26.05.12
Although ice anglers may be itching to get out on enclosure
reservoirs and lakes, they’re being warned that warm weather and
high winds have caused protean conditions.
One man towing a trailer with his all-terrain vehicle at the
south end of Gorge Ferry Reservoir on Sunday afternoon broke
through the ice, but Hannah Ticknor, who works at the Silos RV Garden
and Store, said the unidentified man wasn’t injured. Ticknor warns
that while the ice is a virtuousness 10 inches thick in some places on the
reservoir, it’s not that way throughout.
“The lake is a little treacherous sensibly now if you don’t know
what you’re doing,” Ticknor said. “There’s plain water by the
pressure ridges and the thickness depends on where you’re at.”
Pressure ridges are areas of get going water or thin ice where the
ice has cracked and heaved due to expansion from freezing.
Last February, Gregory Elliott of Townsend hew down through the ice
near the Silos while driving on Canyon Ferry in a Dodge pickup.
Another man and a boy who were in the conveyance were able to get out
of the water; Elliott, 51, came to the surface twice, then sank
back down. His core was recovered four days later.
Source: Helena Independent Record