Warning for Sask. Sledders.

[heavy d]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/180633982953/permalink/10152786593047954/

 

[Lightningmike]

Whats this about. Link wouldnt open for me as I am not on facebook.

 

[sledneck_03]

Whats this about. Link wouldnt open for me as I am not on facebook.

it was just an ice heave on emma lake north of prince albert. Its nothing big, we get them on Candle lake all the time, big enough to drive a truck under some times. You just have to watch......no different than looking for holes, rivers, cliffs in the mountains. Only issue is people get on the lake and pin it up to 90-100 mph and hit one and total sled and get super hurt.

 

[Lightningmike]

Ok. Thanks a bunch. Was at Tobin a couple years ago and saw the same thing.

Ride safe everyone.

 

[Rotax_Kid]

We get similar on Good Spirit the odd year. With the flat light it can be fairly unnoticeable until you are right at it. Seen as tall as 6' some years on that lake.

 

[MK4TDI]

Lots of traffic on that lake, things can go bad real quick dealing with ice heaves.

 

[Jay845]

Looks like decent snow on the lake. Any idea what the areas in the bush/trails look like?

 

[Ministik Man]

We get some nasty 3' mud/ice heave too
One guy hit one and broke both knees and hips and was air lifted by stars
Totaled the new sled - like hitting a brick wall at 100km -- the sled stops dead if you hit the down under slope of the heave -- if you hit the up slope you are air born and crashing anyways -- no win..

We tell everyone "if you want to race -- lay a track across the lake making sure there are no heaves and then race back down your OWN track"

 

[kovs]

Emma usually never has a ice heave is the thing so most people never think of that on this lake


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[Lightningmike]

Emma usually never has a ice heave is the thing so most people never think of that on this lake


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Thats what I was thinking that lake isnt big enough to usually get chit like that.

 

[MK4TDI]

I'm thinking the Lakeland Snowmobile Club will have that marked fairly well as there are a few trails that go across the lake. I'm just not sure if the making starts when the grooming does. That heave there ight be bad new for the holiday nonsense that goes on in that area.... As kovs said, heaves are rare on Emma. I've come across small ones on Christopher which is the neighbouring lake, but nothing that big.

 

[Couch]

We tell everyone "if you want to race -- lay a track across the lake making sure there are no heaves and then race back down your OWN track"

Great advice ... how many people get busted up each year flying across a lake / field that they have no idea whats buried under ... stumps / rocks / ice ledges

 

[adamg]

Last winter it was irrigation ditches around Saskatoon that killed people.

 

[meierjn]

Seen some big ones on Pigeon Lake as well. Would be NASTY if a person was to hit them.