Be Cautiously Adventurous
“It’s never solid ice,” Holt said Friday morning, after noticing posts on social media showing people climbing on the ice near the Grand Haven piers and even walking on the frozen river between the piers. “It’s always unstable. There’s no time of year when that’s safe.
“On Lake Michigan, right now, the back side of the shelf ice is carved out by wave action,” Holt said. “It looks solid from shore, but people get out on top of it and don’t realize what they’re on is severely undercut. They end up in Lake Michigan, and there’s no way they can rescue themselves. They might be standing in chest-deep water, but they can’t get out. They get extremely hypothermic, and you can’t see them from shore.”
Did you take that pic?
No, lol, you sit on the beach and watch a steady line of people walking out there all day in the summer. I walked it once to see what the big deal was, for me there wasn't any...lol. The urge will never hit me twice in a lifetime let alone treading through four feet of snow at the tail end of a freezing cold polar vortex . Everyone inland a couple counties from the lake shore was still buried in snow on Friday, that being right upon the lake those people did some serious treading of snow to go out there, seems the only one with an ounce of brains stayed back a ways to take that picture.
Couldn't you take it with a zoom lens? lol
Yes it could be. When you look at it from where it starts someone would have to have been standing close by yet on the frozen surface of the water if taken with a cell phone whereas a zoom lens could have produce the same distance from the starting point to the people without being on the water.