Thinnest Amount of Ice You've Been On

[Tank_Guy#3]

I made this thread because of the "Do you dislike winter?" thread. The topic is simple, what's the thinnest amount of ice you've been on?

I personally have ice fished with my grandpa and uncle on about 2.5-3 inches of ice. No cracking or breaking at all, I weigh about 150, my uncle about 175, and my grandpa about 200 lbs. We stood fairly close to each other and the ice held firm. We were quite a ways from the channel of the river though.

We stayed there for about 3-4 hours, we only caught the beers we threw to each other.

 

[IglooDame]

No idea how thick the ice on the lake was, but I drove my car all over it.

(Big Lake, Alaska - they use the lake for extra roadway in the winter, accessible to vehicles through boat launching ramps.)

 

[von_Seydlitz]

The thinner the ice, the braver the one that even dares to break it, in order to look how thick it is...
But I remember of having fallen into the lake of a granduncle, when I was 8 or sth like that.

 

[magritte]

I fell through ice taking a short cut through a marsh during winter once. I was only 10, so the ice was pretty damn thin.

The water was only about 2 feet deep fortunately, so I was able to pull myself out, but I was still really, really cold when I got home.

 

[De Lorimier]

No idea, but pretty slim.

I grew up in southern Québec, miles away from Ontario and the US border. Every winter, the city builds a decent ice rink near the school and it was faster for me to go on the frozen river instead of making a detour for the bridge. This used to make my mom crazy. We would walk on the thinniest crust of ice, sometimes in a mix of snow and water, to go skate and play hockey.

I also did something else pretty fun on ice: racing. My brother used to (and still does sometimes) race on the frozen St-Lawrence river with beaten up cars wich we refered to as minoune. Once in a while when I was sixteen and seventeen years old, I would take the steering wheel and participate in a race or two. It's actually really fun to drive on a frozen river, smashing in other cars. Yes, I was a redneck for a short time, and I'm not ashamed of it!

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Delormier: don't be ashamed of being a redneck. I am also one according to Jeff Foxworthy's definition of one (glorious lack of sophistication). You ever go mudding? You know taking a truck onto a muddy field and doing doughnuts and all sorts of fun stuff.

Igloodude: if you live by what your user name is, the ice was plenty thick !!! But I would have to say that the ice had to be around 8-12 inches thick.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I live in Alabama. The only ice I see comes in cubes and makes my sweet tea cold.

 

[logical_psycho]

I don't know, never measured it, I know I laughed my ass off when my sister fell into a hole in the ice on the pond near my house. Now I'm older though I realize I should be happy that she was able to climb out of it herself, being like 8 years old. It just looked like a seal came out of the water though, haha. Nothing bad happened so at least I can laugh about it now.

 

[Irish Caesar]

I live in Alabama. The only ice I see comes in cubes and makes my sweet tea cold.

Sweet tea...one of the mysteries of the South I have yet to figure out...

I've put my foot through some ice on a pond (quite accidentally) when I was old enough to know better, but I was wearing waterproof hiking boots and my foot stayed warm and dry. Other than that, I pretty much stick to the thick ice. That is, thicker than arm's length.

 

[bhsup]

@Irish Caesar: Sweet iced tea is the only cultured, proper way to drink tea. Forget what the British say!

Now regarding the thinnest ice I've ever been on. I know this isn't how you really meant your question to be taken, but I'd have to say that bridge I drove over that developed a micro thin sheet of ice one night and caused me to have a wild spinout. Quite exciting!

 

[Irish Caesar]

Sorry, my friend, but I'm not a tea drinker. Here at this fine Institute of learning, they push Coca-Cola far more strongly than sweet tea.

 

[ironduck]

I've gone through a few times, although only with a leg here and there. Once was out skiing on a river - a long trip home! The ice rarely gets really thick here, but that doesn't discourage me too much from going out after testing it a bit. The trick is only to go out when it's below zero celsius if the ice is thin, and to stay away from areas where the water is likely to be warmer, such as around reeds. And don't forget to bring some kind of ice pick that you can pull yourself up with if you fall all the way through.

 

[mrtn]

This ice is 5 cm thick (i e 2 inches in American), and that's me. Almost two years ago.

 

[Urederra]

This morning I walked through a slippery ice surface that was only about 2 mm. thick, i guess. let's say, one tenth of an inch, and it was just in front of my house.

Oh, my, how slippery it was!!!

Hopefully, the ice surface was over pavement, not over water

 

[Stevenpfo]

The thinnest ice i've ever been on was when my wife asked me if her pants made her butt look big and I replied that it wasn't the pants...

Joking aside the thinnest ice i've ever been on was when I was 8. Three 8 year olds standing in the middle of a large pond looking for a spot to skate and one went right through. We were very lucky and pulled him out and ran him home. We only got into a little bit of trouble.

 

[Birdjaguar]

The thinnest ice i've ever been on was when my wife asked me if her pants made her butt look big and I replied that it wasn't the pants...

You beat me to it.

 

[Dr. Yoshi]

5 mm, it was on a puddle though.

 

[Perfection]

Probobly my relationship with the mods in Sim City Central.

 

[Sophie 378]

Apart from frozen puddles, only ice rinks.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Probobly my relationship with the mods in Sim City Central.

One of nearly Gestapo scutiny?