In March, '75, friend and I were snowmobiling in woods west of The Soo, MI,
on a Saturday morning. At 50 MPH, I broke out of the woods onto an expanse
of white; noticed that surface under me seemed to be undulating slightly;
suddenly realized that US Coast Guard ice breaker 200 to 300 yards in front
of me was cutting a channel in Lake Superior and that I was on the lake with
'em and the undulation I was feeling was likely wave action. I maintained
full throttle and did a skidding 180 to get back on solid ground.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Bennell" <rbenn...@bennell.ca>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: neighborhood
The daughter of some folks we know and her boyfriend drowned in a
snowmobile accident in the Whiteshell Park, years ago - around 1985, I
think. They found his body in the spring but did not find her body for
years. That part made it worse for her poor parents. They were out at
night on Valentine's Day and probably got a bit lost. It is thought that
they were likely one bay over from where they intended to be and ran into
open water. Can you imagine what that must have been like?
Randy
On 18/02/2014 8:17 AM, Curt Raymond wrote:
I suppose you wouldn't let me snowmobile down the street either...
The big advantage of a redneck town. Sunday I was out snowmobiling for 5
hours. Took off right from the house, down our dead end street about 100
yards, turn right, about 200 yards down Mill street, turn left, 100 yards
down Murdock street until it becomes a long driveway for a furniture
factory, another 300 yards or so to the real trails. We rode all over...
One very scary place we accidentally crossed open water. Well it wasn't
open water for the FIRST guy. He broke the ice, his girlfriend went to
the right and caught mostly solid ice. The third guy hit completely open
water in the center, next guy went right and caught ice under his right
ski and water under the left. I went left, ice under the left ski and
water under the right. It all happened so fast there was no time to avoid
it without making things worse. See the water, hit the throttle and SKIP
and we were across. Only maybe 15' of water... On the way back we hugged
the shoreline until we could find somewhere with significant ice to
cross. Fortunately I didn't have to change my shorts, couldn't stand up
right away though, my butt was gripping the seat.
-Curt
_______________________________________
http://www.okiebenz.com
To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/
To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
_______________________________________
http://www.okiebenz.com
To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/
To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
