01-19-2020, 06:06 PM
Good Morning,
It was only in the launch channel. There didn't appear to be safe ice anywhere else on this end of the lake.
If I was guessing, which I am, I would say the ice was 4 to 5 inches thick. In the launch area, the water depth is less than 5 feet at the best of times. No danger of drowning here, unless you are very short and no one else is around.
A good place to catch fish and take the kids.
1 downside; the toilets in the park are closed during the winter and no port-a-potties available. I have whined to the county Commissioners and the Utah Lake Commission about this, but my words fell on deaf ears. I believe this is the case at Provo State Park as well. The claim is that the indoor toilets water pipes will freeze. Certainly would be the case, but portable toilets wouldn't.
Did you ever notice how short-sighted politicians and bureaucrats are? Everyone advocates using Utah Lake and the parks that surround it and spends a bunch of money promoting it, but does little or nothing to make trips there pleasurable during the winter months. It confuses me, but I am old and easily
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It was only in the launch channel. There didn't appear to be safe ice anywhere else on this end of the lake.
If I was guessing, which I am, I would say the ice was 4 to 5 inches thick. In the launch area, the water depth is less than 5 feet at the best of times. No danger of drowning here, unless you are very short and no one else is around.
A good place to catch fish and take the kids.
1 downside; the toilets in the park are closed during the winter and no port-a-potties available. I have whined to the county Commissioners and the Utah Lake Commission about this, but my words fell on deaf ears. I believe this is the case at Provo State Park as well. The claim is that the indoor toilets water pipes will freeze. Certainly would be the case, but portable toilets wouldn't.
Did you ever notice how short-sighted politicians and bureaucrats are? Everyone advocates using Utah Lake and the parks that surround it and spends a bunch of money promoting it, but does little or nothing to make trips there pleasurable during the winter months. It confuses me, but I am old and easily
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