12-11-2010, 08:39 PM
I've always worried about freak occurrences (you never know when an asteroid will hit the ice in from of you) though the the ice I was on was always well over five inches, most of the time it was probably almost a foot thick. One thing I did to calm myself down was to make a device to help climb out, basically two ice picks tied together (one ice pick and one really sharp phillips head). I made sure it was easy to reach and safe from stabbing me.
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