Lots of Ice, Lots of Swimming

A person skated onto this rotten snow ice filled folded ridge and stumbled for three steps before breaking through just short of the far side. At least four people have fallen through this ridge even though there are several easy ways around it.

New England has been enjoying a warm and, at least recently, low snow winter.  There has been lots of good ice and lots of dodgy ice.  Here in Northwestern Vermont we have had several weeks of very good skating and sailing.  Malletts Bay has had very good ice over two weeks.  The Inland Sea, just to the north has been full of holes, areas of thin ice and open water.  So far I know of eleven people who fell through.  In all cases, with the benifit of hindsight, they could have/should have recognized problems.