Northwestern Vermont Ice Incident Report-2012 Season

This picture looks nnw at the tracks from the truck in incident #13 as they approached the pressure ridge. Missisquoi Bay, Alberg VT..

Summary: We had a relatively short, low snow season.  This resulted in a lot of skating and other activities.  The 18 incidents represent most but not all incidents.  There were many more  partial breakthroughs involving vehicles with quick recoveries (mostly 4 wheelers).  Fold down ridges were involved in almost half the incidents.  There were two serious injuries (concussion and broken hip).  We do not have a good enough estimate of the number of participants to make reasonable estimates of incident rates.

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