Here is a link to an ice thickness safety chart published by the PA Fish & Boat Commission. We used a similar chart on ice safety pamphlets that we have available at the sportsmen shows.

PA Ice Safety Chart

that was a cute chart

Thank you.

Hello to everybody! At this time of the year when the ice is just forming and people are just itching to do some ice fishing, be careful and do not fall through the ice! We are in Southern New England not the north!

Yes, thank EnCon. No matter what I don't
go on the ice unless I got two or 3 big guys walking 10' in front of me.

Great chart but I'd be nervous putting my snowmobiles on 6" of ice!! There are lots of spring holes up here where 2 feet of ice can turn into 2 inches in a hurry. I was cooking along on real good ice a couple years ago and found myself going across a hole about 6 feet across that gave way as I went over!! Luckily I was going fast enough that all I felt was the rear end drop. Talk about stop your heart for a second. I was alone and about 2 miles back on a lake with no one else around. They might have found me in the Spring if I'd bothered to tell the wife where I was going.. Dumb!!

http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/ierd/ice_safety/safety.html


Another useful site.

thank you good info

thanks for the charts. Good info.

I was up on winnepesaukee this weekend and they were landing airplanes on alton bay pretty cool site to see.

Heres a question, how does this chart vary depending on the amount of snow, ice, and water buildup on the ice? Do those variables not come into account pending people going onto the ice? I am just wondering, not being a smartass...

http://www.fish.state.pa.us/icesafe.pdf

FYI,,,,,,,,Link changed to above