Bushcraft adventure: Making a fire on a frozen lake

Revolverrodger

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I went out with my dad and my son for the day and we hiked to a frozen beaver lake. We made a fire on the lake and cooked a stew for lunch.
Good family times !

[video=youtube;ru6j_jPfgVM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru6j_jPfgVM[/video]
 
Wow, fire on ice, that'd scare me. Looks like an amazing time though.
ice over here is barely thick enough to walk on in winter, how thick does the ice need to be to do this safely?
 
The ice was about 8 inches thicknso no problem
After the fire was done we looked how much ice was melted under... I was surprised to see maybe only 0.25 inch melted
 
I don't mean to be a bum out or anything but fires on ice aren't a great idea. Ashes do wonders for the Natural Ph levels of the lake in the spring. I'm not saying you just did even anything to the lake with your single fire but alas the wonders of YouTube and everyone feeling a need to do what they saw to show off with friends I can see this being an issue in populated areas.



I'll just leave this here.

http://ontariofishingcommunity.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=50523
 
I think steel factories around a lake do harm... I don't think a fire will do squat all. But I'm not a scientist. BTW that thread you linked to didn't have much info at all
 
bore said:
I think steel factories around a lake do harm... I don't think a fire will do squat all. But I'm not a scientist. BTW that thread you linked to didn't have much info at all
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I'm not really knocking A single fire, but no no info at all. Not even a copied email from the MNR saying not to do it.
 
Yeah but they were also saying the same thing for on land as well. Didn't read anything about Ph levels whatever that is
 
dunno why anyone was surprised at the small crater of melting, either. Hot air rises, man. Massive amounts of ice "keep" all summer if not in the sun.
 
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