Very interesting stuff! I am also interested to hear more!
I am from GA so not very much experience with this snow/ice stuff. Last year for Christmas we went up to our place in the mountains. From home I had been watching the daily pics of the lake from remote cam and shortly after the pond froze over it had 1'+ snow on top of the ice. When we got there I really wanted to try to ice fish and figured I needed to test the ice before I walked out on it at all. I took an 8' ground rod and walked out onto the peninsula and started poking through the snow to find some ice. There was at least 2' of snow over the ice at that point. I figured I would hit something hard and then see if I could poke the ground rod through it. If I couldn't poke through, then I would dig down to the ice and see what was up. I poked around everywhere off that peninsula and couldn't ever find the "tink tink" I was expecting from hitting a layer of ice. The ground rod was even coming up wet. Needless to say this GA boy was veryyyy confused and too scared to walk off the peninsula at all because it drops straight off into fairly deep water. All I could imagine was me winding up like Forrest Bondurant in the movie Invincible! Lol I still don't understand wth was going on up there.
