Lake is clearly walkable

errlloyd

What do you guys reckon, to me it seems obvious that its walkable.

There are a couple of heavy traffic cones that people threw quite far out, they barely dented the ice, they're fairly heavy, surely the impact of them hitting would be greater the gently applied weight of a relatively light human?

They were breaking the ice around the edges with a mini-digger today must have been 4 inches thick!!

jripper

I think people carried the cones out, there were footsteps out to as far as the fountain about 2 weeks ago. So yeah, it was walkable, not sure if it is now though. Wouldn't want to deter you from giving it ago (and from providing the students with some comedy if you fell in) but it has been consistently cold since the initial freeze up. So yeah it must still be walkable, sure give it a go!

RandolphEsq

Go for it, the ice won't break

meathstevie

And the folks in Vincent's are excellent at treating hypothermia, that's when you can be lifted out quick enough that is.

delta_bravo

The lake froze over and thawed a bit so what has now frozen again is fractured and would have cracks underneath. As far as I know the lake is a few feet deep so it would be a completely stupid idea. Someone died doing something similar up north last week

TDOie

UCD, home to Ireland's brightest students. Christ, if immigration doesn't pick up we're all fecked.

Wolfe Tone

Cycle a bike out on it! Walking is for wimps

noodler

Honest to god, if you went under and couldn't find exactly where you had fallen in again you would be trouble on the way back up if you were unable to break a new hole out.

Blacey

errlloyd wrote: »

What do you guys reckon, to me it seems obvious that its walkable.

There are a couple of heavy traffic cones that people threw quite far out, they barely dented the ice, they're fairly heavy, surely the impact of them hitting would be greater the gently applied weight of a relatively light human?

They were breaking the ice around the edges with a mini-digger today must have been 4 inches thick!!

Why don't you go check it out? Survival of the fittest and all that...

happy_feet

ah, sure give it a go. If you fall in, and manage to get back out without drowning/hypothermia, you have a tetanus injection and hefty fine to look forward too!

win win situation....

AkiThePirate

Just know the it's thinner at the edge.

My roommate fell in waist deep standing on the ice near the edge on a very cold day.

Ficheall

AkiThePirate wrote: »

Just know the it's thinner at the edge.

My roommate fell in waist deep standing on the ice near the edge on a very cold day.

So the OP should jump out as far as they can, is that what you're getting at?

AkiThePirate

Ficheall wrote: »

So the OP should jump out as far as they can, is that what you're getting at?

If they fancy demonstrating the mechanism of natural selection, then yes.
I was just making a general observation pertinent to walking on the lake.