Scary Stuff

[Guru57]

So 5 us left Brainerd Friday morning and headed for Red to hook up with 6 others on our annual ice trip. We hit the iced over Kabekona bridge and lost it. The Ice Castle whipped around and hit the side of the truck and ripped off. The truck hit the guard rail, hard, and spun a few time before hitting the ditch. The Ice Castle rolled and we just missed the semi coming in the other direction. We were all really shook up and bruised but other than that in pretty good shape. Both the truck and ice house appeared to be totaled. Our two other friends from the Cities brought and extra vehicle and picked us up in Walker 3 hours later and after salvaging what we could we made it to Red about 5:30. We rented a second house from Lonnie at Northbound Rentals (who gave us the totaled Ice House good guy rate) and spent the rest of the weekend in sleepers. Fishing was slow but at that point we were just happy to be alive and with friends.

[chaffmj]

Glad to hear that everybody was ok. It is also good to see that you didn't let it stop you from the task at hand.

[efgh]

You guys are what I would call hard core fishermen.

[leech~~]

Yep Friday was not good. I drove up to Ely from the cities on glare ice most of they way. But I drove "get-there-speed" which was 40-45mph for me and made it there and back without slipping around to bad. I counted at least 12 cars and trucks in the ditches along the way. One was a truck with two sleds on a trailer and as he flew by me earlier, I said to myself "see you in the ditch" and I did. Slow down with a trailer on, they like to swing around!