Warning: Moose Ahead ; Northern Sweden Offers the Pleasures of Snow and Ice Without the Mountains and Melted Cheese
Evening Standard - London › November 05, 2004
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THEY have a brutal method of gauging the thickness of the ice in northern Sweden. "You stick a chainsaw in it until water comes out," says Marco Odestrand, who runs a winter ice-driving school out on the Baltic Sea by the summer resort of Pitea.
According to Marco, 10cm is enough to drive on - although you have to be careful not to go too fast because that might create a bow wave of water underneath the ice and cause it to fracture up ahead. I am happy to report that on the day I chose, with temperatures -20C, the ice was 40-50cm thick and so strong that 30- ton timber lorries were driving backwards and forwards to the archipelago that lies just offshore.See the full content of this document
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Warning: Moose Ahead ; Northern Sweden Offers the Pleasures of Snow and Ice Without the Mountains and Melted Cheese
Miraculously, Marco's old Ford Escort, which had been left out overnight on the frozen sea, started first time, and I spent a mad half-hour doing handbrake wheelies like a middle-aged car-jacker before I felt the need to liste...
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