{"id":7080,"date":"2020-12-20T20:13:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T01:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2020-12-20T20:20:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T01:20:40","slug":"episode-199-ice-skating-on-the-credit-river-then-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=7080","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 199 ICE SKATING ON THE CREDIT RIVER…THEN DISASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE  199   SKATING ON THE CREDIT RIVER\u2026THEN DISASTER<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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Global warming has made free skating on Lakes and rivers less and less common.   There  was a<\/div>\n
time when  our river, the Credit River, was strung with coloured lights and the ice strengthened with<\/div>\n
flooding.  Ice so strong that a tractor with snow blade could clear long stretches of the river <\/div>\n
from the Port Credit Bridge north into  the wilderness beyond the railway bridge where the <\/div>\n
Go Train thunders by.<\/div>\n

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Was it global warming that ended the river skating?  Or was it some insurance executive who<\/div>\n
pointed our the City liability?  <\/div>\n

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Good news.  There are still chances to skate up the Credit River in certain<\/div>\n
years when the temperature drops  and the snow does  not drop.  Marjorie,<\/div>\n
the Kids and I have grabbed these moments for they are ephemeral.<\/div>\n

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Now that is real skating.  An adventure.  Unlimited  solid ice that seems to have no end.   <\/div>\n

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A hockey game with no boundaries.<\/div>\n

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I am not the best skater.  Not a Gretsky\/  More a dreamer\u2026loving the open ice with no need to stop.<\/div>\n

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My last time on the river ice was not so pleasant.   I was  not as alert as others.  I revved up my speed<\/div>\n
and was just flying over the ice.. No speed limit posted.<\/div>\n

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Then,  WHAM!\u2026I DID A HEAD FIRST DIVE AND LET MY NOSE BE  A RUDDER AND A BRAKE.   What happened? The wind  had blown <\/div>\n
sand on piece of ice.  Enough to stop my skates \u2026 Dead stop.  My body flew  parallel to the ice for a bit then<\/div>\n
my head  angled down and  my nose got the worst of  it.<\/div>\n

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There have been a few days when the Fifth Line of Erin Township has become one long<\/div>\n
skating rink\u2026as Marjorie and  Kevin enjoyed one winter day before the plows arrived.<\/div>\n

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Glare ice on the Fifth line is less and  less  likely these days.  Sand and gravel is spread<\/div>\n
as soon as  the road  gets  icy.  And the snow plows stir it all up.   Must be so, I Guess.<\/div>\n

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FOND MEMORY:  Suppose you are  Given the chance to skate on a river or lake.  Make sure the ice is solid of course.  But grab<\/div>\n
the chance.   Long long ago Russ Vanstone invited a bunch  of  us  loving couples to his Georgian Bay<\/div>\n
cottage when the weather was bitingly cold.  We could  hold hands  and  skate into the blackness of the night.<\/div>\n
\u201cFrom here to Eternity,  Marjorie.”   We  had that moment.  We did not let it slip through our fingers.<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Dec.2020<\/div>\n

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EPISODE  199   SKATING ON THE CREDIT RIVER\u2026THEN DISASTER alan skeoch Dec. 2020 Global warming has made free skating on Lakes and rivers less and less common.   There  was a time when  our river, the Credit River, was strung with coloured lights and the ice strengthened with flooding.  Ice so strong that a tractor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}