By dtam on Skatehive
It was a beautiful day to check out Lake Champlain. It was tough for me, walking on the uneven and slippery snow with my hurt leg, but it was worth it to get some of these beautiful views. Its not every year that Lake Champlain freezes, because it is a massive lake. But this has been a cold winter, and the news broke recently that it was frozen all the way across. That means you could walk from Vermont across to New York. My friend, Ed, from Savannah, was here visiting so I thought this would be a good opportunity to go check out the lake. There is a big causeway, or dike, that creates an inner Mallets Bay from the outer lake. It takes about a half mile from the parking lot to make it out for views of the lake. The trail was covered in snow, as was the lake. Looking out across the lake we could see a few vehicles. Zooming in with our cameras, we noticed that they were actually large pickup trucks, next to little pop-up tents. It was people ice fishing, way out on Lake Champlain. The sk