Went to a half frozen lake with rotten ice on it for a little fishing. Like the other day, the fishing sucked so I decided to make the girlfriend suffer by "being a boy" with new boat. I only wish the camera battery didn't die or I would have more footage.

One thing I noticed, motor performance sucked at 5K feet. I didn't want to get out the gps because it would have made me sad. I now know at least a little bit more about my limitations, I figure I will be able to run in a couple inches of hard water and then use my boat and motor to clear a gigantic hole for the birds to drop in to. It will be awesome.



Here is me deciding if running through two or three inches of rotten ice is a good idea.

It didn't seem to matter how far I trimmed it down, the prop was still grinding ice like a blender and I suspect that is probably not the best for it but it was fun watching those chunks fly. This is the first thing I ever put on youtube, going to get a video camera soon and hopefully get some better footage.

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Can't seem to figure out how to get the utube video to show up in the thread. Any help on that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ZkJHzRjWk

Benny thanks for the post! You sure live in a very lovely area. I'm sure there are ways to improve your mm performance in high altitude areas. Someone will be able to help you out. I bet there is alot of Lewis and Clark history where you at???
Thanks
Randy

Benny, 4 inches of rotten ice is cake...wait until you get more stick time on the Hyper, you sail a goose 100 yards into the ice in Cougar Bay and to the horror then amazement of everyone else hunting Cougar, you "go for it" and chew your way through 2 or 3 inches of hard ice to get the bird.

The hardest part about that trick is 180ing the boat to get back out...unless you have Full Power Reverse . Actually, a thrown anchor and a push pole does a pretty good job of breaking it up for you "forward only" types.

I love slinging me some ice.