Walking on (thick) Ice

Finally feeling good enough to go for a little walk out in the winter wonderland, though I need to take it real easy.

It’s been a wonderful winter and the lake froze early on, but it’s only now that I’m been able to get to it. There is just something so cool about knowing that you are walking on ice, and not like a field, even though the look pretty much the same when covered in snow.

It’s really cute that there are little trails goind across the lake where people go for walks, commute to work, walk their dogs, ski and some mental cases even bike. On one part of the lake there is a natural ice skating track that is blowed open, and I’d really love going on it but I’m not well enough yet. Maybe later this week.

When I first moved to this city some ten years ago, I lived on the other side of the lake and my school was 5 kilometres away and I walked there almost every day. It was a blessing when winter came because it was faster and more pleasant to cross the lake by walking on ice, rather than over the bridge that always felt windy and long and uphill all the way. Gosh I must have been in great shape back then with all that walking! I do still walk quite a lot but nowhere near as much as back then.

Walking has always been my preferred method for moving, unless it’s a longer trip where you need a car. I’m waiting for the perfect sunlit glittery snow day to go for a proper photo walk, now I’m just lazying with the phone.