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| I drove out on LBDN one day to do some fishing. New to the area, I followed the "road" out to the shanties I saw from shore. Drive right past the hotel onto the ice, how cool! 300 yards from shore, maybe 500. Set up the shanty and then a tip up. Fish! Slow, but fish, and very nice walleyes by my standards at 18"-20". Wind starts blowing, some snow, it gets dark. By the time I pack up, its real dark. Let's roll. Guess, what? No "road" anymore, its all windblown snow, and dang I guess it did snow some when I was in the shanty because there's even drifts. And it's still snowing because I can't see lights on shore anymore, anywhere. Do I have a compass, or am I an idiot. Idiot. Shiiiiit. No phone. Well, the winds was blowin' from the NW, right? Um...they were, I guess. Jeeze, it's snowing harder. Gotta find that hotel, that's where I got on the ice. More snow flying now, from brights to dims. Drive drive drive drive drive STOP!!!!! Cattails in the headlights, 10 fom the front of the truck. Sheeeeet, that don't look right. Walk out to see if I can get thru and no way there's a steep hill past the tails. Back to the truck, turn left and try to stay close to what I hope will remain the shoreline. Just keep it to the right, right? I immediatly lose the shoreline and I'm back out on the open ice again, plowing thru drifts that are getting alarmingly bigger. Creeping along at 5mph now, it's really snowing. Keep the wind to my right quarter panel and just go. I can spend the night out here if I have to, got a half a tank of gas for the truck and I can stay warm with the Coleman lantern on low if I just keep the windows open some. Got a full half gallon of Coleman fuel. I'll live as long as I don't foollishly drive all the way out of the bay into the open big water. No matter what, don't panic and go slow, stop if I have to and don't leave the vehicle. But I sure don't like this situation.
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