Be freakin careful snowmobiling on rivers...

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Sorry to hear that man. I grew up on a really wide section of the Ottertail River near Fergus Falls, and right next to a small bridge. The wide sections of river always were frozen extremely hard, the ice under the bridge was always questionable. I can only remember walking out on it a handful of times in my life, and we were super careful to verify its thickness (it was often clean ice under there, you could literally measure with your eyes). Needless to say, snowmobiles would rip through there regardless, and often there was open water or ice. I would always watch people to see if anyone would go too slow through there, always thought about having to dial 911 and run down there.