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Uploaded by on Feb 13, 2008

I'm very excited about finding this gorgeous lake to skate on for my first time skating on natural ice! I've been wanting to do this since I was a kid, but no chance of it in Australia... The scenery was beautiful (crappy video quality not doing it justice). The ice was the roughest I've skated on and I'll probably have to get my blades sharpened, but I was due to do that soon anyway. Woo hoo!

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  • thats my dream i always expected the whole like to be open, but i see that only a bit is surfaced.

  • If there was no snow the night before then the whole lake would be cleared! There are some great clips on YT showing beautiful smooth lake ice - one day I'll try that too!

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  • @Amma78 Where on You Tube?

  • @HattieLovesCattie That's exactly what I did, took a train from Innsbruck, but all the way to Reutte, and then found ourselves a taxi driver who took us out to the lake. In summer we went back but this time with a hire car!

  • @Amma78 I've been to Innsbruck and took a train from there to Garmish-Parkenkicken,Germany.M­ost tourists go to the bigger cities.

  • @HattieLovesCattie This was a lake called Plansee in Austria, near the German border. Hardly anyone seems to go there and I pretty much had the place to myself! Even in summer it is quiet and beautiful.

  • @Amma78 What fun that must have been?I have never had an opportunity to skate on real ice.Where in Austria was this?

  • Yeah it was awesome :)

    The owner of a nearby Inn said that the ice was 15cm thick, which was good enough for me! I could hear the occasional crack while I was skating but there were a few other people on the lake who didn't seem worried..

  • That looks like the most heavenly experience anyone could have! How did you ensure the ice was safe?

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