Sounds on the ice

[briansnat]

If you aren't familiar with ice, the sounds can be unnerving. But when the temps are below freezing, as my dad explained it to me when I was a kid, it is the sound of making ice, meaning the ice getting thicker. As the ice gets thicker it makes a groaning like sound, often very loud. Sometimes you will see and hear it cracking, but that is simply the ice pushing upward as it thickens. It's a good sound.

Consider that you can probably drive a car on 9 inches of ice. You aren't in any danger.

Now if you are on thin ice, ice cracking about you is usually not a good thing.