Example of candling ice

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JoAnn Berns

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Candled ice will be coming eventually with warmer (higher) sun & temps, as he notes.

One key thing to know is that if you go through candled ice, it may be extremely difficult to get back onto the ice because the force of pushing on it while trying to self-rescue may cause it to continue to break in front of you. Throw rope rescues may also be impacted, I would think.

Also see:

http://lakeice.squarespace.com/candled-ice/

An indicator of candled ice may be "corn ice," which is risky in its own right:

http://lakeice.squarespace.com/corn-ice/

Perhaps others may wish to share their knowledge of, and experience with, these conditions.