Ice Skating — Bde Maka Ska, S. Mpls, MN | Minnesota Rovers Outdoors Club

Ice Skating — Bde Maka Ska, S. Mpls, MN

Tue, 10:00am - 11:30amFeb 62024

Max Trip Size: 30 people

Description:

Meet on the lakeside patio at Pimento Jamaican Kitchen on the northeast corner of Bde Maka Ska. (near the pile of bright rental kayaks).

https://maps.app.goo.gl/z6w4nqvYtnPUakkF8?g_st=im

There is some free on-street parking nearby and there is a city pay lot on the north end of Bde Maka Ska with plenty of parking. (5 minute walk) The pay kiosk on the west end of the lot didn’t work on Sunday, but the MPLS Parking app worked. I didn’t look at the pay kiosk on the east end of the parking lot.

You can recognize me by my bright green coat.

Take advantage of this rare combination of thick, smooth ice and warm air temperatures!! Skating has been great!!

Bring:
Ice skates
Blade guards to walk on a short stretch of sidewalk under one of the bridges
Cross country ski poles, if you like to use them
Foam pad if you want something warm to sit on the ice when you put on your skates.
Thermos of something warm to drink, if you want.

The plan is to skate for about 90 minutes.

This will be a fun/social skate, not a hard training skate. After skating for a while on Bde Maka Ska, we can decide as a group whether to skate through the channels to any of the other connected lakes, or stay on Bde Maka Ska. On Sunday we skated through the whole chain of lakes to Brownie and it was a lot of fun!

There is no warming house, so wear warm clothes!

After skating, anyone who’s interested can walk or skate to Pimento Jamaican Kitchen for something to eat and/or drink.

I have skated in the past week on Lake Nokomis, Lake Harriet, Bde Maka Ska, Lake of the Isles, Cedar Lake, Brownie Lake, and Bush Lake. The ice is PLENTY thick to be safe…11-12” on Bde Maka Ska, 6” on Cedar Lake, and somewhere in between for the rest of the lakes. The smoothest ice Saturday and Sunday was on the northwest quadrant of Bde Maka Ska. But it was skatable almost everywhere else, including the channels between lakes.

I’ve been using my new Nordic skate blades attached to my skate ski boots and they’ve been great. But I saw lots of other people having fun with hockey skates and figure skates. I’ve been using my cross country ski poles for more efficiency and to go faster at times. Poles also make it a little easier to push through occasional short stretches of bumpier ice, but they’re not necessary.

There is a porta potty at the parking lot, and indoor public bathrooms on the east side of the Pimento Jamaican Kitchen building.

If you want to see some more pictures and videos from the Rovers skate outing on Sunday, here’s a link to the activity on Strava:
https://strava.app.link/R3bXGDkUVGb

Craig Wiklund

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Craig W.

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