"Ice skating on Trout Lake will last until the ice is deemed unsafe and too thin. Keep an eye on signage and respect the Park Board if they decide to close it again. You wouldn’t want to deal with another Polar Bear swim!
The Park Board has not said whether other ponds and lakes in the city, like Stanley Park’s Lost Lagoon and the pond on Granville Island, are safe to skate on yet.
According to the park board, the last time Vancouver’s lake and ponds were safe for public skating was in 1996."
As kids we used to ride our bikes down to Trout Lake and go swimming. Local legend was that it was a "bottomless" lake and kids were known to have drowned and their bodies never found. When I googled trying to find out something about this, nothing came up. Probably something some kid made up. One of the locations I taught swimming at as a Sun Swim Instructor was Trout Lake and I remember when the kids did the "deadman's float" they pretty much disappeared because it was so murky.
If Lost Lagoon gets ok'd for skating it will be fun to watch the skaters from our window. I would prefer things warm up!
