So glad that it all worked out for you guy's. I never had the misfortune to have gone thru the ice but have seen quite a few who did and several snow mobiles, atv's and even a wind board, go in the drink. In the Spring we use to use an extention ladder to extend from the bank out to the ice when it started to recede from the banks. We would get a few extra weeks of ice fishing doing this. I really miss not being able to go anymore! EB