thoughts standing on Lake Erie, frozen all the way to Canada

Thanks. I have a friend who made it to within a mile of Canada, but then he and his hiking partner encountered a slip of open water that apparently ran the length of the lake. They looked for a passage. Finding none, they spent the night on the ice and walked back to Erie, PA the next day. He told me his wife was livid that he did something like that. It was the classic "Old-enougn-to-know-better" argument.