Outdoor Hockey

[Wallzy41 9]

I had the opportunity to go skate at a friend's house last winter, and when I asked if I was allowed to skate, they told me I was allowed to come down any time I wanted to. They have a pond in their backyard from an error when the state installed a new road to expand a highway, and freeze it over and maintain it for skating. I wanted to know where you like to skate outside, and what you like to do when you skate outside.

[Wallzy41 9]

Also, Please feel free to add stories from your outdoor experiences.

[simnorm 2]

I play outdoor hockey at a city park. In Quebec City, there's a rink next to almost every public elementary schools.

They're open till 10pm every night. They already started working on the one by my house, it should be ready within a couple of days. :D

We usually play 5-5 with subs, no goalie. The rinks are usually smaller than NHL size.

[AIREAYE 248]

there was a rather large house construction site in my neighbourhood and the rainwater collected into a huge shallow pond, played some shinny in th emiddle of downtown Mississauga :P

[number21 3]

Milwaukee maintains a little flooded soccer field. Not sure if they started working on it over the last week once the cold set it. I think they wait until January to do it. They allow hockey at night I am hoping to get out there this winter.

I have heard of a few other places in the greater milwaukee area that I'd like to try.

Next year I really want to get up to the USA pond hockey tourney in Eagle River WI.

[Skoda10 14]

At my folks house in VT they have a small pond. I didn't start skating until I was older, 12 -13ish, and spent most weekends with a couple of friends just screwing around on that pond. It wasn't a huge surface, but it was enough for 2-4 people to have a lot of fun on.

It's funny, if I went out alone my mom made me tie this thick rope around my waste and attach it to a big weeping willow tree on the bank. She was obsessed with me falling through the ice and drowning. I did bust through one time, but near the shore getting a puck out of the weeds. Froze my skate laces solid. I had to walk home in them and sit by the fire for a while to get them thawed enough to take off.

Once I joined the high school team I kind of just stopped playing on the pond. Once we could drive we'd go to an outdoor rink that the next town over would setup in the town clerks parking lot. They'd flood half the lot and had a little warming hut. We'd have kids from the HS team, and friends that couldn't skate just running around in their boots.

If you went late at night (they had the lights from the parking lot) you could have the whole rink to yourselves.