While it’s been chilly, the conditions haven’t been right for some outdoor activities.
Snowmobiling was all fun and games for Joel Stirnemann and his father until things took a turn for the worse.
“I started to curve out and I motioned to him. I called for him, I said ‘Get out here, because this ice doesn’t look safe.’ I turned back and he had nose-dived into the ice,” Joel says.
“He kept trying to get out of the ice and kind just like rolled and it just kept breaking underneath him. So he pretty much walked back probably about 150 feet.”
Joel and almost a dozen people have fallen through Houghton Lake this week. Moments after this rescue, Michigan State Police received another call about another snowmobiler that broke through the ice.