This sounds like it has an interesting story behind it...

Or you could wear hook and loop on all your flies.
http://io9.com/5103371/the-doctor-isnt-the-only-nerd-who-goes-to-prom

I recommend Jack London's "To Build a Fire" for a sobering overview of falling in the creek during winter.

Frozen into your frozen clothing. This is why I want to see "Survivor: Siberia"

the one time I wore a skirt, outside of theater or Halloween, was after I feel into a half frozen creek and the house I ended up in to warm up only had one thing that would serve as an interim clothing article. Not uncomfortable, but if it was social acceptable for guys to wear skirts I still think it would only be an at-home thing.

Beverly, I've thought about that before. They would never do it because the contestants can't prance around half nekkid (or totally nekkid if you're the winner of first season) in the tundra.

Pear Head, although my post does sort of beg the question, there really isn't much more to my story.

The ice broke, I fell in, then I decided to pull myself out and go home to wrestle my frozen boots off.

The whole thing was worthwhile, though, just to hear about Edgeways wearing a skirt.

crick. It's a crick.

This time it was a creek. There's a difference.

I'd like everyone to know, if you get caught in a current in the ocean, SWIM TO THE SIDE not towards shore, to get out of it. This factoid may save your life.

There's a crick in the creek; or is that a creek in the crick. I use "crick", "stream", "river", and depending on the conversation, "waterway". Definitely "crick", though, for the smaller, but continuous, waterways that tend to be overgrown with brush. Larger than that, it becomes a stream.

As for getting to the laces quickly, I totally agree. It's one of those things that most people don't think about.

As for "Survivor: Siberia". Naa. I like my plate served honest; "Survivorman" or "Man vs. Wild".

Funny, just realized my last comment was loaded with unintentional sexual inuendos. Please ignore :)

The guy on Survivorman is a total tool. But Bear Grylls on Man vs Wild knows what he's doing. He had to cross a stream in the dead of winter, so he did what any sane person would do. He simply stripped naked, threw his dry clothes across and jumped into the water. While it was a bit of a shock to the system after he got across he had the advantage of being able to change into dry clothes. let this be a lesson to you Paul.

That is an unfair comparison. Bear Grylls has God on his side.

I understand the difference between crick and creek, but what I don't understand is the difference between "to the side" and "toward the shore."

Oh, wait. That's the ocean, not a frozen creek. I get it now.

In all seriousness, I don't understand why some people traveling to Minneapolis say they are going "up" to the cities.

(Side note: I may have mentioned that little conundrum in a different thread).

Though unrelated to Duluth, I'm agreeing with rex. Bear is SAS trained and has a backup medical/camera team, whereas Les doesn't. I like both of them. Bear shows you what to do if you are severely impaired and have to risk life and limb to get somewhere. Les is a little more humble and demonstrates how hard it is to survive carrying camera gear and making shots on the route.

Yup, Barrett, there's no swimming in frozen creeks. My daughter got caught in an ocean current last year, tried to swim towards shore, could not. Luckily some kid on a boogie board came to her rescue. Afterwards, her ocean-savvy auntie told her to swim to the side to get out of the current. But the kid says her ocean-swimming days are over. I'd rather fall into a frozen creek myself.

The same thing can happen in Lake Superior. Riptide currents.

Swimming "to the side" means swimming parallel to the shoreline. This is important to know, because Lake Superior gets riptides.

Riptides. Lake Superior gets them.

Hey, remember that show, "Riptide"? It was awful.