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Thor_MN

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22. Not much curling on naturally occurring ponds or lakes.

Fri Nov 17, 2017, 01:47 PM

Nov 2017

The surface of the ice is "pebbled", meaning that small drops of water are frozen to the surface of the ice. It's not smooth like a normal ice rink, skating of it would be horrible. If the ice were smooth, the stones would not travel nearly as far. The little bumps of the pebbled ice limit contact (thus friction) with the stones.

Any curling is going to be on a purpose made rink, almost exclusively indoors.

There's one in Daytona Beach, a couple in Atlanta, one in Mississippi - not much in your neck of the woods. There's a dozen or so within 15 miles of my house.

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