Fields of Ice

Went at 2:00 on a Thursday it wasn’t bad I never went ice skating before and I got a hang of it it’s really good for good to spend a new adventure together and they have lockers to put your shoes in. I can’t wait to go at a later time Bc they have lights and a disco let the party go on!

What a wonderful idea having a rink right here in Turlock! I went on a Saturday for their 4pm session. Oh my, what a mistake. It seems like they need to limit the number of skaters allowed, have some policing the children skating horizontally on the ice (instead of in a circle around the edges), and limit the number of people using crutches (some used a PVC pipe frame as a walker to skate and others large stacks of buckets). The walkers took up a lot of room and were terrifying when a child would unexpectedly turn one out in front you. The buckets were worse… children would lose control and they would go rolling across the ice into your path. 95 percent of us skaters and aren’t good enough to avoid these obstacles making them far more dangerous to all then just having people who can’t skate tough it out without the crutch (plus the poor form they’re learning using the crutch isn’t helping).
Finally, the ice itself was destroyed by 5pm. They appear to clean the ice after each two hour session but when I arrived at 4 the edges were pretty bad. By 5 the ice was a mess everywhere. Now not being very good at skating (thus frequently putting too much weight on the front of my foot) this was a huge hazard. The front of your skate catches and you go tumbling forward.
All in all, a nice idea for kids but adults are gonna have a bad time.