Small frozen streams that one can jump across or just a bit too far to jump are major travelways. I like them.
Walking on ice cover streams/ponds/lakes or shelf ice one must use common sense.
jaspr, you brought back memorys...We lived near a crick. We kids would put on our skates at home, walk over the the crick and skates to the end of town where the fire company had an ice skating pond. We skated all day then skated back up the crick to home. After several years, fire company installed electric lights around the pond, so we skated day and night.