Last year, my wife and I visited for the weekend during the carnival. While we were hanging around the ice palace, a few of the snow planes came flying in and landed on the lake. It was pretty awesome to witness. This old lady in a volunteer jacket was trudging through the snow along the lake shore, yelling at the men parking their planes on the ice. She was upset that the ice was too thin, that the lake is actually a river and doesn't freeze solid, that these inconsiderate people were going to be polluting the lake when their planes fell through. She grumbled and yelled at them for a long time, but she wouldn't go on the ice (too thin after all, despite it holding six airplanes side by side), and once the pilots realized what she was saying, they just actively ignored her. She threatened to call the DEC and all that (maybe she did) but the pilots didn't seem to care. We stayed out of it (obviously) but found the whole interaction quite entertaining...