If the hill is not sufficiently steep or the grass too long, or the outdoor temperatures too cold, ice blocking will not work.
In Fresno, California the sport has been embraced by high school students, who frequent parks during late night hours in an effort to evade law enforcement officers.
Ice blocking was once a very popular night time activity at Hillcrest Park in Fullerton, California, but has subsided since its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s.
The sport has a long-standing tradition at Southern Nazarene University (Bethany, Oklahoma), where the Student Government Association holds the event annually.
This episode showed the polygamist family spending an afternoon picnic ice blocking at a park.