Monday, February 12, 2007

Things My Mom is Glad She Doesn't Know I'm Doing...

...include ice climbing. I sent her a text message after letting her know I was OK. My dad's friend, on the other hand, said "it's no question who's kid she is"... so I guess the crampon-wearing side of me is pretty clear.

Anyway, this is actually my second ascent of my first ice climb ever. I was not great... but I did manage to do a little "dry tooling" with rock and ice combined. More pics at the flickr page.

Temperature

Yes, friends, it is officially cold. We may have had some record January highs in the 70's, but it's officially cold. I don't know whether Punxsatawney Phil or Staten Island Chuck were on the money when they said "early spring", but it certainly was a late winter.

This was found on my way to work one morning last week.