I was hooking my way up a picked-out and crowded frozen waterfall at Wild Basin on Sunday when the climber next to me yelled:
“Ice ice ice ICE!”
You yell “ice!” a lot when you’re ice climbing. It’s usually a fairly casual warning for the folks around you: I am swinging an ice axe into this frozen [...]
Filed under: Such as it is on February 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
long time no haiku.
if you don’t use it, you lose
it — haiku muscle.
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One of the reasons I haven’t written much here this winter is that I’ve taken up two new winter sports.
I’m from Missouri, a land that sees more ice and freezing rain than snow. We stay inside in the winter. The only sliding around on the white stuff we do is on a saucer sled (or [...]
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