Nice Ice for sale. 10¢ a pale.

Not sure why that little Dr. Suess line popped into my head as I started to write this blog post but it is about ice mostly. Gotta love the Doctor. I miss reading his nutty stuff to my kids.

Any way, Saturday was a busy one for me. Grant had a b-ball game at 9:00. I had one at 10:00. The team we played had 3 guys all bigger than me. Their center was about 6'7" and at least 50 pounds heavier than me. It was my job to take him and plug up the middle. I had two fouls in the first few minutes and it wasn't looking like I was going make it through the first half much less the whole game. Their center must have scored between 20 -30 points on me but I felt like I did a decent job defending him 'cause I was on him tight every time and got him to miss more than half the time. I got maybe 12 points and didn't get called for my 5th foul and we pulled out the win. The point of all this is that I was pretty tired/beat but the fun of the day hadn't really started yet.

At noon I met up with Austin Mills to do some ice climbing on the stairway to heaven in Provo Canyon. All of these pictures are taken and owned by Austin Mills. Thanks for the trip and the pics Austin. Here's a shot of the trail up to the ice where we were climbing. Bridal Veil Falls is on the far left. The top of the stairway is on the middle right. We were one the first terrace which you can't quite see in this shot.


After huffin' my way up the trail I met up with Austin and crew. They had all gone up a couple of times so it was my turn to strap on the axes. That's Austin on belay.



This musta' been my second time up this wall because Austin's dad Howard is belaying me and Austin is half way up the taller wall.

Yeah I made it to the top. By this point is was starting to drizzle and there was a bit of water dripping down the ice.

After the second time on this route, I got on the next one down and picked my way to the top of that one. Fun times.