Anchor ice when it’s on the bottom like that
Vielen Dank! 
Did you lay forward?
More like "laid back."
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oh it came at you that fast eh
I have this GF that ice dives in Canada and those are some spooky images because she has to make it back to the hole.
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My whitewater partner and I were driving down a mountain gorge one day after a wintry early Spring paddle. Looking up from the passenger side seat, I spotted two ice climbers coming down a sheer cliff face of giant icicles. ZERO in the way of exposed rock or friction. “Holy sheet, look at these crazy guys!” I remarked. “Oh yeah,” my partner said, “I know one of them, he’s a neighbor.” We pulled over to the shoulder of the road, got out and sat on the car hood to watch.
The ice climbers approached us after safely finishing the descent and gathering up their gear. My partner shakes hands with his neighbor, who then turns to the other climber and says, “Remember I told you about those mad bastard kayakers who run the steep creeks around here?”
We fell over laughing. Risk is relative, I guess
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That deep freeze wedding couple are still happily married 47 years later.
Well,
When the veal is dank,
bitte off more than Hugh chew (Gesundheit!),
and if I danke Hines
will that cupcake schon my canoe?
or
De Nata Iberian Slipsh’odd of the Unlearned Teutonic
(although I always preferred Yosemite Sam’s, “[BIG SIGH] I’m a Hessian without aggression.”
or, quite simply
Why Zoitintleeeee!
Like a FINE Eskimo couple, forged in the frozen freezers of higher latitude love! Who needs those fiery furnaces?!!! Soon to be a golden bond! 
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Indeed, sir! A fine day for poets and “mad bastards”! Or so I have read.
Whether climbing up icicles,
or flushing down melt trickles,
some mad be glad happiness they’ve had
was 'nother good day 'fore swings the sickle.
What!!? you were wantin’ to close with:
“Lands 'em gig in Vegas opening for Dead Rickles”???
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Just search the image, so fast!
I love it. My wife and I (sailboat racers) had the same conversation with my brother after he climbed Rainier.
You takes your choice and you manages your risk…
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I do more canoe sailing than paddling these days during the green seasons. But I’ve wanted to get into sailing on ice during the white season, as I live near the Hudson River. Only problem is, this year there’s been no hard freeze–And it’s already February. Climate change is real. Vintage footage attached.
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Well ya know, if you really want to chase those “Fastest Vehicles on Earth,” you don’t really need the ice, just the “earth,” or at least those salty flats.
Spiritboats gone ta heaven.
He’s the Banshee of Bonneville.
And with a better plan than those Steely Dan,
bought wheeled rocket and he bought a thrill.
Yea, it’s a “Silencr” series, all right, till suddenly a larch twig neath the snow grabs that next right foot placement. Then, everything ain’t so Kuhl, nor silent, as the orange snowball goes tumblin’ downhill left, and a blue, unmanned rocket sled goes torpedoing, “Bumf, bop, womp-kalomp, boof, swwwwwiiiisssshhh” right, fading away from sight downriver, chasing into distant peak echos of, “Farfignewton!”
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Kayaking in wintry icy conditions???
Where do advertisers get such ideas from???
Personally, my days of slinging long 16’+poly yaks over my shoulder and schlepping them down snowy banks are like three decades behind me. And aside from good durability on ice, shorter poly boats do have have their carrying merits…
Besides, dogs love 'em…
Nah. I’m not an earth sign. Besides, Bonneville’s too far a shuttle commute for my “Blue Flame” butt boat. Sailing wise, I’ll mostly stick with soft tops until hell freezes over…