I spent yesterday volunteering with Habitat for Humanity and hung sheet rock the entire day. Of course my group was working on the first floor which meant a lot of ceiling to hang. By the end of the day I didn't think I could lift my arms up over my head anymore. Conveniently enough I had plans to ice climb today.
My alarm went off at the ungodly time of 3:30am. Just reaching over to turn my alarm off caused my upper back and neck to hurt.....I didn't have much enthusiasm for the day ahead. We were pleasantly suprised at the TH. Usually there are gale force winds blowing at this TH and this morning there were none! And when we got to the ice, the sky was blue and the ice was glistening (the weather forcast said 80% chance of snow and -22 windchill...there wasn't even a breeze blowing).
We decided to go to Jewell Lake since Prakash and I hadn't ice climbed in a bit and it was Shawn's first time. Although, he looked like he had done it before.
We climbed for a few hours and got quite a few laps in. A combination of hanging sheet rock yesterday and a lot of tool swinging today, my arms were done and the clouds were finally starting to move in so we packed up and made our way out. Frozen alpine lakes make for great winter shortcuts.
It turned out to be a great day in the mountains. And, this blogging is much faster on the new laptop!
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