Of all the icy slopes I have ascended, this one hardly registers as a slope. No crampons or ice axe needed. No pickets, no jumar, no rope. This is just a driveway.
But it is a long, sloping driveway at night, with ice and snow, running down to a house on the lake. A man in the lake house...
Jan
04
O Six Hundred
Six in the morning, Sunday. There are 180 gradations on the Fahrenheit O’meter between water being a solid, liquid or vapor. Apparently, it takes only one of the water is a solid degrees for a collection of state and local officials to muster for a firefighting rite of passage.
Firefighter One...
Dec
29
None Too Slick
Schroeckenthal (sp?). “Shrek”, for short. Captain 2 Zach’s nickname. But Schroeckenthal, in full, on the “butt tag”. Butt tags are the last name tag that hangs off the bottom of the back of a firefighter’s jacket. In theory, they are there so you know who is in front of you at a fire. So you...