Ice, ice, baby

My shiny new Petzl Nomic ice tools arrived this morning. They are quite possibly the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Dangling a couple hundred feet above the ground with only a half inch of the point chipped into the ice while I scramble to re-gain my footing ... is the stuff of dreams these days*. It looks like we're going ice climbing the first week of February.

* It's not nearly as thrilling as it may sound. We're top-roped the entire time. One is in considerably more danger climbing a step-stool in a kitchen.