Got to ice climb for the first time this weekend at All In Ice Festival and it was way too fun! Not only was the experience mega thrilling but getting to meet so many wonderful people added to the experience. It was awesome to be in a space filled with BIPOC and queer folks, since it’s such a white male dominated sport. So stoked to go again next year
SSGT Michael Peterson, 4th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Battalion, demonstrates the correct technique for ice climbing while traversing the Sheridan Glacier, 8/2/1982
Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007
Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008
Image description: SSGT Peterson holds a climbing rope with one hand and uses the other to wield an ice axe as he moves up (or down) a steep wall of ice. With his uniform, he is wearing a beret, heavy gloves, and crampons over his boots.
Amazing Computing will return, but for the moment Macworld has to lead off the year. This issue focused on the latest PowerBooks, with Andrew Gore’s editorial enthusing about using one to “throw off the shackles of cubicle life” but an article providing assorted cautions about stretching your battery life while travelling (including where to find scarce outlets in airport terminals). The “games section” now at the back of Macworld included a column pointing out that where Intel emulation was unpromising when trying to play the latest PC games on a PowerPC-powered Mac, add-on coprocessor cards weren’t much help either. It wound up insisting that didn’t really matter because “all indications are that the Mac gaming market is set to explode,” though.