I've never thought much about spending time on horizontal ice but this year that may change. Thanks Blaine for the informative clips.

As an old ice climber, I wonder if a pair of these would come in handy. ;\)

ice tools a little more modern than mine but you will get the idea
�Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.�
-- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea