Rock Hopping on Ice

In the month of March, Aaron will be participating in the Iditacise Challenge at work. Basically, you keep track of your exercise, and each minute counts as a mile. Your goal is to go 1100 miles. That's a little over a half hour of exercise per day.

Since this is Day One, Aaron decided to get into the spirit right away with some situps, pushups, etc. Then we both took a walk down to the beach. That required getting bundled up, since it's a bit windy and just below freezing.

We went at 4:00pm, and high tide wasn't until 6:30 today. That meant that there were huge ice boulders beached on the edge of the water. It was fun to hop around on them.

Here's Samara with ice boulders and freezing water behind her.

Doesn't this water look cold? Not a good idea to fall in. You could die.

But that didn't stop Aaron from climbing from ice chunk to ice chunk to get as close to the water as possible.

Yep, that's Aaron.

Sometimes you've got to get on your hands and knees to stay stable enough not to slide off.

After a bit of climbing around, we posed by the giant tires that keep the boats off the dock. Those big tractor tires give you a sense of scale. They dwarf Samara.

In fact, two of them are almost as tall as Samara.

Notice the icy water behind her.

And here's Aaron next to the tires. Let me tell you: that warm hat is necessary.

And finally, as we got ready to head back home to the warmth of our living room, I snapped a picture of the beach full of icy boulders and the cliffs where our apartment sits.

Brr. Winter exercise is cold. But, considering that Aaron wants to go backpacking into the Alaskan wilderness this summer, perhaps it's a good idea. We're getting older, rounder and out of shape.