You are listening to The Enormo Cast.

Burr. It's wintertime buggeroo's. As my daddy still says, it's colder than a well-driller's

took us out there. Which means them doggies are shivering and you got death metal blasts

in the dark of the early morn, because you're on your way to go ice climbing. Or maybe you're still

standing in line at the local bull on Jere and Jure Colorado at 9am after a hot soak,

anticipating your half-calf soy milk latte with one pump of vanilla. Thank you very much.

Either way, you crazy sons of bitches are all fired up to jug-haul up dem icicles.

And though in this couple's opinion, they should be staging an intervention rather than stoking

the addiction. Black diamond is and has always been at the forefront of innovation when it comes to

peer ice and mixed climate. I mean, just look at the names of black diamonds' ice tools for

crying out loud. The cobra, the reactor, the fuel, the viper. How the hell are you not going to

feel like a boss wheel in two viper's in your hands? Of course, it helps to forget that viper's

generally would stay away from ice or go dormant in those temperatures. As wood cobras,

and if you dig grab either of those snakes by the tail, you'd probably be dead within a couple

hours max. But try not to think about that while you're swinging your way up a glorious blue

chunk of God's frozen creation. So once the natural euphoria of re-warming your hands begins to

ebb, head over to blackdiamondequipement.com or your favorite local shop and check out BD's ice

tools, ice screws, apparel, and all the other accoutrement that goes with scraping of frozen rock

water. Because hell, aren't we really just here for the accoutrement?

Hey, what's up? It's your toes talking here. That's a nice alpine climb you got there. I'd

hate to see something happen to it. Like when we get cold, life gets pretty miserable, eh, hot shot?

Instead of a ballerina up there, you feel like a walrus. Not a svelte walrus who swims all day,

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