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Show 30 ate breakfast, we waxed our skis while we waited for it to get light outside. John vient out to check the temperature so that vie'd knovi how to wax our skis - you use different kinds of wax for different degrees of cold. When he came back inside, he didn't say a word, so I went to look at the thermometer. It was 30 below zero." By 8 AM they were skiing across frozen Heart Lake, examining each other's faces often to make certain that their small amounts of exposed skin weren't becoming frostbitten. "It vias so cold that I could actually see the air," Janey recalls. "It was a pinkish-blue color that vias really amazing. I felt almost as though I could reach out and the air would break over me. It was so still - no air movement at all - just like ice crystals suspended. And I could hear the ice in Heart Lake cracking and groaning and creaking." They skied seventeen miles that day. By sunset they had reached the Snake River, vihere they climbed into a tub-like cart suspended from a steel cable vihich stretches from bank to bank above the river. Since the cable dips in the middle of the span, gravity propelled their cart to the low center halfway across. Then the rangers used a steel pole to pull the cart along the cable to the other side. Fortunately Jerry's house was only a short distance from the river bank. Once inside, Janey warmed herself viith a hot toddy before heading for an even hotter bubble bath. "I spent a lot of time in bathtubs full of hot water that viinter," Janey says, "because after four or six or eight hours in sub-freezing weather, that was the only viay I could get my body temperature back to normal." Many people ask Janey how rangers manage to keep themselves busy |