Ice Storm of the Century, Part Dos

Well, I suppose that I asked for it. The weather came and it was heinous. Fortunately, things weren't so bad in Murray, but my mom is still at home without any power. Predictions for some of the more rural areas on Western Kentucky are still looking at around another week and a half for power. It's pretty devastating.

Anyways, we were fortunate enough to be able to make it out of town Thursday morning and made it to Nashville safe and sound where we then headed down to Foster Falls for climbing on Saturday and Sunday. Here are some photos from Ice Break 2009.

ICE!!!


Powerless but warm on Wednesday night:


Heading into Land Between the Lakes on our way to Nashville:



The waterfall at Foster's Falls:


The cool bridge over the creek fed by the falls:


The creek again:


Chris and I:


Twist and Shout 5.9+:


Just a cool picture:


Rapping in to a route:


Things went pretty good the weekend too. I onsighted a few .10b's and a slew of .9s and .9+s. Got an interesting .11a called Junkyard clean on TR. Someone offered their rope up to me because I was gawking so that's why I didn't lead. Also gave another really cool .11a, Snake Charmer a go. It's about a 20 ft face to a huge roof then another 20ft of headwall. Pretty cool, and got it with two falls. Should go next time now that I've figured the beta.

Pretty good time though, and now school is back. Might be heading down to Foster's again this weekend though, because of the weather. Can't wait!