good week!

well, there was one great week just a bit ago. I went to Camp Sidney Dew with my scout troop, and got to help be a leader for the first time at summer camp. I relived some memories with old friends, met new people, and generally had a great time getting bit up by bugs, sweating all day, and getting sun burnt on the lake.

Camp is a place that means alot to me because of the lifelong friends I have made, such as Evan, Andrew, Liz, and many others. I was in Evan's wedding with Andrew and Jon as well. I am attending Drew Andrew's wedding in august, and cannot wait to congratulate him. Seeing kids who you personally have taught merit badges becoming staff members at the same camp is really cool and rewarding. It is magnified when you consider that without boy scouts I definitely could not be anywhere near the person I am today.

But moving on...

Saturday the 20th was Jessica's wedding. She married her high school sweetheart Earl and is moving into a double-wide in Nebraska. JOY! ok ,well I'm kidding about the double-wide part, I think. but it was a great day, with lots of fun dancing and revelry followed by a night out in buckhead with Ross, Sara, Rachel, Samantha and Savannah. Late night Steak and Shake will never be the same after watching our waitress get run over, and then go right in to work without missing a beat. some Photos of the evening are below.
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We all had a blast. Dancing with Jessica's mom, Jill, AKA "Sugarmamma" was definitely one of the highlights. But anytime someone who you are close to has a happy day, you feel happy too.

On to other things again...

On the 22nd, we closed on the house in Athens! I officially became a homeowner. The house will be my sanctuary for three years and hpoefully will be a good influence on me to do well and get a great job out of law school! I will likely put up more about the place when I move in.

Overdue trip reports

Where: Ocoee (x2)
When: May ?? and May 25?
Who: Me and Nate; me and Evan

Ok, this is a combined entry of my first 2 ocoee trips of the season. I went early in the season with Nate and we had a good afternoon, it was hot and warm, so the dry top was a good choice. I paddled not too confidently, and it was obvious. I still had not really gotten used to the Grande, and i hope to improve sooner rather than later.

When I went with Evan, however, things started to click in the beast! I paddled easier, made turns better, caught eddies more easily. I took the boof at tablesaw for the first time, and I really liked it. That move, as simple as it may be gave me the confidence boost i needed. For the rest of the run, Evan and I practiced ferrying hard. We challenged ourselves to cross swift current quickly and without going too far down river. It was a nice thing to practice, and I am going to start incorporating it in on the rest of the river when I go.

Here are my goals for the rest of the summer:
1) Get plenty of Roll Practice
2) practice combat rolls on Ocoee
3) run chattooga IV
4) Have Fun!

2009 Stats
Days Paddled: 8
Rivers Paddled: 6
Cartecay, Tellico, Little River (Chairlift), Nantahala Cascades, Nantahala River, Middle Ocoee

I've got the Statesboro Blues

Well, I made it to Statesboro a little bit ago for the 40th anniversary of Delta Tau Delta at Georgia Southern University. The only words to describe it are Epic, and, well, Epic.

Arriving in town Wednesday night, i simply got to say hey before going to bed. Thursday at around 1 would be the beginning of the fun. Joe Law and I played golf, and I actually played well for me, setting a personal best. I shot a 105. We drank, laughed, and made lots of fun of Rojas, who always deserves it.

Golf was followed by mellow mushroom, which was delicious. The night turned rough when we decided beer pong at tillman was the order of the evening. I played, and I won, alot. Tanner and I dominated the table, followed by being intoxicated. It was a great night seeing old friends and laughing and carrying on.

A few of us at Tillman Thursday night.


I got mad at Beau for bouncing it in while I was reracking his gay formations. So I fought, and I lost.

Friday came early, and involved a visit to the admissions office to say goodbye to Susan, who was leaving her job as director of admissions to go to Crap State (Appalachian State University for those who don't know GSU nicknames. The other thing I found out was that Sarah Smith is getting Susan's job! Sarah deserves it, and I'm very happy for her.

I met up with Jake, and we piddled around, waiting for alums to get into town. We headed to Tillman to socialize before heading over to the hotel, and we headed that way when I spoke to TeeTom about when they were getting into town, but they had actually arriaved the night before.

Right here I feel obliged to say there will be a serious post sometime soon regarding my love of my fraternity, our alumni, our undergraduates, and my experience. I got misty eyed multiple times driving home monday thinking about this.

We pull into the Quality Inn, and I see Carl, Tony, Tom, and Daddy Rabbit, four of the greatest guy I know, all from the 70s. Tom and Daddy Rabbit challenged us to some pong, and we tell them they are in for it.

After some drinks at the hotel and dinner, and some more drinks back at the hotel, we made our way to Tillman for another night of fun. I leave out details because it was another normal night of statesboro drinking, but it was great to be with guys like Brad and Chip who I dont see as much anymore.

Saturday was filled with alumni meeting, tailgate, baseball game, and of course, the actual 40th anniversary celebration.

The celebration was nice, with heavy orderves and a DJ. We received a proclamation from the Arch Chapter which basically said "Epsilon Omega is AWESOME." The best part of the evening was when the set of songs that began with "Shout" was played. All the young guys, and even a few alumni were out there dancing thier socks off, having a blast. It sometimes becomes a moment that is indescribable to others. You just had to be there to know how great it was. This was one of those times. Something abouut cutting a rug, acting a fool, and having a blast on the dance floor, all while sober, makes things fun.


The Macarena...one of my personal highlights of the evening.


Cha-Cha slide maybe? whatever it is we had fun.


Brad, Me, Backpack...one of my best friends and the first man I ever recruited for the fraternity. I am proud of backpack and am proud both these men are my brothers.


Statesboro is about "drunk" and all the awesome stories seem to involve the phrases "I was blackout," or "I had like 15 beers" or "8 shots," or "I was so blackout last night." It gets old. It was great the best story of the weekend was not one of those.



Ross and Kate cutting a rug. I think this was shout.

After the celebration, we went to Dingis. This is one of those stories with key phrases from above, but mostly because of the bottom dollar. And by that I mean dollars spent. Rumours of $500 tabs were abound, but apparantly they topped out in the $450 range. I have never bought so many shots, and never taken so many in a place not named South Padre Island. Our bartender also said he had worked there for 6 years and never seen people spend money like we did that night! Go Delt!


A glimpse into the best night of dingis ever.

Sunday was calm, cool, and half-wasted. It rained, so our golf outing was cancelled. But we did all chill out at Jake's and watched movies.


This was the edited for content version of the weekend, if you were there, it was epic. If you missed it, you suck at life.

now i am preparing to end my slackerdom

well, the last month has been crazy. Two visits to Athens, some paddling, work, fun, and a bit of sleep.


I will try to put a post up about many things, or multiple posts about individual things. Not sure which.

Lately the family and I have been headed to Athens to look at houses. I think we will be buying one! More details to come after we close and actually own the house.

I also have a new goal: read books/literature that I either never read because i didn't like reading for fun, or books that I BS'd my way through high school or college without reading. I have a large stack at the house that I am starting with, wish me luck.

Kayaking has been scant lately, mostly due to work and lack of people to go with when I am off work.

The rest of my pledge brothers are graduating this weekend, and I won't be there. I wish I could hang with them this weekend, but work comes first.

I am thinking about purchasing a new phone. Either an iPhone, or a Blackberry Bold. Any thoughts?

Here's a picture of us at Tulane on "The Greatest Spring Break Ever."

its been too long!

The man in the courdory was not on our trip, but is from GA. I graduated from high school with him. I am to yacht club for texas, and likely too cowboy for Austin, Texas (that is the STATE CAPITOL!)


The Alamo is a pretty cool place, and this shot of it at night is pretty awesome...

Well, the new job, texas, and the lack of high speed internet at the house has caused a delay in my updates.

Since my last post, I have been to the texas state capitol, the Alamo, Shiner brewery, and to the 2nd most southern point in the USA (South Padre Island), visited Athens, and worked my tail off at Wallyworld.

Texas was an interesting place, and one day I might write up a large post with some pics, but not today. I am now a cell phone peddler at wal-mart, and it is a pretty sweet gig. Better money, hours, etc.

Tonight I'm off to a bachelor party for someone I dont even know with Evan, and then I work saturday, and then paddling sunday on the Ocoee most likely.

Last week was awesome!

Two kayaking days, taking care of the dog, new job, law school news, and just a good week was what happened to me last week!

For kayaking details, see the previous two posts. But to summarize, I got to go kayaking twice this weekend, and I got to paddle with someone who I hadn't seen other than briefly at the club in four years.

Boone got neutered on Wednesday. He is doing fine, a little less rambunctious, but still a playful puppy. He turns 1 in a week and a day! He's growing up before my eyes, and there will probably be a photo post of his growing up next week.

I have heard back from two more law schools, and I am in at Temple, and waitlisted at W&L. First non-acceptance. I also received a call from the dean at Alabama Sunday night, but I didn't know it because I had the phone on the charger downstairs. I'm calling him back when I get done posting this!

I have been training at Wal-mart the last two days, and I think I will like this job. I will work during the day and actually sleep!

LRC first warm day!

Who: Bert, Hunter
Where: LRC Chairlift, ~400 CFS
When: March 7, 2009

Hunter texted me this week saying he was going to be in Rome, and wanted to paddle. I said sure thing, and so Saturday we went. All the guys couldn;t come, since they had other plans, but they missed out. It was one really pretty day on the river. It got to be about 70 degrees in the canyon, and it was perfectly sunny. Just about the perfect spring day for paddling. It doesn't beat a sunny mid summer day on the Ocoee (when no dry-top or anything is required, only a rash guard if you really want it) but it was amazing.

On to the river...Blue Hole memorial was a joke at this level. Previously, there was a hole all the way accross the river, and you had to be careful. now there was a shoot on the right side of the middle and no hole at all.

Bottleneck was much smaller, of course, than what I saw it at 3000+ CFS, but is was relatively similar to the 1200 from my previous trip. I would have run the rappid this time, but with only 2 of us, it would have taken much time to have safety set for both of us.

The rest of the river was pretty dang easy, with rock gardens that would be great to teach newer paddlers how to ferry, catch eddies, and work down a rappid instead of simply bombing down it as fast as possible.

As far as the new boat goes, I'm still having problems adjusting to the speed of the boat, and therefore catching eddies without overshooting them, which is a skill I need to develop. There are small eddies on the rivers I want to run, and I need to be able to catch them to succeed.

Hunter went to my high school, graduated with me, and is a solid paddler, I hope he can go with me again, and proly will this summer to the Ocoee and stuff.

After the river, I met Adam G, a paddler from Alabama who I saw on some video or something, and hes a great paddler. Always cool to meet someone who you've seen thier blogs, videos, etc.

2009 Stats
Days Paddled: 6
Rivers Paddled: 5
Cartecay, Tellico, Little River (Chairlift), Nantahala Cascades, Nantahala River

Kayaking TRIP REPORT!

I actually got to go kayaking! Here, as usual (if I can remember how to do it, its been a while) is my report

Who: Bert, Andrew, Nate, Ben (rando from YHC)
Where: Nantahala, standard release
When: Friday March 6

Well, I had texted the guys about going boating, and andrew couldn't go Saturday, but he could on friday. So we talked Nate into coming, and since there wasn't much running, we went to NC. It was cold, unlike what the weather forecast had called for, which was high 60s and sunny. So we bombed down from Ferebee, and enjoyed the day.

The Grande ran like a champ, punching the hole at Nanty Falls with ease, and I didnt really make much of an effort. The boat is FAST! I gained momentum and speed easily. I boofed the bump with a really crappy boof, I'm not used to how the boat paddles yet. I will be soon enough, though.

After running the river, I went on home, and crashed in order to prep for my next adventure, which happend to be Saturday Morning. See next post for details.

2009 Stats
Days Paddled: 5
Rivers Paddled: 5
Cartecay, Tellico, Little River (Chairlift), Nantahala Cascades, Nantahala River

My week...

it sucked...flat out...well, maybe it wasnt that bad...since my last post, I have worked 3 days, interviewed (and gotten!) another job, sold the Diesel, and slept a lot.

I missed out on Paddling this weekend: Nate and Evan couldnt go saturday, and sunday was just nasty, so nate decided we shouldn't go. Maybe next weekend, ho hum.

Law School Update: I am now 8 for 8. I dont remember if I posted that I was admitted to DePaul, that happened 2 weeks ago or so. I have also been admitted to South Carolina (15K scholarship) and Tulane (20K Scholarship). YAY! It doesn't really matter, as none of them offered enough money to make me move off my current top 2: UGA and Bama.

I'm still waiting on Washington and Lee (likely the only school besides the two favorites I might attend), William and Mary, Temple, and GA State. Those decisions should come in while I'm in Texas, which dont worry: there will be plenty of pictures and updates to be seen from that trip for sure...

HUGH SHIELDS!!!

Here's a picture of the guys at SOCO who were the first to find out about our amazing awards!



To sum up my weekend:

Friday night, work. For all your prescription needs, go to your friendly Walgreens. We got robbed at around 5 am, so that was cool. I then headed home for my BIG saturday.

Saturday. Get home at 6:45. Pack for Nashville, take hour and a half power nap. Meet up with Kenny in Cartersville for a trip up I-24 to Franklin (I thought we were in Nashvegas, but really it was Franklin)

We arrive 2 hours ahead of schedule, due to the trip being shorter than expected, and the time echange...change into our freshest attire (I busted out the yellow pants) and go to ritual/banquet.


*****
Here is where I want to put in that I LOVE MY FRATERNITY! I ran into no less than 6 guys who I ran with at Karnea in Pittsburgh, and several other people who I have met through my travels and experiences in Delta Tau Delta.

Guys who you meet from all over the country will stay in touch with you, you will share good times, get them to visit, and have a life full of memories. Not only will you meet people from your own school, and don't get me wrong, there are no better friends of mine than Epsilon Omega, but the larger brotherhood is amazing!
******

On to the banquet....We won EVERYTHING! Ole Blue, or Rick, our chapter advisor, won advisor of the year, we won recruiting, community service, adopt-a-school, etc. And then the big ones came.

Our chapter has been in existance since 1969. We had, until saturday, won any major awards from the national fraternity. The Court of Honor, given to the top 20 chapters: we had never sniffed it.

Hugh Shields, the top 10, we hadn't dared dream of it before. Well, Saturday night that all changed.

Epsilon Omega won our first Hugh Shields! On the Hugh Shields flag, it reads pro ti moi in Greek letters, meaning "First Among Equals."

I'm proud of my chapter, and of my fraternity...now lets go do it again next year!!!

Saturday after the banquet was one major celebration. I stayed up too late, and paid for it Sunday.

I had to drive Sunday, as Kenny drove us up there...I made it to Calhoun before Kenny drove the last 20 miles or so. When I got home at 3:00, I crashed for 8 hours. Monday I slept all day, and here I am on Tuesday, refreshed.

what's going on?

well, I've been slacking...I had a semi-busy weekend last weekend, and will have a great one this weekend. Last friday I was at Alabama visiting the Law School, and loved it. Strange for a Auburn fan to say, but I really enjoyed it.

New acceptances are just DePaul, but I've been offered a scholarship to DePaul, UGA, and Mercer. UGA was 5K, and Mercer and DePaul are 20K each. YAY Scholarships!

I also have started my job. 3rd shift isn't as bad as it seems, but it does take away half of the daytime for you, which stinks.

Tommorow I will head to Nashville for the banquet at Southern Division Conference (SOCO) for the fraternity. If we win Hugh Shields, I'll freak out...

No kayaking to report, it hasnt rained the way we'd like lately.

Diesel 75 for Sale

I'm having trouble sending pictures of my boat out to people, so here they are on here...

Shoot something, Alabama, Job hunting

Well, the lack of rain is making me mad...I want to boat.

Saturday, Evan, Nate, Andrew, Jeremy and I all went to the Adairsville Sporting Range to shoot skeet as well as pistols and a AR-15. It was a blast! I haven't shot my 12 gauge much since I got it, and i didnt even pull it out of the case this fall. I just had no time: football games, fraternity, graduating, etc. all got in the way.

This photo is one from about a year and a half ago, some of the guys went to Brad's farm and shot skeet all afternoon...one of the most fun times I have had with my brothers.

I shot my first assault rifle, the AR-15, which is awesome. No recoil, and pretty accurate. I now want a pistol, so that was a bad thing that came out of Saturday, as I cannot afford a gun at all. I can barely afford to eat and go on my cost-friendly adventures.

In other news, I got into Alabama...I don't remember if I put that on here yet, but it surely is now. And I got a call yesterday saying I got a 17,500 per year scholarship! So Thursday night I will be off to Bama-land to take a visit. Friday is Accepted Students Day. Buy hopefully I will be driving through the rain there and back so I can go boating Saturday.

Job prospects are looking up; right now, I have one offer, and have another pending. Hopefully I can start working sooner rather than later.

Long weekend

Well, I'm doing an awesome job of the two posts per week thing, right? haha.

I left Wednesday afternoon to go to South Carolina for a law school visit. Stayed with my buddy Rob, who is one of Evan's fraternity brothers from NGCSU. We had a grand ole time, and needless to say, we paid for it in the morning.

Thursday brought my law school visit, and it went ok. No tour guide, no one to greet me at 1 when I was suposed to show up, and then it all changed. Did I ever tell you it is a small world? Well, it is.

My info session giver was a friend of Sarah Smith (the woman who I credit my actually attending GSU to, as well as a former employer...she also wrote one of my letters of reccomendation to law school) from undergrad, and is still friends with her today. Hopefully Beth will be the one to assign me scholarships (GOD, if you are reading my blog, make it happen PLEASE!)

Thursday night was standard Statesboro fare, if you hang with the Delts, you know what I mean. Friday was bid day party, standard fare again, except with a really ballin drink machine.

Saturday was EPIC...Savannah and a trip accross the bridge to South Carolina. Details are incriminating...sorry.

SUNDAY!!! This game was amazing. I was saddened that Kurt didn't get a chance to throw a Hail Mary to Larry to win the game. It would have been so dramatic. Oh well. It was still an awesome game that was poorly officiated, and one play kept the Cards from winning...(the James 'I'm a thug who punches cardinals players and no one cares because I'm the Defensive Player of the Year' Harrison Pick-6) I might do a blog on what I think would have occured were it not for that play. Basically the Cards win by 10, and Big Ben is a laughing stock when he throws 3 picks in the 2nd half trying to bring the team back.

Monday brought a visit to Mercer law, it was ok. Nothing special, but if they give me money it might turn into something special. But it will take a truck load...

So that was my week..i'll check in again soon.

The weekend

Well, this weekend was great. I had a good family dinner friday to celebrate UGA. Saturday was a wash, since it rained and we figured everything was going to be wet in rocktown, but the rivers were still too low to kayak.

Saturday night was a blast! I ran into people I hadn't seen in a while like Josh, Chris, and a few others. Velcro Pygmies are still terrible, and butcher every song they play, but it was ok.

Sunday, Evan and I went and picked up my new Jefe Grande. Its a full on creeker, and is 15 gallons bigger than my Diesel, which is for sale. I couldnt outfit it before running the cascades, so now I have to wait to run in it for the first time. The first photo is courtesy of Liquid Logic. The pictures of the boat in yellow are my actual boat.

This boat will be great for me. It has lots of rocker, will boof like a champ, and apparantly will make me better than Tao Berman simply by sitting in it (tao if you read this, dont kill me. sarcasm was used in the previous statement! But I'm still way taller than you.)

But the cascades kicked my tail...I ran the horns of god decent, but I really got pushed around alot. I then swam in the little class III junk after it. I'll be going back and styling the cascades sooner than you know...The picture below is from American Whitewater, and its the best I could find that was similar to the flow we ran it at yesterday (which would be really low...)

There is a kayaker at the top of the picture below the leaf, and he is about to drop into the slot that is below the bow of his boat. that's the line, right between the "horns" which are the two rocks.

Sometime I'll get Evan's pictures and show some better angles.

UGA!

So I got done updating the blog, and so I decided to check out my application status's online. Mercer had no update. UTK still had not put my acceptance online. BUT (drumroll please...) UGA had ACCEPTED!!! Life is good. No, wait, life is GREAT!

I no longer have any stress before law school this fall. I might even move to Athens this summer, who knows. I'm going to seriously celebrate in the boro next weekend, though.

It's been a while

Well, in the last week and one day, lots has happened. I've struck out at two job possibilities. BOO! I've gotten accepted to two law schools. YAY! Drexel and University of Tennessee have given me admission, and Drexel has offered me $20,000 per year to attend. Drexel has invited me to thier accepted students day, and will be flying me up there! Awesome. I will be getting to see a new place and get a good idea as to where I want to go.

On the paddling front, I took a zero weekend last weekend.
This stinks, since I will be taking a few zero weekends in March. 3 to be exact. Saturday we were going to go rock climbing, but i overslept and missed out. Sunday, the tellico was frozen over, and we just hiked up the bald river and checked it out. Suislide is really intimidating. check it out (photos are from American Whitewater:

So We scouted this river...it was fun, but nothing compared to actually paddling. Bald River Falls had snow everywhere, and it would have made for one heck of a picture and video, but none of us wanted to change just to run the falls once. So lots of scouting, and that was our weekend. Evan has pictures of all the ice, and he will be uploading them soon. I'll share them with you then.


On the home front, Boone is great, and hes very close to being ok with our other dogs. He is jealous when someone gives one of our female dogs any attention, so he needs to get over that. after that, he will be good to go. Tommorow I will be boating, and the same on Sunday. Hopefully I can get some pictures and such soon. I promise I will be better about posting soon. I will try to have at least two per week from now on.

Law School Applications are DONE!

Well, when you apply for college, it doesn't really take that long to get acceptances back unless you apply to a super-awesome school, such as Harvard, UVA, UGA, Emory, etc.

When you apply to law school. everywhere is like that. It's a long process: take the LSAT, write a personal statement, get letters of reccomendation, join this online system to do your applications on, pay for them, wait, wait, wait, get acceptances and rejections.

So I applied over the last week, officially. Ive been working on stuff since late september (studying for the LSAT, taking LSAT, procrastinate, etc.) And I am finally done. No more writing essays, modifying my involvements and awards to fit what the school asks for, etc. The next thing on the list is to party it up in celebration (which will be done tonight in Kennesaw at the Delts of Hazzard, hosted by the Kennesaw State Delts.

So where did I apply, you ask? Well, I applied to the following schools: University of Georgia, University of South Carolina, Georgia State University, Mercer University, William and Mary, Wahington and Lee, University of Alabama, Tulane University, DePaul University, Drexel University, Temple University, and the University of Tennessee.

What a list, right? thats 12 schools for those counting at home. I hope to get in at UGA, making things simple and sweet. Its a great school, in state, and has cheaper tuition since it is a public school.

If I do not get into UGA? Well, then I will cry, likely break something, and then start looking at how much it costs to go to various schools, and the cheapest will most likely win, unless W&L or W&M come calling...W&L would be really sweet. I have a friend who goes there, it is a school that is relatively conservative, and i can make some political connections if I do well.

Well, the next question you likely have is "why did you apply to some of these schools? Don't you like the south?" The answer is of course, that I LOVE the south, and do not want to leave. But schools give you fee waivers based on how you do on the LSAT, encouraging you to apply to them. So I applied to W&M, Temple, DePaul, and Drexel because they had no application fee for me.

Well, there's a short summary of what has happened with Law School for me, I'll be posting updates as the spring goes on, praying for the best.

LRC Chairlift

Yesterday, January 11, we went kayaking. Here, I will fill you in with my normal trip report format. No pictures from the run, but Nate is working on a video, link to come soon.

Who: Evan, Nate, Bert
Where: LRC Chairlift, ~1,200 CFS
When: January 11, 2009

Well, after the crazy weekend shenanigans in Statesboro (Gin Buckets, girls who find my jokes to be funny, getting the dog back, ripped $20's, seeing my brothers) I got up at 5:30 Sunday morning, loaded up, and headed to Cartersville to meet up with Evan and Nate.

I arrived on time, much to Evan's surprise. We headed for a quick stop at my house, dropped off the dog, picked up the paddling gear, and headed across the border. After some time getting ready, we proceeded along the Canyon Rim Road to the put-in. Nate took some footage along the way.

The river was TOTALLY different from our previous experience in the canyon. Rocks existed everywhere, and the waves were much smaller. I styled Blue Hole Memorial, but Evan took a bit, and decided to demonstrate how good his hand roll is for the camera.

http://americanwhitewater.org/content/Photo_detail_photoid_5995_

Bottleneck was amazing. There is a link above to a photo from AW. This is my second sight at a real Class IV rappid (I'm not sure what the Upper Ocoee is, and I've never just sat out there and looked at it anyway, only paddled it. Last time it was huge, with water everywhere, big holes, lots of class IV boogie water, and more holes. This time, at a normal level, there was an easier path to walk the rapid, as well as scout and take footage. It became technical instead of big. Evan and Nate learned why they had problems with it last time...but with no pictures it is hard to explain.

The rest of the run was fun. There was one other four foot ledge thing with a good boof opportunity. I didn't boof too well, but i had no problems with the rapid.

2009 Stats
Days Paddled: 3
Rivers Paddled: 3
Cartecay, Tellico, Little River (Chairlift)

Pictures of Boone

So here are the promised pictures...I had to restart firefox.

Boone!

So Kim (my ex-grirlfriend) and I got a dog in May 08. He is a great Boxer/English Bulldog mix who was born in March 08. Kim had him after our breakup this fall, and now I have him back since she can no longer take care of him. I'm trying to get some pictures up of the big guy...it may be later today though.

But all in all, it was great. I got to stay with my brothers for two nights, and get my DOG BACK!!!!

Time to start anew

Well, after a long period of around 3 seconds, I have decided to actually do this Blog thing again, but do it about my life.

I graudated Dec. 12, and am now in the process of applying to law schools. My short list of prefered schools is UGA, Alabama, UT, GA State, Mercer, and who ever will give me a full ride.

I also am trying to find a job for the spring, and am going kayaking as much as possible. This blog will likely have LS updates, as well as trip reports from my outdoor adventures. Hopefully this will be my new way of holding onto memories forever, haha.