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.