An Other Climbing Day In Kentucky

Hello,

These are the pictures from the last time I went Climbing in Kentucky with Thierry
(And just also, just before going to the hair cut... ;-))



I started the day with a wonderfull 6a just to get warm.
Actualy my arms were already pumped after this climb.




Then I lead a 6b+ with a cool spot to take a full rest... :-)


After that, I went to my project... A 6c+... I got stuck in the crux (Crux: the hardest move...)
I manage to do all the move one by one, but I was too pumped to do it in one shot...

Thierry in front of his project... "Super Slide" 7c+!

Now, a geological question...
What is this? (It is not a riddle, I don't have the answer...)
For the scale, this hole was like six centimeter wide...

Snow On Indianapolis

Hey!

Today it's snowing... Then it's a good day to walk down town and buy some present for Christmas!

Red River Gorge, Kentucky

Savoie ou bien? ;-)

My partner Thierry

Henriette, 6b dalle...

Street Kayaking

Hi guys!

How is it going?

A few weeks ago, I went in South Bend, in the north of Indiana (2:30 from Indianapolis and close to the famous University "Notre Dame") to paddle down town on the artificial river!


Agrandir le plan
click around the green arrow to Zoom on the river

This river is not as nice as those we've got in France around Lyon but there is a lot more spots to play (surfing waves and deep holes)! :-)
I went there with the HCC (Hoosier Canoe Club, and Hoosier is the name of poeple who lives in Indiana)
An Artificial river is never long... So at the end you have to carry your boat and walk to the begining of the river... and also cross a street...


The weather was really cold so my friend Mark had to wear something... scaring to keep his head warm... and on the right this is kevin from Chicago.


This is a little video from this day...

East race2
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I would like to thanks my friend Suzi to bring
her camera and make some cool videos...

Beaujolais Nouveau

My grand father was a Beaujolais wine grower so I couldn't miss the famous "Beaulolais Nouveau".

From Wikipedia: Beaujolais nouveau is a red wine made from Gamay grapes produced in the Beaujolais region of France. It is the most popular vin de primeur, fermented for just a few weeks then officially released for sale on the third Thursday of November.

I went with my fench neighbours, Karen and Ronan, to the "Chatterbox" to taste it.

The place is very nice, a band was playing some jazz music and everyone looked happy (thank you Beaujolais Nouveau... ;-) )



And for the first time of my life, I manage to win something at the lottery!

A wonderfull T-Shirt George Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau! hahaha ;-)

Rock Climbing in Kentucky

I met Thierry through the International Center of Indianapolis who came and Welcome me when I arrived here. He is a french man working for the famous company Lilly, but he is also a Junkie Climber... He goes every WE to Kentucky in order to climb some 7c, 8a... Easy...



Agrandir le plan

I went there with him (2 weeks ago) and I was very impressed.





I had never seen so good climber male and female... all of them were climbing some 8a!


I managed to lead a little 6a, then be the second climber in a 6c, and never manage to finish a 7a... but for the first time climbing since dozen months... I was pretty satisfied!

One more year...

I turn....

Kayaking on the Ocoee River! Part 1

When I knew that I will go to Indianapolis for a year, One the first thing I've done was to look if it was a good place to go kayaking and rock climbing...
I've been a bit disappointed to see that the state of Indiana is really flat... so no mountains and no rivers...
Then, in my luggage I didn't bring any of my kayaking gear...

It was mistake!

At the Uni, I met a kind of crazy guy... Mark


He started kayaking one year ago and since he paddle almost every WE...
We talked about kayaking for hours... it was great! Then he proposed me to go with him and his kayaking club to run the Ocoee!
I was like crazy! hahaha

The Ocoee river is very famous!

This river was used for the kayaking competition during the Olympic game of Atlanta in 1996!

Mark managed to find me all the gears I needed! And very good stuff! better than my own equipment! (Carbon paddle, crazy Dry top, very goog helmet, A playboat Jackson Fun 2... well everything!)

So last week, we left indianapolis friday afternoon to go in Tennessee

indianapolis (Indiana) -> Cincinnati (Ohio) -> then we drive through Kentucky to Knoxville (Tennessee) -> Ocoee River

Agrandir le plan

with his big truck...(18 Liters / 100 km!)... 8 hours driving...


After that... It was like an earthly paradise!
I met around 20 american kayaker..
We paddled saturday from 10:30 to 5:30.... the water was great and not too cold, sunny weather, some pretty big rapids, Fun waves to surf, rocks to boof, this river is really nice! not so many people on the river... I had to do some roles...


A geant camp fire to cook some sausages for saturday night... many beers too ;-)

And we've done to same in sunday.... Oh my God! that was great!!!

I don't have so many pictures to show, cuz my camera didn't want to work well, so I am gonna try to get some pictures from other kayaker and blog them later....

that will be the part 2!



see you

take care!

American Football

Hello!

One of the most famous sport in the USA is the American football.
I don't really understand the rules of this game yet... It looks like everybody is fighting while the ball is somewhere else... Anyway, the Indiana's team are the Colts.
This team is pretty famous because they won the Super Bowl!

On Wikipedia, the definition of the Super Bowl is:"the Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL)".

The funny things is it looks like to be the NFL champion is not good enough...

Don't you need to beat at least another country to be a world champion?
Or to participate to a world cup?

So I asked a student about that... and he told me that if a team from an other country wants to play with the Colts, the Colts will beat them anyway...

Tornado Warning!

Hey everbody!

Do you know what I learnt last week?
Well the state of Indiana is a good place for tornado...
because of the warm wind wich come from mexico and the cold wind from canada...
Look what I saw on my TV!

Tornado warning
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There are around 11 Tornado wich come each year close to Indianapolis...

Well... only 10 to go! ;-)

Behind the flat

After you've seen my flat, you still don't know if you are coming to visit us?
Look at behind my flat... Only nature, grass, water and tree... and this is far only like 15 minutes walking to be down town...

On the field / Sur le terrain

Hello Everybody!

Friday, I've been on the field (around Fishback River) with the university of Indianapolis.
Students had an outdoor course to learn how works sediment transport in rivers.
It was really interesting!

traduction pour Tom le Fou:
Bonjour tout le monde!
Vendredi, I suis allé sur le terrain (sur la rivière Fishback) avec l'université d'Indianapolis.
Les étudiants avaient un cours sur le terrain pour comprendre ce qu'une rivière pouvait transporter...
C'était tres interessant!

Sortie sur le terrain
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