kentucky ice climbing

Post by **michael crowder** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 4:27 am

folks,
i am presently finishing up a guidebook for south eastern ice climbing. i am a western n.c. ice hound and do not have much first hand experience with ice in your state. i need folks to help proof read my manuscript for ky and the virginias. i also need so photos for your region. all help is appreciated. if you don't speak up now then please don't gripe later.
thanx,
michael

Post by **Wes** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 4:33 am

Not a lot forms regularly, but I think I have some pics bouldering the ice cone at torrent. Berry Richarson, and Dr. Jack Hume have done a bit of ice around the red, and there is an OK flow outside of Danville on hwy 34. There is a lot of ice down by the KY river, but I have never seen anything that would go without some dry tooling. If they did form all the way, it would be 200+ feet.

Wes

Post by **GWG** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:41 am

A friend of mine would go up towards Madison, IN to do some ice climbing. He has since moved to Colorado however I will try to get in touch with him about the particulars.

When do you plan on publishing?

GWG

Post by **t bone** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:46 pm

Splashdown on the kentucky river.150+ ft WI5.Steve Faulkner has pictures of this thing. No dry tooling on this thing when it forms up. I have done bunch of good ice in Indiana.

Post by **Joe Hill** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:35 pm

There are a lot of great roadside flows that develop all around south eastern Kentucky. They are usually only good for a few days a year but there is amazing amounts of ice here whenever it gets cold. The hardest thing to do is to find someone willing to belay in the cold. That and the coal trucks that go whizzing by. I use to climb in the Addirondacks and there is a lot more roadside ice here when it gets cold.

k

Post by **Joe Hill** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:36 pm

There are a lot of great roadside flows that develop all around south eastern Kentucky. They are usually only good for a few days a year but there is amazing amounts of ice here whenever it gets cold. The hardest thing to do is to find someone willing to belay in the cold. That and the coal trucks that go whizzing by. I use to climb in the Addirondacks and there is a lot more roadside ice here when it gets cold.

k

Post by **paddyb** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 4:24 pm

I found a book called SHADES OF GRAY: AN ICE CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO DIXIE which has some information on Kentucky and some of the more northern areas of the South. I think I found it at Chessler's Books website.

Post by **andy_lemon** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:15 pm

Damn, I went to Barnes and Noble a year ago and they said it was out of print. Shades of Gray also lists some Illinois ice routes and I'd like to get my hands on that book.

Would it be tooooo much trouble for you to list all the areas in that book just so we can have a look see? P-P-Please paddyb?