Hello 'Ol Kentuck

I successfully arrived in Kentuky 3 days ago...since then shit has happened.  Randomly, my spare tire exploded.  Curious.

It's wet here, like really wet, I've never seen such fungus growing on everything before.

 I climbed a few days in rain and shine, after every climb here I feel like I just got out of a shower...a sweat shower.  It's heinous, it must be around 80% humidity every day!  I have a sweat band that has proven a mandatory piece of climbing gear.

There are dangers in the Red, Mondo found this out the hard way three days ago.  While walking along a trail, Mondo was 20 feet ahead of me then suddenly started squealing and sprinted back to me. She parked herself between my legs cowering and wailing in pain.  I had no clue what had happened, she wouldn't let me touch her leg at all and kept squealing for several minutes.  Finally she settled down a bit and I carried her back to our packs.  I wasn't sure if she needed a vet as she wasn't whimpering any more and seemed to be settling.  Eric thought she might need to go...as soon as I spotted the swelling in her leg I agreed with Eric, she needed a vet ASAP.

After a quick drive up the road to a veterinarians office we found out that she had most likely been bitten by a copperhead snake.  While not fatal, it's extremely painful and there's a lot of swelling.  We got her  pain killers, ant-inflammatories and antibiotics.  Still after two days her leg is pretty swollen and she's still limping around on it.  Hopefully she'll be kicking again in a couple days, till then I get to carry her up to any crag we go to. Yay!  Thankfully she'll be okay though.

Day 2 post bite

Day 3 post bite

My next post will contain awesome sendage, happy stories of Mondo chasing critters and general well being...I hope...