New and Experienced climbers over 50 #20

Fun to hear all the weather reports from around. Wendy - snow!?!

We are having “June gloom” here - a bit foggy and cool. Coastal temps in the low 60s, overcast near our house inland. 

phylp phylpwrote:

Fun to hear all the weather reports from around. Wendy - snow!?!

Yes, and no idea how much, or how much damage it will do to the garden and leafed-out trees. I just picked a bouquet of lilacs to salvage something. This happens every year. But at least no fire danger for a few days.

Edit to add: Rain just changed to snow.   

phylp phylpwrote:

Fun to hear all the weather reports from around. Wendy - snow!?!

We are having “June gloom” here - a bit foggy and cool. Coastal temps in the low 60s, overcast near our house inland. 

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”

Funny but true, when I was going to grad school, I once drove from SF Chinatown to Concord to visit a family friend. The temp when I left was 68F. When I got to my destiantion, maybe an hour later and on"the other side", it was 98F.

It was always fun to see the tall bldg of SF stick thru the fog from Lawrence Berkeley Lab across the Bay.  

phylp phylpwrote:

Fun to hear all the weather reports from around. Wendy - snow!?!

We are having “June gloom” here - a bit foggy and cool. Coastal temps in the low 60s, overcast near our house inland. 

Well Wednesday was one of those days that I  live for, super low humidity and around 60.  My brother had to work, my regular partner Steve had to work, my wife had to work and I couldn’t  find anyone else who wanted to go climbing outside.  I normally would just have bouldered alone but I need to get back into route shape so I went to the gym.  Sent a lot of plastic anyway, but what a wasted opportunity.  That for me is the worst thing about getting old (at least so far),  it is hard to find people to climb with.  And looking like another crappy weekend in the 90s so Paula and I will be honing our plastic technique yet again.

When we visited my brother-in-law in S.F., he lived close to the coast (up by the Cliff House) and I was always amazed by the temperature difference even between his place (almost always in the morning fog) and downtown. It was even more dramatic when he took us out to Pt. Reyes--unwarned, my wife and I were only wearing short-sleeves and dungarees and froze despite it being mid-summer and over 90 inland during the drive to there.

S. Neohwrote:

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”

Funny but true, when I was going to grad school, I once drove from SF Chinatown to Concord to visit a family friend. The temp when I left was 68F. When I got to my destiantion, maybe an hour later and on"the other side", it was 98F

I agree, I used to live in the fog zone near SF. But I live near LA now. We still get June gloom down here. I don’t know how far inland it usually rolls but not too much farther. It’s probably sunny in JT. 

Nice today in NYC, but rainy now and supposed to be 92 tomorrow. Probably not going to hit Rat or Cat Rock in Central Park, but maybe the gym. Two days of graduation ceremonies are now done, as are tuition payments!!

Today was the whole school ceremony.

Alan Rubinwrote:

When we visited my brother-in-law in S.F., he lived close to the coast (up by the Cliff House) and I was always amazed by the temperature difference even between his place (almost always in the morning fog) and downtown. It was even more dramatic when he took us out to Pt. Reyes--unwarned, my wife and I were only wearing short-sleeves and dungarees and froze despite it being mid-summer and over 90 inland during the drive to there.

Pt Reyes is beautiful but always cold due to the ocean and wind!
I went back for a visit a few years ago and enjoyed it as much as I did back in the '80's.

Long Beach here for a night.  67 degrees, June gloom, but stunning parking structure. I can report we do not have a parking structure like this anywhere in Joshua Tree.  Terrible shame. 

Looks really good Todd.  I like the cheering section.  Reminds me of when Ella was 2 and I was stay at home Dad and working on this V9 Project that was a mile snowshoe out in the woods.  I pulled into the crux and looked down to see her “spotting” me lol.  I never could send until she was napping one time.

Finished my ORG FA project Wednesday.  Guess I'm back from the hip surgery.  Good mixture of techy crimping, steep face climbing on generally positive holds, and some overhanging climbing up high.   Full 35m long with a substantial amount of hard climbing.  Took two tries to lead.  Kind of funny how it worked out.  

My first try was solid until I got the rope around my leg in the middle of the high crux, which for me is the hardest one.  As soon as that happened the wheels completely fell off.  Took too much time to fix the problem, which led to not getting the clipping hold good enough, which made me come within a hair of pitching with all the rope out for the clip.  Which led to being so pumped my fingers starting opening on moves, which led to not throwing far enough off crimps to hit the crux ending dyno.  Outta there.  It was like a gas burning snowball from Hell, all I could do was laugh about the pump chain reaction.  Super clean fall, didn't touch the wall.  At least now I know that whipping doesn't bother the hip either.

Second run didn't feel nearly as solid but I figured I'd go as hard as I could until I fell, because you never know until you've fallen off, right?  Somehow I managed to avoid another mistake, paid better attention to avoid getting tangled up on the step through, did adequate pump management, the wheels stayed on, and I did it.  Equal parts getting pumped and psyched.

Climbing sure is fun/rewarding when a route/day goes like that.  It's like a drug.  You immediately start looking for the next similar fix.

Randywrote:

Nice today in NYC, but rainy now and supposed to be 92 tomorrow. Probably not going to hit Rat or Cat Rock in Central Park, but maybe the gym. Two days of graduation ceremonies are now done, as are tuition payments!!

Today was the whole school ceremony.

Congrats Randy, but I must say… it pains me when my peers (and truthfully you could be my father) have these sort of milestones with their kids.  It makes me look back and wonder where it all went…. Best to you guys!  Good job!

Ward Smithwrote:

Reminds me of when Ella was 2 and I was stay at home Dad and working on this V9 Project that was a mile snowshoe out in the woods.  I pulled into the crux and looked down to see her “spotting” me lol.  I never could send until she was napping one time.

So funny.  Hold on to that memory forever, Ward.  
Kids do not stay kids for long; mine just turned 16.  She will be driving this summer.  Yikes.  I keep telling her driving around here is way more dangerous than roped climbing :) 

Henny, glad to see the hip is better and you are cranking hard!

Graduation in a stadium? What school?

And congrats!

Lori Milaswrote:

Long Beach here for a night.  67 degrees, June gloom, but stunning parking structure. I can report we do not have a parking structure like this anywhere in Joshua Tree.  Terrible shame. 

Lol!  We ate lunch in a restaurant in Manhattan Village ( near Manhattan Beach) once, and the bathroom in the parking garage was as nice as any bathroom I’ve ever seen in a house. Joliza, Long Beach - fantastic burritos.
we are in Carlsbad, heading down to San Diego. Still overcast today. 

Hiked up to the crag today and did some easy bouldering for rehab. two easy 30m problems.   got to watch the youngsters leading Celibacy 9+  A route that I hand drilled on lead 22years ago. Isa did the FFA. 

Arrived today at Castle Rocks state park portion of City of Rocks. Here until Friday, maybe might do some climbing!

Not climbing related, but over 50’s related for males…

I took part in the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride today in Adelaide. Almost 500 riders raised $75956 for prostate cancer research and men's mental health.

Based on what I saw there was also a fair amount of funds injected in to the pocket square, bow tie, waist coat and cloth cap industries!

Carl Schneiderwrote:

Not climbing related, but over 50’s related for males…

I took part in the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride today in Adelaide. Almost 500 riders raised $75956 for prostate cancer research and men's mental health.

Based on what I saw there was also a fair amount of funds injected in to the pocket square, bow tie, waist coat and cloth cap industries!

Carl look at you! Wow! Can you somehow fashion some Climbing knickers that look like that? I think maybe you are pulling out of your slump. Really nice pic.