New and Experienced Climbers Over 50 #27

Nick Goldsmithwrote:

Its so awesome not having hangovers. Haven't had one since 2006.. don't miss it at all. 

I find getting loose once in a while with friends is kinda fun, my years of no partying at all didn't convince me otherwise.

Yesterdays adventure in learning new swear words and breaking shit

todays project is the other side. swilling coffee and steeling myself for the fun and games...  should have bought an extra cut off wheel for the angle grinder yesterday when I got a ride to the parts store for swing arm bushings...  for some reason the truck in the how to video never has  North East rust.... 

In the spirit of caring of the Holiday Season, I would like to remind our over-50 members of this important safety issue (regarding their members):

phylp phylpwrote:

In the spirit of caring of the Holiday Season, I would like to remind our over-50 members of this important safety issue (regarding their members):

Always be careful of what you ask Santa for.

Thank you phyl, calamity avoided thanks to your timely caution. I had been inspired to take up painting after watching Fisk.

phylp phylpwrote:

In the spirit of caring of the Holiday Season, I would like to remind our over-50 members of this important safety issue (regarding their members):

Why do you call out 50 year old dicks for potential  breakage over say, any other age group? 

Hank Caylorwrote:

Why do you call out 50 year old dicks for potential  breakage over say, any other age group? 

Yes, shouldn't this post be on the Accidents and Injuries Forum? I'm sure posted there it will bring forth many interesting 'reports'.

I hadn't been out of college for very long. I was working as a s/w engineer and doing s/w testing in the lab. One day, I get to listen to the story of one of the lab techs who had actually had this happen to him. Not surprising that the minute he used the description "CRACK!" we all cringed and headed for the exits. In the aftermath, he called it his "G-spot locator."

Alan Rubinwrote:

Yes, shouldn't this post be on the Accidents and Injuries Forum? I'm sure posted there it will bring forth many interesting 'reports'.

You and Hank may be right, but take it in the spirit of a compliment - that when I think of the most adventurous, dare I say, hard-core people on Mountain Project, my thoughts turn to the intrepid folks who post on the over-50 thread.  

phylp phylpwrote:

You and Hank may be right, but take it in the spirit of a compliment - that when I think of the most adventurous, dare I say, hard-core people on Mountain Project, my thoughts turn to the intrepid folks who post on the over-50 thread.  

That's awesome brother because that's actually exactly how I took it to mean!

Hank Caylorwrote:

That's awesome brother because that's actually exactly how I took it to mean!

Sister...

In round numbers, 1.2% of 3421 is 41. Spread those 41 penile fractures out over the 16 Christmases described, and we get app. 2.5 broken penises per Christmas period. The way I work it out that means that if these unfortunate injuries are evenly distributed throughout the rest of the year, then for any other given two-day period 1.7 Germans fracture their penises. Of course, there could be other event clusters, New Years for example, or perhaps Oct 3rd, the Day of German Unity.

The fact is that vacuum cleaners seem to pose a much greater threat to German pubic health (not to single out Germany in this regard, it appears to be quite a thing in Britain). I quote from an anonymous post on reddit…

“…there was a dissertation titled ‘penile injuries caused by masturbating using vacuum cleaners’ at the university of Munich back in 1978.

The main culprit was the Kobold vacuum cleaner of Vorwerk as due to its design the penis can make contact with the impeller during the deed. Vorwerk later changed the design to avoid this issue.

The dissertation received some more attention when it got published in BTX in the 80s by CCC, resulting in them getting sued by Vorwerk. Vorwerk withdrew once they realized the cases mentioned there were legitimate.

The dissertation still pops up now and then in German media.”

Yes, I have too much time on my hands right now. I would have been out climbing today with Phyl but for a pulled trap muscle that has me somewhat disabled for the time being. Tomorrow I see the local Shiatsu master, and hopefully he can get it to quit spazzing.

Nice day out at Araps today. Lovely weather, mid teens, blue sky. Followed Agent Orange (15) then TRd it then led First (v easy) pitch of Lamplighter (14) and followed pitch 2 & 3. Lovely route with great exposure. I was very blasé about placing gear on the first pitch as it wasn’t a lot more than a scramble with a couple of actual moves (grade 10).

Abseiled on a 60 in two abseils with me having to hang from my safety at the changeover. I always find that heebie jeebies inducing even though I hang from a single strand of climbing rope constantly.  

I’m away for a few days, check in for a climbing post and see you’re all engaged in a discussion about members. Are we supposed to give our stats. 

Carl Schneiderwrote:

I’m away for a few days, check in for a climbing post and see you’re all engaged in a discussion about members. Are we supposed to give our stats. 

Stats are big in the 2024 goals thread

M Mwrote:

Stats are big in the 2024 goals thread

I love setting goals, especially New Year’s resolutions, even if I only keep them for a day. Usually if I write it down and if I am really feeling it I can keep the vibe for months or even the whole year. So I’m loving my four climbing goals, even though I may not send one of them.

But what I’m really finding is that my attention has been pulled in a completely different direction over the last few months.   I’ve been watching people rise to their peaks, many of which have never been attained before. Whether it climbers climbing or the Blue Angels doing their thing (I’ve been watching the Raptor especially) or artists or dancers– – I never would’ve thought someone could top Baryshnikov but they have. It’s given me great inspiration and hope. The world is a good place.

So specifically, I have been asking myself how that applies to older people. Are we just running out the clock? I think there’s something incredible to be done (or simply to be) at this apex of life but I don’t know what it is just yet. I do know that amongst this crew there is a physicality, wisdom, humor, talent, passion, with more still to manifest.  What are we headed for?

With or without New Year’s resolutions, I think 2024 will be an evolving process and one that can’t happen for the under-50 folks. They’re still too busy just figuring out what it means to be alive.

lots of thinking.  

I got to meet our luminary from the northernmost post in Alaska. Colden came down for a visit.   What a really cool guy! He hasn’t said much about his climbing past, but he’s done plenty. And he’s done plenty of just about everything else. I asked him to pronounce the name of his town. I would have to work on it a long time to get out all those consonants. So for now we have to leave it at Barrow Alaska.  Talk about a lifetime adventure!

We took a drive through the main part of the west entrance park and it was packed like the 405 freeway. Colden asked me to show him my favorite spots which is a big mistake because it could’ve taken all day.   So we hiked over to Little Hunk, and I showed him trespassers wall and then around the backside to look at that beautiful rock around Bob’s route, Electrolux and ZZZZZ, and over another hundred feet to see Scott Cosgroves new deal. And then we hopped in the car so I could show him the greatest and best route in all of Joshua Tree, Trix, which he stared at for a long time, and I don’t think he got the beauty of it.   And then hiked around to just survey Steve Canyon and point out my goal route, the Decompensator. 

I think Colden would make a great bum for a year or two. Go surf in Hawaii, come stay in Joshua Tree and climb for three or four months, go to Aspen, or some other great ski place and ski until you drop.

Lori Milaswrote:

So specifically, I have been asking myself how that applies to older people. Are we just running out the clock? I think there’s something incredible to be done (or simply to be) at this apex of life but I don’t know what it is just yet. I do know that amongst this crew there is a physicality, wisdom, humor, talent, passion, with more still to manifest.  What are we headed for?

From the moment we are conceived, we’re running out the clock.

Setting goals is satisfying, and if you don’t give yourself the occasional celebratory moment after fulfilling some goal, it would be difficult to motivate yourself to do other things.

We need that natural rush of endorphins.

That’s why we climb.   

Colden - Did you get the message I sent you? I'm headed out climbing today with a couple of others if you'd like to join us.

Lori Milaswrote:

What are we headed for?

Oblivion....  Merry whatever floats your Titanic