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New and Experienced Climbers over 50 #33
C Miller wrote: Very cool! Inspiring to say the least! He trains… that’s key. |
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Older climbers reach those ratings regularly w/o training or fanfare. |
philip bone wrote: 5.12d sport is quite hard! |
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^^^ " I'll reimburse your airfare." |
Todd Berlier wrote: Working on that. Hey Todd, would you mind one of these Saturdays to meet up at PipeWorks? I’m in Mountain View for a bit.
I’m in Mountain View, and generally go to the Sunnyvale Movement gym. There’s a couple dozen really great cracks ranging from 5.8 to 5.12+ there. Pretty decent settings. |
Todd Berlier wrote: Damn! That's an awesome BMI for climbing! So jealous (although it is purely my fault that I'm not 154 pounds like I was 30 years ago when I graduated undergrad!). And yes, sooo much harder to take weight off in my 50's relative to my 20's and 30's! Veternarian? Cool! I grew up on a small dairy farm in VT and wanted to be a vet but changed my mind in undergrad and went to med school instead. I did a sub-speciality Fellowship in Corneal Tranplantations. Awesome microscopic surgery with up to 12-0 nylon sutures. Good stuff! I was in Baghdad in the fall of 2023 (actually August into December) when Hamas went over the wall and all hell broke out. My good buddy was with me and he's a neurosurgeon and that dude is sooo calm and cool under pressure. We had a few guys come in with 2 to 3 inch pieces of metal shrapnel straight through their skulls into their brains and he was operating like it was an infected toenail or something. Nerves of steel. I felt like an intern next to him! And I so love climbing with my kiddos. When I was younger I used to think that there was nothing better than climbing with a good rope-mate, just two buddies swinging leads, but now I know that climbing with your kids, esp on long alpine rock, is pure heaven on earth! |
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My 14 year old just wants to climb with her friends and teammates these days, luckily the wife still climbs with me... I will say I'm just psyched the kid is into it on her own and hopefully she can drag me up some 5.6 when I start getting closer to the dirt. |
M M wrote: My daughter is 13, and we bouldered together in the gym today. She likes climbing with her friend, but she couldn’t go today. I’m just glad that we have fun together, although she does tell me that Im “special” (I don’t think that is a compliment). |
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Ward , that sounds like a complement to me. Got out with Jim again today. Started out cold and brittle and got nice and sunny for our rappel. We did Float Like a Butterfly Land Like a Tomato. A sweet WI4. The direct start was fat and steep which adds some length to the climb. Me starting up P2  Jim coming up to belay   getting ready to head out on P3  apparently I am getting old and weak. Sewing up P3.....  the top belay was in the trees but its super windy up there and an awkward spot. I got freeze dried. Rapping from a fixed thread on our 2nd rappel.  that's Jims foot and I am the little dot on the end of the rope. Two party's climbing up below us...  A busy Sat afternoon... the direct start is just to the right of the rock buttress.  Climbers on Glass Menagerie WI5 I hope to get to lead this before its gone this year... I try to get on it at least once a year..  Willoughby Gap  |
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Nick, those are fantastic. So envious of those kinds of conditions out here in the too-sunny, too-warm, too-dry So Cal mountains. |
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Denali and Foraker (on the horizon) from Murphy Dome above Fairbanks this evening  |
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Colden beautiful picture. Nick saved the day for me as he did all of the leading. I haven’t really ice climbed in five years. Things worked out as my frIend texted that he was too sick to climb, Nick texted about 15 later and asked to climb I didn’t want him to boulder in these conditions so I said yes. it was a little cold and windy and I’m tired and sore but it’s always great to get outside and enjoy being with good friends |
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Jim, you saved the day. The ice has been so dry, brittle and hard that soloing hasn't been enjoyable lately.. |
Todd Berlier wrote: On a weekend, I can certainly go to Pipeworks, just not weekdays. Would be nice to climb together sometime. |
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For some strange reason, I love this picture. |
Todd Berlier wrote: That is a kick-arse photo! Just soooo much just plain right there! Is this a home gym? |
M M wrote: From around the age of 13 until she moved away my daughter spent most nice weekends out climbing with me. A lot of the time we had some of her young friends and teammates with us. They were eager to climb outside and learn about trad and I really enjoyed it. Definitely feel like I was a really lucky man. |
Todd Berlier wrote: Yeah, like most new hire Silicon Valley types, I’m working longer hours here during the week. Would be cool to climb together though. On the climbing front, I did mock leads with my new Neox. I’ve got a new local regular partner who wants to get lead certified as well. So, I’m playing the “beginner climber” and we plan to get certified sometime this upcoming coming month or so. This gym appears to only have two grades per YDS number. Such as 5.11- and 5.11+ 5.10+ is a hair more difficult than my previous gym cause the holds are slicker, but definitely feel on grade. 5.11+ is nearly doable. 5.12+ feels vaguely possible? V3 are relatively easy while V4 are day long projects . This one V7 has a few moves I should be able to work out? |
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Twice a night is nothing.... wait till your over 60... |
Nick Goldsmith wrote: This, and nice send Todd! |
