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New and Experienced Climbers over 50 #39
 We started hiking a few hours before sunrise and a few miles up the trail experienced a brief but intense thunderstorm. Our goal was to link Merriam, Royce, and Feather Peaks then descend into the Bear Lakes and return over Granite Bear Pass. We briefly considered bailing but were energized by the lightning and thunder. Our reward was an incredible sunrise followed by a beautiful day climbing gorgeous peaks in an incredible place.    |
Guy Keeseewrote: One of my new Climbing partners is trying to sell me on trout. Never done it before? |
Bb Cc wrote: I was climbing with my wife and daughter at Rumney this weekend (we just got back). We camped at the campground across the street, which has river access. It was warm enough that we put on our suits and went in. Washed up from the river i found this:  I can't recall the last time i saw one, but it brought back so many memories from the Seventies. GO |
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Did you get on your project Gabe? If so, how did it go? Good weekend to be at Rumney, I'm sure. |
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so much garbage on our road back in the 60s and 70s. every spring we loaded up our farm tractor trailer from the pull offs at either end of our 1 mile loop road and did a dump run. favorite drinking and dumping spots. I remember a shit ton of Shlitz and Carling Black Lable cans and bottles. I never had the opportunity to taste either one of those beers as a teenager and adult.. I think they both had disappeared by the time I started drinking in 1976? |
Alan Rubinwrote: It was gorgeous! A bit warm for climbing though, actually. On the way home the car said it was 87 outside. 87 in NH in late September. How bonkers is that! I did not get on Mushroom planet. Would not have been a good choice with the wife and kid. We did spend some time at the Apocalypse Wall, where Allison got close to sending Supreme Onion Sacrifice, and I tried a new route for me: The Good Earth. I hung a lot, but got all the moves. I liked it, and think it could be another worthy project for me. By the way, Allison, god bless her, had never seen a pull tab before. Sometimes i do feel old. GO |
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I just got back from a 4 day photo road trip down to Woodstock and killington. Just finished editing and uploading 3k horse photos. I did get to play some music and climbed sat and sunday afternoons. Sat I had the cliff all to myself. My shadow pointing to the line I am about to climb.  the view from the top  I did a nice 3 mile hike and then jumped in the lake. Today the cliff was busy.  but the line I wanted was free when I got up there. I got 4 laps ln. Ran into my Friends Wayne and Annette from MA that was a surprise. Wayne took this shot of me.  I saw this cool Vulture earlier in the day while I was working. Perhaps it's part albino?  |
Nick Goldsmithwrote: I think they were still around then Nick. I have generally liked darker beers (stout particularly), but I remember them when I was in high school ( think I am a few years younger than you, B 1964) the Schlitz I remember as some thing we would drink while haying in the sun in place of water, but it wasn't bad. I think it was around to maybe the early 80s when they closed ( later restarted under another brewer) The Carling I think was stronger, with more bite. At the time in RI the high school beers were Haffenreffer (pretty nasty but strong if I remember right) and Narragansett. At the time Molson was popular (gross imo) I have never been a big drinker, but in later high school... I could pretty easily hang outside a liquor store and quickly get somebody to buy it for me with no issues. In those days it wasn't that hard to find a place where you wouldn't even likely get carded, even though I doubt I looked 18. I think I only got kicked out once and that was bc I was shitfaced and said something rude to the waitress about the fat owner who turned out to be her husband. |
Guy Keeseewrote: Hello Guy. Sounds like you're having a ton of fun. We actually aren't very hush hush about the new stuff we're developing. We do prefer to "take you there" though rather than publish it on the internet. Mostly. I tend to post some stuff to this site if/when most of us feel like we're done developing there. And I've posted hundreds of newer routes to the rarely-visited sonorapassclimbing.com site (not my site - the guy who runs it climbs up here a lot too). So come check our stuff out if/when you are climbing/able to climb. We'll give you a grand tour. The shower/dinner offer stands too and really is ongoing to any climber that wishes to hang out up here. We've got plenty of parking and two extra rooms and my wife is very, very used to feeding climbers (all of them - planned visitors and those who just stop by). Having said that, I should also say that it's always a best-bet food-wise if Vicki is here and she's leaving tomorrow for a week-long train excursion with my mom (I am a terrible cook because I don't care about cooking and/or much about food).   |
Nick Goldsmithwrote: That's 3,000 horse photos in four days!!?? Man, film really is cheap these days! Good job on getting them uploaded and edited. I have to do that very soon after I take them or it doesn't get done. |
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The beers of choice in my VT high school was Bud, Michelob,Molson and Heineken. I worked in a restaurant / bar so beer was free at work and by the time I was 15 I could buy beer at the Killington Market. Drinking age was 18 and no one cared.. I don't really have a choice on the editing and uploading. It's work.  this is a shot from Saturday  |
Mark E Dixonwrote: Yes! Took my youngest two kiddos to Magic Wood about 5 or 6 years ago! Truly a Magical Place, although my kiddos named it Magic WEED as EVERYONE was smoking dope 24 hours a day! ;) We camped at the Bodhi Campground and what an environment! So friendly with a ton of world class climbers just getting stoned out of their minds and climbing soooo hard! As for lower grades: What lower grades??? ;) I managed to send about 8 routes over three days!!! And the falls were often death falls! But still I would go back as it was truly unbelievably great! And my wife and kiddos loved hiking there and the river was amazing. Just a heavenly place. But if you're in that region, Ticino is possibly even better! Also so so so great!  |
Nick Goldsmithwrote: You certainly know how to capture action! Cool photos! |
C Miller wrote: Wow! That brings back memories! My Uncle Bud (now long swince dead) used to drink Schlitz all the time and I totally remember being a really, really young kid (I was born in '72) and he giving me sips of it! Kind of an off-color meme but I saw it one time and I was like "Shite, that's just like me with my Uncle Bud!".  |
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'Off color'? Hardly. That meme speaks truth, no matter how many knots in the skivvys of the thin-skinned it might create. My first taste of beer as a single-digit kid was my grandfather's Budweiser while barbecuing on the patio with a Dodgers game on the transistor radio. Fortunately my taste in beer developed far beyond that. |
apogeewrote: lol For me it was sips from my grandpa’s and uncles’ Pabst Blue Ribbon, they would also make necklaces for us with the pull tabs. |
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When growing up in Czech, grandparents would send me down to the pub down the street with an empty pitcher or two to bring back filled for Sunday lunch. I was around six or eight years-old, so didn’t care much for the taste, but man did I love the smell of the freshly pulled draft and the smoky pub in general. Of course, I’d get to keep the change :-) |
 The pub. Hasn’t changed much in fifty years. |
 It is feeling like bouldering season. |
Nick Goldsmithwrote: Nick, that horse's colors seem most unusual - an almost orange coat with a blonde mane and tail. Is that all natural coloring, or is it a lighting effect? Is it a special breed? It sort of looks like a palomino, but the coat doesn't look right. |
