New and Experienced Climbers over 50 #42

Great shot Helen. he looks like he is full of light and joy in that picture. 

Old lady Hwrote:

Don't have much to offer, but, temps here are definitely creeping into the "let's go bouldering!" category. High 40s. Not much sun, though. And, no winter. At all. The ground finally froze, when it dipped into the 20s overnights. Dry dry dry, too. I'm actually a little worried about plants. Dry ground, frozen, no moisture..... that's hard on stuff. It's looking pretty dessicated out there. Oh well. We'll see.

Here's a good winter pic of a pic for you photogs out there, though! My (now deceased) photojournalist hubby, way back, on the job. Probably 1980? Must've been something needing lots of coverage, with a second person taking pics! That was really rare. Maybe an intern or something.

If anyone needs to know, cameras would be a Nikon/Nikor combo, for bodies and lenses. He had a lot, plus a bunch of other cameras too. He was a photographer from a young age. One of the many things he was quite good at.

Helen

Cool photo. Looks like a skier in the background. 

It’s a dry and warm winter here too. It’s consistently been at least 60f at valley floor elevations. 

Nick Goldsmithwrote:

Great shot Helen. he looks like he is full of light and joy in that picture. 

Yeah, he had a pretty great life....until he didn't. 

When it came time for me to sell what was still left? He had quite a lot of photography stuff, many guitars, quite a few handguns, some rifles, an inordinate amount of essential oils, many tins of tea, a small fortune in soft pastels....basically, once he was interested in something, he went for it full tilt!

He only ever owned half of a plane, though, lol! But he got up into multi engine license wise. That pilot's license let the newspaper photog get cameras, or himself, into some fun places, including the cockpit of the Goodyear blimp!

Helen

Daniel Shivelywrote:

Cool photo. Looks like a skier in the background. 

It’s a dry and warm winter here too. It’s consistently been at least 60f at valley floor elevations. 

Up at the local ski area, for sure. My only question would be if this was pre1980, in Ashland Oregon, or, I'm pretty sure, this would be up at Bogus Basin, outside of Boise. Which, btw, is relying on manufactured snow plus some snow saved over from last year, to have any skiing at all. The last year snow, was under a new thing, a blanket to hold it frozen through the summer. Scary stuff.

Boise is about 2500 feet, ski area, I dunno, maybe 5, 6000ish?  

H.

Nice picture Helen. 1980. We were all so young.

The camera behind his back is an F3 the one he is holding looks like an F4 which did not come out untill 1988 but its hard to tell with all that snow on it.?

Out at Josh this afternoon with our youngest, Samantha, who is visiting from a very cold NYC.

Took a shot of Sarah on Gunsmoke with Sam today, 23 years after the first one was taken.

Norm Larsonwrote:

Nice picture Helen. 1980. We were all so young.

I was 19, but the funny thing is that I didn’t feel so young.  I had graduated early from high school, had been across the country to go climbing twice, and was on my first trip to Alaska that Summer.  I thought that I was all grown up lol.

-21f -29.5c

Ward Smithwrote:

I was 19, but the funny thing is that I didn’t feel so young.  I had graduated early from high school, had been across the country to go climbing twice, and was on my first trip to Alaska that Summer.  I thought that I was all grown up lol.

Thats funny Ward. I was 26 that year and also went on my first climb in the Alaska Range and I too felt so grown up. Now that I am 71 I sometimes feel like I am still 26 and have so much to learn..

Norm Larsonwrote:

Thats funny Ward. I was 26 that year and also went on my first climb in Alaska and I too felt so grown up. Now that I am 71 I sometimes I still feel like I am still 26 and have so much to learn..

I once read, and have observed many times, that climbing is one of the few activities, where you can often observe teenagers and 'geriatrics' interacting, let alone treating each other as equals. The writer surmised this was because all climbers are inherently '18'---the younger ones are mature for their age, the rest ......!!!!

In other news, I see that, as I guessed he would, Punxutawney ( sorry if I spelled it wrong, Daniel) Phil saw his shadow this morning---meaning 6 more weeks of winter ( or non-winter for those of you out west)!!!! It actually may warm up to 'freezing' here today---first time in around 10 days!!! Won't last long---back into the deep freeze by the weekend.

Mt Aintsupposedtatellya

Andrew Leafwrote:

On that City of Rocks topic. Is there a meetup this year in June? Which week? Was trying to talk some friends into heading out there.

Hey so sorry!

Got your message, sent a reply.

The short answer, to anyone interested, is I have no idea about anyone's plans for COR this year. Sorry!

Get your friends to go anyway, that place never disappoints!

Helen

Possibly Shiprock NC? 

Shiprock NC

Seneca? 

Top of south Peak

This must be Pleasant Overhangs @ seneca

Rose Crack Bolton VT

East face of Seneca

 some old shots I just ran across. When we were young... 

Want to share a few 'where's' about those pictures, Nick? A couple look like Seneca, but can't ID the rest.

Alan. I did an edit. 

Thanks Nick. Though wondering if #5 is Pleasant Overgangs. Doesn't have that 'Seneca look'.

I wish I could figure out how to digitize my old slides ( beyond my tech competence level). I just came across some boxes from an early '80s trip to the Seneca area that would be fun to post--especially routes such as Psychotic Reaction at Champe--one of the best climbs in the region and a possible FA on a pinnacle at North Fork Mt. Maybe some day!!!!

It’s wonderful seeing so many pictures of ice and snow and you great climbers all over it. Thank you for the update on Hugi Nick!  

Meanwhile, it’s been gorgeous here. The sun has really lifted my spirits this week.

This morning, I listened to a clip by my favorite tech, CEO, Jensen Huang—in essence he said he works “insanely hard“ every day, and he enjoys it.  He enjoys the challenges and the accomplishments. You can tell it brings him great joy .He’s 62 years old.

I think it is a mistake to advise seniors to leave everything behind, all passions and endeavors and coast slowly right into the grave.  This rock I was on today is not “insanely hard” for anyone but me, but I kept Jensen’s words at the top of my brain while I was climbing. I was so glad for the honor of working on it. I got within 5 feet of the top and could not climb another inch. I was just so exhausted. But I am calling it a victory having come so close and I will be back to work on it some more this week.  I think we all need the “hard” to keep us engaged with the world and out of trouble. 

(Pic by Bob Gaines)

Alan Rubinwrote:

I wish I could figure out how to digitize my old slides ( beyond my tech competence level). I just came across some boxes from an early '80s trip to the Seneca area that would be fun to post--especially routes such as Psychotic Reaction at Champe--one of the best climbs in the region and a possible FA on a pinnacle at North Fork Mt. Maybe some day!!!!

You posted this question in the climbing photography forum a while ago. I shared my experience, but my post was months after you started the thread. I think I started with "better late than never." Anyway, for me it was a great solution, and it's the last post here if you missed it: https://www.mountainproject.com/forum/topic/200512446/slide-to-digital#ForumMessage-201821970

I took on the project of digitizing all of my slides a few years ago- about 12 carousels of 140/each, and a bunch of prints. I wasn’t looking for archival-quality- just wanted to get them in a format that I could easily view…it had been decades since I’d seen any of them. I used a service creatively named ScanMyPhotos (they’re in Irvine).

The real work was in cleaning them up a bit, then when I received the digital files, going through them in Adobe Bridge and entering metadata, keywords, and a logical file name. It was a lot of effort, but along the way I had to view most all of them, so it served the purpose.

And a couple years later a bunch of my parents slides and photos came my way, and I got to do it all over again. Likewise, that was a nice tour through their history (and mine), and was well worth the time.