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New and Experienced Climbers over 50 #44
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Great rodeo photos Nick. What a job being a rodeo clown. I am going to have to do a new highball boulder ascent just so I can name it Rodeo Clown. I love the barrels they have to jump in.. Hopefully nobody got too mangled. |
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Takes a special kind of crazy to ride a 2000 pound pissed off bull. Ever been to a Mexican rodeo? They do some crazy stuff as well. |
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Trying out the new knees yesterday at 10,000 feet. There is a massive fish in the photo, rivals all those that Bob posts up.  It was so nice to be cold up there after the last few weeks of humid heat in LA. |
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Bit of a climbing video in the link below of my recent trip to Araps/Gramps. (Don't mention the trade war) https://youtu.be/BAgMh3KNp7A?si=NjCgtmwcPc4ykjqv  |
 So at 58, I got a daith piercing. My youngest has her ears pierced three times on each ear and after the latest one she suggested that I get one--more like she challenged me to do it, thinking I wouldn't. She researched all the different ones and we decided on this one because it's well hidden (don't want to offend clients that will make assumptions about my character/politics) and it has a similar pain level and healing time as hers--conch. Now we bond at night cleaning the blood and ooze from each others piercings. |
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I have three in my left ear, since 1984 or so. Had one done but everybody had one so got two then saw some with two so went for three and stopped.In those days which ear you had done indicated your sexual proclivity, left being straight. Gauging the lobe, in men or women is something I don't care for. |
Kevinmurray wrote: I went left as well for that somewhat old school cultural norm. Been obsessed with this song:  To me the song is about searching for the enlightenment that a christian god provides some in the context of a violent world. The band themselves are all devout Christians and the subject is prominent in their lyrics. This live version is really good, imo. The guitar finger picking is fun to listen too, as well |
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I got my ears pierced about a year ago. I had a sudden inclination to do it. I had got my left ear pierced when I was about 16, but I tried back then to immediately take out the stud and put in a ring and it didn’t work of course as it wasn’t healed. Back then they used a piercing ‘gun’ too. So I got my left, then another left, then my right as well then also the top of my ear. My favourite earrings are black rings and I also like my moonstone and gold studs. I also like my silver dangly love heart. Cindy says it’s gay. I tell her to fuck off.  |
   Pics from around camp this weekend. Credit Howard B. Sheesh I'm gone three days and the ants throw a party! I sit at my desk for ten minutes a spider builds a web on me. I don't think they were expecting me back. |
 This is an FA I did about 4 years ago--left side (the main face is a v10/11 a buddy did. After the Caples fire that green hillside in the background and almost all around the boulder was charred. Now it's impassable scrub. This boulder was spared from any direct heat--still live pines downhill. There's a small level shoulder of pines (edit: leading to it from a steep hillside) that didn't burn that I've spent my last few days building a trail to this guy to repeat this climb. Since the top comes to a point TR rehearsal was difficult, so I put 2 bolts on it. I thought I would get the trail done, come back and rework it and do it. But, yesterday, I was too intimidated by the crux: a dead point almost dyno that goes to black horizontal just below the first step on the left, from the short black diagonal below it. Did it 4/5 tries on a rope, but the idea of falling there alone with no reception and a mile uphill back to the car was too much for my brain. First 4 tries went so well I was able to overshoot it, but the fifth go my right hand dry fired and I fell abruptly and out of control. And immediately lowered and packed up and left. Overall height is 30 feet, but it's v2 after the long move for the last 10. Now I have to find more pads and spotters and people willing to drive 4 miles of slow dirt road and walk a mile down 600 feet for 1 problem. |
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Sounds like my kind of thing Todd, but I’m on the wrong side of the country. |
Carl Schneider wrote: Carl showing the danger of unevenly applied ear adornments |
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It's been a good summer here, if a little hotter than I wanted. I had hoped to take off for a visit with my family, but one thing after another and I'm still here. I really wanted to visit my kids, and go for some long swims, I may still have that trip but summer is passing by quickly. Tony is not having a good time in Chicago. HIs family has changed, (or he has changed), that sort of idyllic vacation he was counting on had some monkey wrenches. I've had that happen, too. We grow. He has gotten a couple of "Chicago hot dogs", and some pizza which is apparently a big deal. Here is a highlight. A local here in Josh managed to grow his tomatoes and basil this year in this cage... no worms, no rodents. So, fresh hope for next year.  Also, I made a new friend. This little guy just meets up with me some days on my hiking trail, walks alongside, we talk. Then he digs in the dirt a bit and takes a dirt bath. Tony has begged me to feed him, or at least bring him water. Something in me says 'no'... I think he's doing fine without my help. Although Google says crickets would be a bird-friendly treat... it's hard for me to imagine hiking with a pocket full of crickets.  So, I got the notion to use my cave/alcove to work on my stemming without a rope. This is the hardest kind of climbing for me... hard on the hips, surprisingly hard on the triceps, and hard on the brain. It takes such concentration to keep track of 4 limbs at once, pressing both legs and arms into their respective walls equally. So, doing this daily is at least sharpening those skills and I'm looking forward to climbing some stemming routes in a few weeks. I've turned it into an isometric exercise, seeing how long I can hold that position. I have every opportunity to go to the gym, but I keep veering back into the desert and creating little workouts directly on rock. I suspect that will change when I next get out to climb and discover that I’m not nearly strong enough.  |
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Nice circuit Lorie. real rock rocks.. A bouldering circuit at a grade that you can treat like a solo so that you don't ever fall and get hurt but you can do laps on until you are toasty is a good way to build flow and endurance. |
Todd Berlier wrote: I should add I'm not espousing or saying anything negative about the christian religion. As a raised catholic now agnostic I've always been fascinated by songs that deal with the questioning of god/religion. |
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Since July I've put up five new routes at what we call Chipmunk Flat, an area near Sonora Pass. They're all above a terrace located 200 yards from Highway 108 (Sonora Pass Highway). They're pretty good climbs, all between 60 and 110 feet long and all get stars (on a three star system). They're protected by gear and bolts. It takes a separate 5.2 approach to get onto the terrace in the first place. This is probably the reason such nice rock has been "hiding in plain sight" for years. The five route names share a theme. I wonder if anyone in this very diverse crowd can come up with it? Make Way 5.2 * Time to Think 5.10a *** Stay Awhile 5.10b ** Back in Town 5.8 *** At Large 5.10d ** First lead of Time to Think (Make Way is the corner to the left):  First Lead of Back in Town:  |
M Sprague wrote: Ha ha! |
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Senility? |
 Short rib Taint Sonora select Low dog Neither |
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^^^ Pretty clever, Daniel and you definitely got it. I guess most of us were kids in the '60s and we all remember and love that music. Even some of the stuff that wasn't rock and roll? And Phil, senility? No, that came later ;) |
