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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 1, 2017 - 10:03am PT
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Happy New Year folks, and for our substantial geezer population, here's a celebration of keeping on keeping on.
https://vimeo.com/197621404
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Rolfr
Trad climber
La Quinta and Penticton BC
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Nice, thanks for posting.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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thx rgold! Dig it!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I aspire to be one of those guys, but I have a long ways to go!
Brilliant!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Life-affirming, wonder-ful....
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Terrific video, Rich! Reminds me a little of the one of Fred Arschenbault doing 20 pull-ups in New Hampshire at 89. Maybe you and Donini can be featured in one in a few years!
;>)
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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^^^
Awesome!
I liked the spots in the vid too!
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Thanks brother rgold!
Not pulling down hard enough, or often enough, but still pulling down.
All hail the geezers, the puppies will be there soon enough!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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You're never too old to learn the heel hook, jogill!
Thank you, RG!
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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You're never too old to learn the heel hook, jogill!
Jungle gymnastics. Always will be!
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Thanks for that one rgold
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nah000
climber
no/w/here
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Blondie is a phenomenon...
tfpu.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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Sweet share. Thanks!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Why Knot?
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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I really enjoyed that. Their psyche is infectious!
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 1, 2017 - 08:21pm PT
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This in the same vein, beautiful, far more bittersweet, with the love of climbing just as inspiring I think...
https://vimeo.com/195921976,
and of course there is a day with Fred in the Dolomites,
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Great, great stuff. It will be 40 years on the rock next year. I'm no great climber, but as long as I can, I'm on it.
Keep the faith, one and all.
Here's to many great pitches this year!
BAd
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 1, 2017 - 09:18pm PT
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My 60th climbing anniversary is this July. I climb with a similarly superannuated group of old-timers at a gym in Poughkeepsie (we don't have any 80 year-olds yet, but there are a few in our 70's). We've dubbed ourselves the Assisted Living Climbing Team, but have neither the T-shirts nor the living arrangements to justify the name.
I started out on the Grand Teton,
and if health and other imponderables allow it, I'm hoping to return to the Tetons this summer for a little celebration.
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