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chefer
Trad climber
Altadena, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 6, 2017 - 07:16pm PT
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Started climbing in a gym (i know, i know...) when I was 14 or 15, so about two years ago. Quickly started bugging my mom to drop me off in the mountains for the weekend so i could camp and go climbing. I got a car over the summer which meant a lot more climbing for me! Now i try to go to joshua tree every weekend I can. None of my friends have any interest in trad climbing which means i have to find a partner every time I go. Ive met a lot of interesting folks out there in the rocks...
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ecdh
climber
the east
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Age 10. My dad and i paddled a day up an estuary then he soloed a random outcrop and brought me up second on an old surf rescue rope. 1984.
Ive climbed first ascents in asia more times than ive been indoors. Do what you enjoy.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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So long ago I don't remember
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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1977 . . . fifteen years old. Thanks to my mentors!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Can't remember when but I do recall that the first time I climbed the Captain the crux move was getting across the berschrund from the remnant glacier at the base to the rock.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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1963 age 7
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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1953 at 16. Natural fiber rope & JCHiggins boots. Quit a few years ago with no regrets - shoulders and back problems.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jaybro
Any pictures? Oops! My Bad. Cameras weren't even invented then. . .
I kneed to go back and reed my history buks.
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Byran
climber
Half Dome Village
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Wow, everyone started so young. I started at age 18, which was 11 years ago. Back then we had to belay with the GriGri 1.
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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1968 with dad and the infamous Ledge Rats from Baltimore on Old Rag in the Shenadoah.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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Can't remember when but I do recall that the first time I climbed the Captain the crux move was getting across the berschrund from the remnant glacier at the base to the rock.
I believe that...
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Mimi
climber
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Summer, 1976, 16 years old. Camp Glen Arden, Tuxedo, NC, Potato Hill slab blindfolded on TR and several Table Rock routes at Linville Gorge. Fun times in the Apps! Next stop AZ.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jim - is it true that you taught Dulfer how to rappel?
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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took a bouldering fall when I was 5 that was good for 5 stitches. did a lot of scrambleing on the rocks above the horse pasture and some failed rappelling there when i was a kid. I consider my first real climb to be a scramble up Teewinot in 1981.
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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1973 first time then really 1982.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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1978 age 15.
Led 'Betty' (by accident; no guidebook) in the Gunks on a Goldline 120' cord, a standing hip belay, a few slings and some hexes and a few steel biners and a bowline on a coil (which made that short rope even shorter).
Was shocked to find a fixed piton. Shocked. Wanted to take the free gear home but (fortunately) didn't have a hammer.
Did both pitches and never tied in at the belay ledge (who would even get pulled off that thing?) or at the top.
Rappelled the route to descend because that's what real climbers do. The doubled rope was too short to reach the big belay ledge so I just jumped the final 8 feet. No biggie.
Lucky to be alive.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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1980 at age 28
I started late. I love it as much now as I did then.
Congrats to the OP for getting out there.
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WyoRockMan
climber
Grizzlyville, WY
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Started in 1978, age 6.
Was into the wide by age 7.
and so on and so forth.
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