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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Aug 18, 2017 - 12:30pm PT
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Cool article.
At 78:
It was the last lead.
I continue to climb, filled with toprope courage and gratitude to still be able to do something I love, so satisfying to body, mind and soul. Yes, there is noticeably less anandamide (and adrenaline) coursing through my system, but I’ve recently discovered that CBD hemp oil helps my hands, and every day I better appreciate Robert Frost’s wisdom: “The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” .
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Aug 18, 2017 - 12:40pm PT
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Thank you for posting that....
Yes we are all getting older and facing the same things as Dick is.
One of my earliest climbing memories is looking at a Summit Mag (or maybe Climbing) and reading about a new climb on 1/2 Dome.... that Dick and Robbins had recently completed.... it was from Dicks point of view and I got the scene that he thought it was a stupid climb, dirty and sort of pointless ...
He wanted to call it "The Dog" but Royal was having none of it.
I wanted to be just like Dick... all muscles and hair and climbing everyday.
I still do... leading till 70ish is not bad, we all have our time.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Aug 18, 2017 - 12:48pm PT
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Amen.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 18, 2017 - 12:48pm PT
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There will be a last lead just as surely as there was a first one. I am proud to call Dick a friend and I am pleased that he put his gifted pen to paper to ease the way for us all. I'm still tying into the sharp end with hopes for a few more years of seeing the gear disappear below me...not too far, mind you.
The "last lead" should be required reading for most folks here....myself included.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Aug 18, 2017 - 06:54pm PT
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Good stuff D.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 18, 2017 - 08:06pm PT
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"Don't cry because it's over smile because it happened" - Dr. Seuss
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Aug 18, 2017 - 09:03pm PT
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Excellent and important article. That fellow has had quite the climbing life. Fitzroy 50 years ago! Wow.
BAd
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 18, 2017 - 09:06pm PT
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Dick was also the first human to be clocked at over 100 mph on skis.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Aug 18, 2017 - 10:46pm PT
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I always appreciate Dorworth's writing, and I too can see that there will be a "last lead."
Best wishes to all of you on your way to it! and those that have already done theirs.
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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Aug 19, 2017 - 03:13am PT
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Really good writing,
Slowing down is never easy.
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norm larson
climber
wilson, wyoming
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Aug 19, 2017 - 05:06am PT
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Thanks Charlie for posting that and thanks to Dick for ALL of his writing. Dick I hope to run in to you again soon at the City or Castle Rock. For sure it'll be an "afternoon" meeting for both of us.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 19, 2017 - 05:14am PT
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WOW,
Climb Safe Climb Smart Climb Forever. . . .(almost , eh?, Yeti ! )
There's the grist of it.
As we all must face the battles of existence, I'm glad to have read
Words that share both, drive & comforting resiliency, while starkly facing
The Simple Truth, -Change is. . . . time passes-
CLIMB ON ,
Ahh yes,
the Afternoon realizes what only barley dawned on the morning.
(Thnx Doc,)
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TomKimbrough
Social climber
Salt Lake City
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Aug 19, 2017 - 06:45am PT
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Afternoon? It's looking like late evening to me. Still, I hope to head to Skaha with Beck next month.
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Aug 19, 2017 - 06:53am PT
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Reminds me of Don Whillian's last climb, although he wasn't that old. Lifestyle caught up to him. I think I can handle the last lead/last climb when it comes as long as I had hike/walk/bike. Just got back from a simple hike in the High Sierra, and, well, if there's no technical climbing in my future, I'm okay with this in its place:
BAd
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 19, 2017 - 11:44am PT
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Dick is one of the best, most thoughtful of writers on the outdoors.
He's been a journalist for years up Idaho way.
I was in the crowd when he first presented the Funhog Expedition to climbers in YV at the Visitor Center in the fall of '70, urging us to seek out the far places, the hidden places.
TIME
Posted on July 28, 2017
“We say that time is money, meaning both are valuable. Both are a form of power. Usually, there is a reciprocal relationship between them; that is, abundance of money seems to go along with a shortage of time, and abundance of time with shortage of money. Money is the wealth of the materialist, and works miracles in the realm of the physical. Time is the wealth of the pilgrim, and works miracles in all realms.”
Ed Buryn
In weekday morning traffic anywhere in America it is possible to observe and be wary of drivers talking and texting on their cell phones, tailgating those observing speed limits and passing at every available space in the bumper to bumper traffic as if the 30 seconds sooner they will reach their destinations are the most important moments in the history of time.
As if time has a history.
Or a future.
From one perspective such timeless observations of our fellow traffic-bound humans are hilarious, from another alarming. From any perspective they are worthy of contemplation and self-reflection. As a practical matter, clocks and calendars regulate the everyday life of most of mankind around the sequence of events we call time; but practicality and essential reality are not always on the same schedule, as the old adage “Timing is everything” points out.
Time is a concept, not a fixed reality, as relativity theory describes. Time is conceived by many as a commodity to be bartered and traded and consumed like pork bellies, or a storehouse to be filled to the rafters with the toys of experience or the juicy fruits of labor. I prefer the perspective of Henry David Thoreau who said both, “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in,” and “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
There are natural regulators called ‘biological clocks’ that govern aging and the rhythms of behavior, circadian cycles governing daily temperature and metabolism, and electrical rhythms in the human brain including the most prominent known as ‘alpha rhythms. But scientific efforts to locate a specific area of the brain that controls man’s sense of time have been unsuccessful. The concept of measured time is, thus, a human construct, a nifty piece of conceptual engineering.
The work of Einstein and others show that time is relative to the observer, causing the view of time as an independent entity to give way to the concept that space and time are intertwined and inseparable. Ultimately, it seems to me, the human concept of time is a mystery like life itself, best and most nutritiously experienced by slowing down and appreciating the moment rather than missing it in a race to reach a future destination 30 seconds sooner.
Eckhart Tolle perhaps expressed it best: “Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.”
--from DD's blog
http://www.dickdorworth.com/blog/
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 19, 2017 - 12:01pm PT
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Yeti
Trad climber
Ketchum, Idaho
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Aug 20, 2017 - 05:42am PT
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Thanks Charlie. Thanks all. I'm pleased this topic has garnered your attention. Good to think of Kimbrough and Beck still taking climbing trips. As it happens, yesterday was a good one spent in the company of the wonderful Michael Kennedy climbing near Bozeman. Michael, of course, was kind and able enough to take the lead. We got up some nice routes and made several very satisfying moves, and with a combined age of more than 140 years had a wealth of things to talk about. Thanks Michael. I am honored to belong to this keep on keepin' on tribe. Let us all persevere.......Yeti
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Aug 20, 2017 - 06:54am PT
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Yeti, it is wonderful to read your words. At 55, I'm a generation behind you but still feel time's winged chariot. I'm off to do some climbing this morning--and some leading as I'm able. Tallyho!
BAd
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Aug 22, 2017 - 02:50pm PT
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Great read. After experiencing some afternoon moments with what seems to be increasing frequency it's good to keep the Dr. Seuss quote in mind 😀
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