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Mark Hudon

Trad climber

Hood River, OR

Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 13, 2012 - 01:28pm PT

So Hudon - do you think about climbing all the time and want to be a dirt bag climber again - with the sweet sprinter van (dirt baging with style).
Me too...

I replied, "I could be a dirtbag so fast it would make your head spin".

Mark Hudon

Trad climber

Hood River, OR

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2012 - 01:34pm PT

Hopefully, you'll be seeing this type of photo a lot in the future.

Reeotch

Trad climber

4 Corners Area

Dec 13, 2012 - 01:38pm PT

So, then, what's stopping you!

Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber

San Francisco

Dec 13, 2012 - 01:41pm PT

I hope my dream of having the extended summer will become a reality in 2013. Good luck to you guys too. You live only once right?

Mark Hudon

Trad climber

Hood River, OR

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2012 - 01:44pm PT

Here is an important life tip.

Don't miss your 20s.

There is plenty of time to work later but you are never going to have a better body and be freerer than you are when you are that age.

Reeotch

Trad climber

4 Corners Area

Dec 13, 2012 - 01:47pm PT

Don't miss your 20s.

Hell, don't miss your 30s either. Words to live by young uns. Avoid debt and you'll be dirtbaggin it for much longer, too . . .

briham89

Big Wall climber

san jose, ca

Dec 13, 2012 - 01:52pm PT

Don't miss your 20s.

There is plenty of time to work later but you are never going to have a better body and be freerer than you are when you are that age.

Thank you sir. I turn 23 in 7 days and graduate from college in May. I quit my internship I hated, just started as a climbing guide, and am still currently looking for a dirtbag mobile for this summer....the stoke is high

micronut

Trad climber

Dec 13, 2012 - 02:02pm PT

Mark in ten years. In the Meadow. The day after coming off The Reticent Wall. For the sixth time.

Mark Hudon

Trad climber

Hood River, OR

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2012 - 02:02pm PT

Hey, Ron, how about raining on someone else's parade today and not this one, eh?

micronut

Trad climber

Dec 13, 2012 - 02:07pm PT

Micronut in 20 years after selling his practice and buying a wagon to live the dirtbag life after being inspired to do so by Hudon and Max.

briham89

Big Wall climber

san jose, ca

Dec 13, 2012 - 02:23pm PT

LOL micronut

Eric Beck

Sport climber

Bishop, California

Dec 13, 2012 - 02:24pm PT

Don't miss your 20s.

There is plenty of time to work later but you are never going to have a better body and be freerer than you are when you are that age.

This point should have been brought out on the otherwise thoughtful thread on forks in the road. The standard route, school, job, wife, mortgage and dogs is great for enhancing the national GDP, but except for a very few individuals, nothing in the work world will ever come close to a good climb.

Mark Hudon

Trad climber

Hood River, OR

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2012 - 02:24pm PT

Yeah, don't be stupid about it but…

Mungeclimber

Trad climber

the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.

Dec 13, 2012 - 02:31pm PT

I wouldn't mind being a dirtbag, if I had full health insurance and full retirement guaranteed.

But that's not really dirtbagging is it?

What is the definition of dirtbagging?

bvb

Social climber

flagstaff arizona

Dec 13, 2012 - 02:31pm PT

Here is an important life tip.

Don't miss your 20s.

There is plenty of time to work later but you are never going to have a better body and be freerer than you are when you are that age.

A-f*#king-men. I did not get anything that resembled a "real" job until 1986. I was 28 years old, and it was a job that allowed me to climb on real rock, outdoors, everyday. My next job was a completely unsupervised stint with the NPS in Yosemite, where I would often barrel out of the office where I worked alone, walk ten minutes to Sunnyside Bench, solo Sunnyside Jam Crack, and be back in my office 45 minutes later. In actuality, in terms of daily access to and real-life frequency of climbing, I managed to stretch my 20's well into my late 30's.

My teen years, of course, were a total free-for-all.