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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Apr 17, 2010 - 01:14am PT
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Tripl 7:
Times have changed!
And damn few people know how bad a chicken coop full of chicken sh#t smells.
Real bad!
I visited a few-------- and thank goddess I never had to clean one out.
Oh! 7 summits at 13.
The previous 7 summits record was 16? The next is 8?
What about giving birth on all 7 summits?
A new record?
I'm feeling old now.
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Tan Slacks
climber
Joshua Tree
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Apr 17, 2010 - 01:47am PT
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I have tried to read all the posts to this point, I may have missed some along the way..
I have known Jordan since his birth and his father for the last 16 years. To say Jordan is unique would be an understatement. He has been one of the most focused kids I have ever known... not because his father tells him too, but because that's who Jordan is.. He has had many interests other than climbing in his life so far and his father has been there to support every one.. 100%
One never knows with children what they are doing for themselves and what they are doing to please others (parents), but as a parent of a daughter a little older than Jordan, I can tell you that I do the same thing. My daughter wanted to Scuba dive at nine.. and we found away. It scared me to see her do it so I learned too.. together we have gone on many dive trips that some would have thought foolish because of her age.
Perhaps it is because I came from a set of parents that were too busy with themselves to support me in anything. Asking my parents to do diddly squat with me would have been impossible. So instead I was on the street at fifteen. I had no turn around time from the summit, no one watching my belay... so what's more dangerous? A parent trying to support your kids dreams or one that could care less?
I had dreams of climbing Everest as a youth... In 1979 I tried Denali.. didn't make it.. Of course I was rubbing two sticks together for funds and couldn't raise my family on the phone, I'm not even sure they would have accepted the charges.
I won't try and describe the journey that Jordan, Paul or Karen are on... it's theirs and they are doing it in a style that would surprise many of you. We are wishing them the safest travels and most important a safe return.
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TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
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Apr 17, 2010 - 02:44am PT
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"We are wishing them the safest travels and most important a safe return."
Bottom line^^^^!
I was fortunate to have caring and loving parents, evident by the sacrifices they personally made to raise four kids. My father was carpenter and my mother a housewife(often worked as a maid to make ends meet)and money was often scarce.
There were many kids in SLC who had the latest ski equipment and so forth(kids were chaufferred to school in RR's and Bentley's). One gal was given a Shelby Cobra at 15 1/2 yrs. old, another recieved a new Mustang conv. for 9th grade grad. etc.
But were they loved?
At the time of my above story(1961)we had just migrated from Cali, and where living with my older sister and her husband. My father found a job working for several winters/years as a carpenter at the new ski area being built in the Wasatch Range, Park City.
Just living in America is an honor, compared to many other less fortunate countries(materially) of course.
I wouldn't have changed my financial status as a youth(except to lessen the hardships on my folks)...money isn't everything.
I didn't mean to detract from Jordan's accomplishments etc.
GO JORDAN!!!
I will keep you in my prayers Bro!!
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