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Aeriq
Sport climber
100-year Visitor
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I’m in my 60s too. I’m a little fat but climbing still seems to work OK. It’s a happy medium.
Take care!
Please, Phyl - you are crushing it!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Won’t be 63 for a few more months, not fat but have certain limitations, working around ‘em....
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F10
Trad climber
Bishop
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I’m 63 also and luckily climbing still works for me. Maybe it’s because it’s all I know, since I started when I was 15. Good luck and stay active.
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - May 3, 2019 - 06:55am PT
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I expect that everyone who has been following this thread is coming to Facelift.
Right?
RIGHT?
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Don’t let the old man in, if you do he’ll never leave.
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kpinwalla2
Social climber
WA
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Just turned 60. It's not a dichotomy of being fatter and weaker and not climbing, vs being thin and strong and still climbing, it's about lowering your expectations and being satisfied with climbing what you can. Climb a 5.6 or a 5.4 or even a 5.1 (do those still exist?). I'm 35 lbs heavier than I was in my prime (and now have a fake knee), so I don't even look at 11's anymore and struggle on 10's, but 8's are still fun and there are plenty of those I haven't climbed. I've never really cared about the numbers, so I'm having as much fun as ever. Most of the folks I know that really cared about the numbers dropped out of climbing many years ago. And I'm living proof that you can still party and climb at 60, you just don't do either one at quite the same level - and life goes on...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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I expect that everyone who has been following this thread is coming to Facelift. Ha ha! There it is, at last: the redirect. And a pretty good one.
I knew the OP was at least partially a troll.
Though, the too scared to quit phrase IS excellent satire.
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Barbarian
Trad climber
Being held captive behind the Orange Curtain
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I was thinking about starting climbing...but then I'm just a young punk of 60.
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - May 3, 2019 - 02:51pm PT
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So that could be the third in a series in a series of bumper stickers:
#1- Old’s Cool
#2- My best vacation is your worst nightmare
#3- Too fat to climb, To scared to quit.
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Barbarian
Trad climber
Being held captive behind the Orange Curtain
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I'll order a #3!
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Does Donini attend?
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Trump
climber
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Getting older means that we have to try even harder if we want to satisfy our misplaced priorities.
Just move the goalposts. They were only figments of our imagination to begin with.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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#4 Sport Climbing- Alpinism's Answer to Menopause...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Or become a communist - same thing.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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how the hell did THIS ONE? become a thread of much delight
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I thought communism was all about eating somebody else's lunch.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Egad, I've actually been climbing for 62 years as of late July. Fortunately avoided getting fat, but fighting a losing battle against weakness. 5.12 and 5.11 are distant flecks in the rear-view mirror, 5.10 is receding fast, everything feels at least a grade harder, and joints are starting to signal their intention to power down.
But after all that time before the mast, it turns out I just like the activity. The physical motions, even the ropes and gear, and most of all, being outside in the kinds of splendid settings that only climbing affords. So I think I'll keep on puttering about for a while, as long as fate has in store for me, with gratitude for every day on the rocks I'm granted.
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