|
|
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Mid-life crisis, could be anywhere
Posts: 10,382
|
Any rock climbers?
Real quick before the hottie stripper shows up....
Any rock climbers here? Did my first climb out at Joshua Tree last weekend. I LIKE IT!!! Seems like a great sport. Physically challenging, beautiful, simple. A little slow, but hey, I could learn to slow down. Plus, I could turn on lots of girls to this new activity  Here I am at the summit of "Lazy Daze", a 5.7 climb.
__________________
'95 993 C4 Cabriolet Bunch of motorcycles |
||
05-14-2004, 08:53 PM
|
|
|
SCWDP- Shock and Awe Dept
|
Little late for Joshua Tree in May. I use to climb... well, a lot. Great sport, you won't feel like it's a slow sport when you do your first 5.11a, holly crap what a feeling. Of course taking a 20-30 ft ripper will get the juices flowing in more ways then one too. Be careful and have fun!
__________________
Ryan Williams, SCWDP '81 911SC Targa 3.6 '81 911SC Coupe 3.2 #811 '64 VW Camper Bus, lil' Blue |
||
|
05-14-2004, 09:04 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Peoples Republic of Long Beach, NY
Posts: 21,140
|
Re: Any rock climbers?
Quote:
But I did run into a world wide group of rock climbers in the early'80s at Yosemite. I hung with them for a couple of weeks. Anyway there are climbers who travel the world to climb the best rocks in the world. So all I can offer is a thought to visit Yosemite and see if this campground that was a tent only area is still available. The area was nick named "walk in". I believe you'll get a super education hanging with these multi national climbers day and night.
__________________
Ronin LB '77 911s 2.7 PMO E 8.5 SSI Monty MSD JPI w x6 |
||
|
05-14-2004, 10:26 PM
|
|
|
Feelin' Solexy
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: WA
Posts: 3,802
|
Former professional mountaineering guide here. Traditional rock climbing was never my thing, I'm more of an alpine guy, but have done my fair share of climbing. A fun sport! I ended up retiring because:
1) I was about to graduate from college and enter the work force (and buy a Porsche, of course) and 2) Had a major climbing accident on Dente Blanche in the Alps of Switzerland (I believe the mt. itself is in France, we were evacuated to switzerland) which left me with a flayed chest, not a fun injury to have. essentially you get one when your chest is impacted so hard that the lower part of your rib cage is totally detached from the upper part, punctured my lung, blah blah. Now I'm a 24 year old with interesting stories and great scars to back them up. Still do some light duty stuff with friends, though.
__________________
Grant In the stable: 1938 Buick Special model 41, 1963 Solex 2200, 1973 Vespa Primavera 125, 1974 Vespa Rally 200, 1986 VW Vanagon Syncro Westfalia, 1989 VW Doka Tristar, 1995 Toyota Land Cruiser, 2011 Pursuit 315 OS, 2022 Tesla Y Gone but not forgotten: 1973 VW Beetle, 1989 Porsche 944, 2008 R56 Mini Cooper S |
||
|
05-15-2004, 08:19 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
i can only do the indoor stuff, but my "throwing finger" on my right hand is jacked. my doc thinks i messed up ligaments or something. but in between aches i get to the rock gym.
but forget about that, i want to see and hear more about the stripper. that i dont get to do.
__________________
poof! gone |
||
|
05-15-2004, 10:56 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Peoples Republic of Long Beach, NY
Posts: 21,140
|
Quote:
Campfires were routine till at least 2am. Picture a metro NYC solo guy hanging out with between 10 and 20 international young rock climbing guys. and everybody eating a lot of rice and beans because this mostly college group is broke. It was great.
__________________
Ronin LB '77 911s 2.7 PMO E 8.5 SSI Monty MSD JPI w x6 |
||
|
05-15-2004, 01:22 PM
|
|
|
|
Seldom Seen Member
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: California
Posts: 3,584
|
A little slow? Wait until you lead a climb, 20' above your last protection, arms pumped, legs jackhammering. Believe me, the fall will not be a little slow. . .
Tshabet, you probably got out just in time. There aren't too many old alpine climbers.
__________________
Why do things that happen to white trash always happen to me? Got nachos? |
||
|
05-15-2004, 04:40 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: So. Cal.
Posts: 9,141
|
Richard:
Is this your new way of meeting women? I enjoyed climbing a bit thirty some years ago. But mostly did it (and was trained for) for rescues. At that time, I worked for the Park Service as a Ranger, so most of my time climbing was spent getting other people out of situations they had gotten themselves into.
__________________
Marv Evans '69 911E |
||
|
05-15-2004, 10:44 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Illinois
Posts: 356
|
Had fun in Sequoia/Kings Canyon 20+ years ago.
Last year saw some climbers on El Capitan in Yosemite and felt a little wistful that I didn't keep going with it. But I'm old enough that grabbing the cables on the back side of Half Dome is more my speed now. Do it while you're young!
__________________
RKC 1987 Guards Red Targa |
||
|
05-17-2004, 09:27 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
Your a geek!!!!
__________________
Reverend Ray 84 Carrera Coupe "DAS-V2" GruppeB #2119 Volvo V70SE-Wife mobile Nissan Frontier-Home Depot mobile |
||
|
05-21-2004, 03:39 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
How many dates have you had with that stripper now? Are you still workin on 1st base?????HAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA
__________________
Reverend Ray 84 Carrera Coupe "DAS-V2" GruppeB #2119 Volvo V70SE-Wife mobile Nissan Frontier-Home Depot mobile |
||
|
05-21-2004, 03:41 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Mid-life crisis, could be anywhere
Posts: 10,382
|
Brother, first base came and went within 30 minutes
__________________
'95 993 C4 Cabriolet Bunch of motorcycles |
||
|
05-21-2004, 06:58 AM
|
|
|
|
Seldom Seen Member
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: California
Posts: 3,584
|
"Had fun in Sequoia/Kings Canyon 20+ years ago.
Last year saw some climbers on El Capitan in Yosemite and felt a little wistful that I didn't keep going with it. But I'm old enough that grabbing the cables on the back side of Half Dome is more my speed now. Do it while you're young!" Trail crew putting up cables on East side of Half Dome a couple of days ago. 
|
||
|
05-21-2004, 08:47 AM
|
|
1981 Porsche 911SC Targa 3.6
