Rock Climbing

[ScottThornley]

Scott, where are you at? S. sempervirens in the sierra foothills??

jp

Yep, I live in the foothills, but my mom is down on the SF peninsula. I'm down there about 3-4 days a month for work and to see that everything is going smoothly for her.

Scott

 

[wiley_p]

I stopped rock climbing around 97' funny the other day I went to eyeball this beauty again would sure like to call rock climbing done after bagging this classic.

 

[sotc]

wheres that? very impressive

 

[wiley_p]

Liberty Bell and Early Winter Spires, North Cascades in the Okanogan.

 

[darkstar]

Liberty bell way up on my hitlist.
As some of you know i quit rockclimbing for 10 months, this break came after a life time of climbing about 4 days a week.I was just tired of it. Still it was one of the worst mistakes i made in my life.
I gained 30 pounds lifting weights all the time duh.
I somehow thought it would replace the climbing addict in me.
So now i finished my fith day back climbing again. It sux because im so incredibly out of shape , high stepping makes my legs sore for two days and i am out of breath climbing a fifty foot 11+.
Oh well i might take breaks again but I pray never ten months.
Its like starting over.

 

[SeanKroll]

Who's actively climbing?

 

[Dave Shepard]

I'm not in shape to climb anything without a handrail, but I've been watching some YouTubers. Magnus Midtbo is the one I watch the most, amazing strength.

 

[flushcut]

Nope, not I.

 

[canadianclimber]

Use to climb a ton. Still regularly hit up some simple ridge climbs in the 5-5.6 range. I like them I can move quickly and cover some ground. Usually it's only a few hard moves between scrambles.

Started getting back to the climbing gym a bit this winter. I'd like to get back to climbing a bit harder.

 

[cory]

I am very fortunate to have an excellent rock gym 2 miles from me. It has an excellent regular gym with pretty much every machine, device, and weight you need, and excellent top rope and lead routes and excellent bouldering.

I learned leading basics there in the gym but I greatly prefer top roping. 5.9 is my usual limit and tho that is nothing to write home about, I'm completely fine with it as I'm climbing for the fun and exercise of it.

I love the balance involved in climbing- not balancing like on a tightrope but balancing in terms of body position involved in holding yourself to the wall and advancing.

Lately I've gotten a bit more into bouldering because it is a bit more minimalistic and simple- no rope or harness needed, just shoes.

Climbing rocks.
Now that I'm retired I'm looking forward to more rock climbing both indoors and out, as well as more tree climbing.

 

[pigwot]

Climbed mostly in the 1970s, New River Gorge and Seneca Rocks in W VA, the Gunks in NY, etcetera out here.
Most of the time went climbing with two friends... one who lived out West, where we left all our gear one year.
He was the friend with Bi-Polar issues and thinking the world was soon t end, he sold 'all' of our climbing gear in a manic phase way back then!!
The other two of us really never went back to it after that.

Two of our daughters and our son climb though the older daughter and son slowed down a lot once they had children.
The younger one who is an ASL interpreter still climbs on a regular basis, and has rock climbed with deaf climbers in NH and ice climbed in NY to interpret for another group of deaf climbers.

With my progressing osteoarthritis my climbing days are over, other than trees...

 

[cory]

Good post Pat but sorry to hear of your OA. Where is it striking you.

 

[pigwot]

OA pain, in decreasing order: hands, left ankle, neck, shoulders, left hip…

 

[Burnham]

My hands are the worst of it, too. Shoulders, wrists, come next. Hips, sometimes.

Hand strength is also an issue, even without considering the pain.

None of which make life as an active person as fun as it used to be, from time to time.

 

[Burnham]

Ah well, Pat...we all end up with aches and pains of some flavor if we work and live long enough. Not really sad, in that I'm still getting things done, just with some differences from years ago. Pretty much like you .

 

[cory]

OA pain, in decreasing order: hands, left ankle, neck, shoulders, left hip…

Are any of those sites of former injuries?