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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Nov 14, 2012 - 03:39pm PT
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I think Steve freed it at 50ish, and one or more Huber has done so in their 40's, I think (guessing on age). Heinz was probably in his 40's when he did Freerider, and Platinum Rob would have been around 40 on the Pre-Muir.
Mark, maybe I'll get you for Secret Santa. It's still sitting out waiting for me to go to the post office and remember it at the same time.
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Norte_Caroliña_Climber
Gym climber
BigWall Baller From the Holler
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Nov 14, 2012 - 03:39pm PT
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Well JLP,
Has Englekirk freed an EC route? He'd be a candidate for oldest to free it. Probably gotta be StevePoopi at this point, but wasn't that on the one with the A0 rappell point (El Nino maybe?) not all free if you're a hard liner on them things.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2012 - 03:44pm PT
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Well, Max and I are going to be celebrating the 40th anniversary of our first climb together, The Nose, in 2016. He'll be 58 and I'll be 60.
Route TBA.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2012 - 03:45pm PT
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I think Shipoopi does have the oldest free ascent.
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Bad Climber
climber
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Nov 14, 2012 - 03:48pm PT
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Wow, Mark, that is soooo cool. You guys have always been my heroes. Get after it!
BAd
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2012 - 03:57pm PT
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Well, it ain't 2016 yet, but there is always dreaming…
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Nov 14, 2012 - 04:03pm PT
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Shipoopi does have the oldest free ascent
How old was he?
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2012 - 04:07pm PT
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I think he's 54 now and I know it wasn't in the last four years.
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Gagner
climber
Boulder
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Nov 14, 2012 - 04:07pm PT
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Steve is 52
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 14, 2012 - 05:23pm PT
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Mark, maybe you should train up Paul, and do a route with him. There must be 30+ years between you, maybe enough for a record.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2012 - 05:31pm PT
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Paul, my nephew? No, he's 32, much older than Cheyne.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 14, 2012 - 05:32pm PT
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OK then, how about your daughter?
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 14, 2012 - 05:39pm PT
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None of this age stuff or spreads make any sense at all pertaining to climbing competence.
Yet it's used all the time.
Seems totally weird to me.
It's what you know and can do in the present moment that counts ......
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2012 - 05:41pm PT
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Werner, yes, it's relevance to competence is non-existant, but it's more fun to talk about this than politics!
MH, she keeps saying she wants to climb the Nose with me. She's 15 now. It would be wild to do it with her.
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Andrew Barnes
Ice climber
Albany, NY
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Nov 14, 2012 - 05:50pm PT
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What about Fred Beckey? Did he do any climbing on El Cap? He certainly climbed a lot in the Sierra Nevada.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Nov 14, 2012 - 07:54pm PT
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Clint's page suggests Shipoopi did Freerider in 2005. So, about 45 yrs old is the oldest free ascent?
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Nov 14, 2012 - 07:58pm PT
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Probably not a record, but who was it that climbed El Cap with his son when he was in his sixties?
I wanna say Tom Higgins, but I may be wrong. I think I read about it in a magazine, but I may be wrong .
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Nov 14, 2012 - 09:38pm PT
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^Good call. Ryan and Tom Frost on the Salathe.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 14, 2012 - 10:14pm PT
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Sorry if I missed this up-thread, but I wonder about the youngest combined age? But they had to have swung leads. For starters, I'm putting out Luke and Werner back in '70 or '71?.
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