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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Mar 10, 2013 - 06:18pm PT
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Rob Kelman is a well-known mathematician who was at CSU in Colorado when I was there over 40 years ago. We didn't meet at the time, but later talked a bit via e-mail. Here's a piece I posted on Rob a few years ago:
Rob Kelman
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stilltrying
Trad climber
washington indiana
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Mar 10, 2013 - 06:56pm PT
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Great overview of Mr. Kelman.
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Mar 10, 2013 - 08:49pm PT
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According to Mr Kelman in the 2007 interview;
I can still do chinups with, say, about 75 lb. on my back when I train for it in the winter.
That impressive. In keeping with other themes in this thread I did my buildering workout with my eyes closed for the first time today - inspired by this thread. I just did one pass on my 120' brick wall just to warm my calves up for running. Everything on the wall is symetrical and predictable so it's not a big deal but it was fun.
Keep on trying Stilltrying! I turn 61 in 2 months!
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Mar 10, 2013 - 10:17pm PT
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My Answer:
At 64, climb all year, on real rock, with a focused belayer. No surrogates--no plastic, no weights, no boulders or crossfit voodoo training . A good rope and protection beginning low. The reason: minimize joint repetition/loading so as to spend your joint life doing what you want (climbing), not training (elsewise) for what you hope to achieve.
Some of my projects do get completed:
see the winters work:
http://www.mountainproject.com/v/area-5-red-and-white-grotto-walls/107493721
What do I eat? Fish Oil
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mar 10, 2013 - 10:22pm PT
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By capsules or spoonsfull?
And cheers to Stilltrying!
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Mar 10, 2013 - 10:40pm PT
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Jaybro,
drink it; the emulsified.
A geology sediment deposition question/speculation for the geologist.
consult: http://www.mountainproject.com/v/108033452
Just before deposition of the red ortho quartzite the Madison limestone was a well developed Karst surface. Can you see how the red quatzite fills the gully in the limestone?
The red rock in front of the Madison is a very different quartzite than that above the Madison. Perhaps older than the Madison? Take note of how smooth it flows eastward. Is this from the present North Platte River meandering into it or was it smoothed from a long time ago?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mar 12, 2013 - 11:18am PT
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I'd say both. Asssuming superposition, the quartzite, (limestone at the time? ) filled in erosional gaps in the the karst, then 'present' day weathering gave it the look it has now.
Kind of a Mears kind of question....
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Mar 12, 2013 - 11:26am PT
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Dingus Mcgee and Jaybro......
You both have it sort of correct....
I was around, BITD, when that formation was forming. :>)
It was a volcanic mud flow that destroyed one of the best and only Limestone climbing spots in Nebraska.
The access fund worked very hard to try and stem the flow but in the end they failed to do so.
But now that plate tectonics have relocated it to Wyoming, hopefully it will become a fine climbing place.
..... have a nice day.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mar 12, 2013 - 11:29am PT
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's good to be able to go the source, for eye witness accounts of this sort of stuff!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 22, 2016 - 03:25pm PT
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Doesn't it depend on the 60 yr old?
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Sep 22, 2016 - 04:34pm PT
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I'm 64 now and still leading relatively decent on trad .10s even if on body memory and only so long as I don't have to be on any one hold longer than about a second or two. It would help if I could get out more than once every month or six weeks.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Sep 22, 2016 - 05:10pm PT
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I'm 70, and heading for Yosemite in the morning.
I will be happy if I can even get up the climbs I did 5 years ago, with the older Donini.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Sep 22, 2016 - 05:25pm PT
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We're like twin brothers from different mothers, Tad and I. I turn 60 in Dec. too. I haven't been climbing nearly as long as most of you, but I feel my biggest deal is I have to believe my body can do what I'm asking of it. And for me that comes with practice; 3 times a week min is best. But I can't always pull that off. Striking the balance between family and being outdoors as well as convincing my wife I will be safe climbing with others can be tough. Lucky for me, she enjoys climbing too.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Sep 22, 2016 - 05:43pm PT
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As I understand it, we 60-year-olds represent the height of the baby boom with respect to number of births in the U.S. in a year. For that matter, there were more births in the U.S. that year that at any other time in history.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Sep 22, 2016 - 05:53pm PT
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Strangely enough, climbing has been my salvation. I plan to keep it up as long as I can.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Sep 22, 2016 - 05:57pm PT
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Both Medicare eligible
Susan
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Urmas
Social climber
Sierra Eastside
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Sep 22, 2016 - 05:59pm PT
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I always keep it up as long as I can!!
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Sep 22, 2016 - 10:22pm PT
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This thread has gone on long enough that I'm about to hit a different 60-year anniversary: this coming July (assuming I make it that far), I will have been climbing for 60 years.
Further assuming that what remains of the body (suitably buttressed by hiking poles, knee braces, and ibuprofen) is willing to cooperate, I might have a bit of a climbing celebration in the Tetons, where it all began for me in 1957.
One thing I won't be replicating is SteveA's septuagenarian 10 hour car-to-car Exum frolic. No way my knees would put up with that gambit, but a much more leisurely ascent of a harder route might be possible...
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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Sep 23, 2016 - 06:54am PT
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I'm glad someone resurrected this thread because I now qualify to post. I turned 60 in January and still managed to do two 5.12 routes in the last year--along with a ton of easier stuff. I know that's no huge feat for someone at age 60, but I feel pretty good about that because I never climbed much harder than 5.12 at any age. Onward and upward :-)
Curt
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whoops
climber
paradise, ca
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Sep 23, 2016 - 07:05pm PT
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I'm 67, and my buddy John is 72. We are going up to the Emeralds tomorrow to bolt a new climb, should go in the mid 5.11 range. I'm going to enjoy the rock, the work, my friends, the dogs and the other climbers that might be there. People can go to the mall if they want. The mountains are my place and the people in them are my tribe. How many people in the world really get to do what they love? Better yet, how many people in the world really have a passion? I'd b willing to bet it's a damn small number.
"I like people who are learning, listening, engaging, doing new things. Having fun. Look at Vin Scully - he's what, 139? But he has a blast at the ballpark like a 10-year-old. I like hanging out with young people - whatever age they may claim."
Good stuff there!
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