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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Oct 26, 2016 - 06:09pm PT
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skitch, don't feel like you have to climb if it doesn't bring you joy. That's a recipe for madness.
Being close to the ORG, means you have mammoth and table lands for mtn biking. Have you already played all those lines out?
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Chugach
Trad climber
Vermont
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Oct 26, 2016 - 06:18pm PT
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Does a climbing sabbatical count? I like long trad routes but I travel for work and have teenagers. I'm simply not willing to take a day away from the family to go climbing. The kids are growing up too fast, etc. That's fine, we ski and mtb together, do a lot of their sports but we climb rarely.
And secretly, I like my work sometimes as wildly as I ever liked climbing and I need to fund three kids through college. My empty-nester dream is to get work in Italy and spend my silver haired years climbing via ferratas and drinking wine with my wife. We'll see.
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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Oct 26, 2016 - 07:03pm PT
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I have to quit till the weekend.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 26, 2016 - 07:21pm PT
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Think Charlie Porter regretted retiring to take up sailing in Patagonia?
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Oct 26, 2016 - 09:11pm PT
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DMT was correct on the Slippery Ford comment...cracked me up when he was in the not climbing list for Slippery Ford. He needs new tires on that Ford.
Slippery Ford Bear
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Oct 26, 2016 - 09:13pm PT
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Quitting climbing was the best thing I ever did for my climbing.
Burnt out, I left every last bit of gear back in AZ and moved to the beach. Surfed every day.
Touched rock maybe once a year for 10 years.
Coming back to climbing I found myself a better climber, maybe not stronger, but better.
Now I love rediscovering routes, climbing ones that were "below me", and even climbing as hard as I did in my 20's.
Mindset and motivational changes and realizing I'm a lifer.
I'd like to think that I'll never quit again. Ever.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Oct 27, 2016 - 11:00am PT
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Good luck with that
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Oct 27, 2016 - 11:51am PT
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Does a climbing sabbatical count? I like long trad routes but I travel for work and have teenagers. I'm simply not willing to take a day away from the family to go climbing. The kids are growing up too fast, etc. That's fine, we ski and mtb together, do a lot of their sports but we climb rarely.
I had to slow down when my daughters were little, too. Now, they and my son-in-law are prime climbing partners. The time I spent with them in the mountains, even if it was only walking up the Mist Trail with a four-year-old or helping one of them climb a five-foot low-angle boulder, has paid dividends multiple times over.
While the beginnings of arthritis are my "messenger from Satan," making me suspect that, like jogill, I'll need to stop climbing before I die, I'm still hoping that's still a ways in my future. Once I stopped making such a big deal out of climbing, it became nothing but pure enjoyment.
John
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snagglepuss
Mountain climber
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Oct 27, 2016 - 12:03pm PT
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"I met climbers in Patagonia who spent two months in a tent at the bottom of some route they never got to climb ."
Don't let Locker see this. He'll tell you it's a stupid reason to quit climbing. Especially if it isn't weather that stops you from climbing the route but a demotivated/scared partner.
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