Would you repeat a year of your life over again if you could

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mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Oct 26, 2016 - 12:45am PT

Trump's latest book title is rumored to be Thus Spoke The Donald.

I'm predicting it will fall to the wayside when The Shrub's new offering is put up for sale, called Neo-Bushisms.

Nobody wants to re-experience those eight..............long..........years.

But I sense thread drift.

nah000

climber

no/w/here

Oct 26, 2016 - 12:52am PT

+1 Charlie D.

Bad Climber

Trad climber

The Lawless Border Regions

Oct 26, 2016 - 06:13am PT

Yeah, prolly '89. I was out of grad school and my girlfriend (eventual wife) and I had the best road trip ever, living out of a VW van, climbing most of the big volcanoes in Washington, some big peaks in the Canadian Rockies, killer rock routes all over. For three and a half months, we were free and killing it. Our last major route that year was S. Face of Charlotte Dome in early Sept. Not a soul out there. A dream.

I've been lucky to have many, many great years. I've lived a blessed life, fo' sho'. But that one stands out.

BAd

skitch

Gym climber

Bend Or

Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2016 - 09:31am PT

If just for the solace a person used to be able to find out in the woods! I started climbing in 2000 and even then it was much more common to go to a crag and be the only group there. I don't mind crowds as much as other people, but crags are becoming much more trampled, dusty wastelands than they used to. I mostly blame it on the dogs, which I like, but you're an acehole if you don't admit that they do a measurable amount of unnecessary damage to our crags.

Marlow

Sport climber

OSLO

Oct 26, 2016 - 09:54am PT

Amor fati...

paul roehl

Boulder climber

california

Oct 26, 2016 - 10:05am PT

Yeah, 1974...I was 26, had a VW camper, money, gear and the best time of my life. Stony, Idyllwild, Tuolumne, the Valley, Tetons... what an amazing year.

couchmaster

climber

Oct 26, 2016 - 11:48am PT

I know a guy who feels that the high point of his life was grade school. He has a facebook page devoted to reliving those fine memories. The teachers, the programs, the old pictures of local stores, etc etc. I, on the other hand, if forced to go back to relive a year of that bullsh#t, would commit suicide immediately and would not even subject myself to a single day of it.

It's strange, this world.

Bruce Morris

Trad climber

Belmont, California

Oct 26, 2016 - 12:07pm PT

Kinda stretching the category, but the whole period from 1982-84. Unemployed. Severance package from my previous employer. Rich GF. Money in the bank. Riding my bike and running passes everyday. Doing pull-ups with a 100 lb weight. Real productive in the FA department. On a roll! Then, I had to go back to the Bay and get a real job. End of the miracle years! Things are never perfect forever, not in this world.

skitch

Gym climber

Bend Or

Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2016 - 09:18pm PT

Have any of you watched the 3rd season of Black Mirror??? Goddamn.

ontheedgeandscaredtodeath

Social climber

SLO, Ca

Oct 26, 2016 - 09:47pm PT

If I had to I'd repeat being 26ish. Had a great season smokejumping, sent Mescalito, went down the Colorado in the Grand Canyon on a science river trip with a biologist girl, climbed in Patagonia and filled in the blanks with FAs in the stronghold. Then I shitcanned it all and went to law school in San Francisco!

No regrets about life since but what a great year!