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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 23, 2017 - 07:01am PT
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how much longer i will have fun?
I'm 58, so 60 is just around the corner.
I will never climb bold routes again.
I get scared.
Can't get hurt.
I will never climb hard stuff again, and i'm ok with that.
There are plenty of moderate well protected routes that I would still like to do.
My Dad is 91, and he still plays golf a couple times of week, does volunteer work, and appears to still be having fun.
Anyone here old like me, and still having fun?
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two-shoes
Trad climber
Auberry, CA
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Sep 23, 2017 - 07:14am PT
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You have become old because you have decided you are old.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Sep 23, 2017 - 07:20am PT
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I checked the calendar and you've got about 4.5 years. Plan accordingly.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sep 23, 2017 - 07:33am PT
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Middle of the night worries are usually cured by morning coffee. Aging is an inevitable life process should you be lucky enough to live to experience it. The physical aspects of aging are obvious, the mental part less so....attitude is a huge factor.
If you except limitations brought about by aging you can expect to experience many more years of fun in regards to climbing.
I am sixteen years older than you and in the next year I plan to....climb around the States in my favorite venues like the Black Canyon, Indian Creek, City of Rocks, Cochise Stronghold etc. i also plan to explore some remote mountains in Patagonia this winter. Next summer ( when I will be 75) I will be leading a trek in the Karakoram and will be alpine rock climbing in the Latok/Ogre cirque.
Accept where you are physically and then determine what you WANT to do and go out and DO it. Forget about the numbers attached to the climbs....enjoy the movement and exhilaration of something that has been a part of you for a long time.
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 23, 2017 - 07:41am PT
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^^^^^^
You da man!
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WBraun
climber
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Sep 23, 2017 - 08:07am PT
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Stop waking up in the middle of the night and you'll have fun again .....
Just remember, Donini is NOT human.
Ed Hartouni made him in the Lawrence Livermore Lab as an experimental research A1 thing.
Jim escaped and Ed was happy ......
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Sep 23, 2017 - 08:17am PT
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I'll second what JD said; even thou I can't emulate what he does. My desire is still there; even thou I stopped running it out years ago. Too many injuries.
Hopefully after a little back surgery to cure a numb, weak leg, I'll be back to climbing next Summer.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Sep 23, 2017 - 08:39am PT
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Zip...Start worrying when you don't wake up...
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Sep 23, 2017 - 08:41am PT
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The reports are true then.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 23, 2017 - 08:56am PT
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This belongs on the First World Problems thread.
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Lennox
climber
just southwest of the center of the universe
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Sep 23, 2017 - 09:29am PT
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"bragspray"-----53 here and soloing harder than in my 20s and 30s--but no longer doing stupid on-site solos
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Sep 23, 2017 - 10:00am PT
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Just turned 57 and I am climbing as good as I ever did. I credit a bouldering gym near my house. Not doing the R/X rated leads I did as a 20 something and it is harder to avoid minor injuries and takes longer to heal up. Still having fun, Donini is my hero, I hope he is not taking PEDs.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Sep 23, 2017 - 11:45am PT
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who you calling old?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 23, 2017 - 12:08pm PT
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hey there say, zip... think about some things that you really do want to do, climbing or not, and just work each day, towards what you need to do them...
meaning:
getting stronger?
planning how, etc...
getting new equipment-- maybe you'd enjoy painting?
... or writing, ??
or, being a gardner?
you never know... JUST IN CASE you feel that you are
too injured to really climb, or too many injuries might
cause you to fall... well, you are FULL OF all kinds of skills,
just:
search yourself, and bring them forward...
you can DO it!!
whatever you set your desire to, :)
with-- a bit of support and ideas from your climber buddies!
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Sep 23, 2017 - 12:39pm PT
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I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID
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Sep 23, 2017 - 02:08pm PT
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Doomed you are. Get used to it. That's the normal order of things.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Sep 23, 2017 - 04:07pm PT
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You've got to be kidding. 58? That puts you in the youth-of-old-age category. After 75 things get a bit dicier. (all except JD)
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 23, 2017 - 05:33pm PT
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^^^^
Well,,thanks then.
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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Sep 23, 2017 - 08:07pm PT
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If you're easy to please then you're pleased more often. Having fun before 58 is maybe a pretty good predictor of having fun after 58.
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Sep 23, 2017 - 08:58pm PT
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Zip,
Try to be "yogi" about it all - whatever your body has to give on any particular day is just fine. The fact that you're still climbing now in your late 50's is fabulous in and of itself!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Sep 23, 2017 - 10:58pm PT
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Jim is a phenomenon in his own right, I had nothing to do with it!
But I am happy that Jim's out there
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L
climber
Tiptoeing through the chilly waters of life
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Sep 25, 2017 - 04:50pm PT
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From what I hear, as long as you're not waking up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom for the 23rd time, you're not "old" yet.
And I really resonated with Ed's comment: But I am happy that Jim's out there
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 26, 2017 - 06:52am PT
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Just keep at it.
I'm 61 and did my 61st ascent of ancient art yesterday. And that's my day job, which Helps keep me in shape for my real climbing...
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Sep 26, 2017 - 07:36am PT
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You'll probably still be wondering the same thing at 75, 80, etc.
I used to think "life" ended at 40, then 45, maybe 55, oh 60 had to surely be the capstone.
I've given up fixating on a terminus of "life". Do what I can, and keep Ibu nearby and my orthopedist and hair colorist on speed dial.
Susan
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Sep 26, 2017 - 09:15am PT
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Man, at 57, I struggle just to maintain a walking program. Real climbing of any kind is, in any functional sense, out of the question. But I still keep the soft machine alive, through a keen diet, daily (4-5 days p. wk.) light strengthening and stretching: all for its own sake and just in case the green light ever comes on again, then I'll be ready.
Had a lucid dream last night that I was doing some hard bouldering, and no doubt, that daily routine keeps the neurons and engrams firing so that I can still apply the power and work out the sequences, if only while asleep!
Point being, just keep routing around in your toy chest for the ones that still amuse you, and stay out at the edge of the envelope with whatever your body allows. At a certain point, the reward is in the maintenance and the struggle.
Even Reinhold Messner at one point said something like, when he was working out his traverse of Antarctica and the Gobi Desert, pure walking is where it's at!
Never give up. Stay frosty. Work it out!
Otherwise, you got zip!
Yours,
TarBusted
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 26, 2017 - 09:26am PT
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pure walking is where it's at!
I try to embrace that ideal when The Wife exorts me to exert but all I can think of is Bataan, not that I was there, mind you. To wit, for many years walking was purely the means of achieving alpine excess. It's hard to teach an olde dog.
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