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zBrown
Ice climber
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Nov 17, 2018 - 08:32pm PT
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Surfing, when I got started, was just for the fun of it. It's come a long way baby. As has climbing.
Nice thread idea Doc.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Nov 18, 2018 - 10:51am PT
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"Just fun" is my main goal for climbing outside, and has been for years.
I tend to train much harder stuff in the gym than I am even interested in doing outside, because I find that when I take it down a notch outside, having a reserve level of fitness and strength makes stuff feel really fun.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 18, 2018 - 11:37am PT
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All smiles for miles -
`87-? -no- "you did't fly for me, have real fun; try anything hard with me, till late in `92 or `93"
there seems to be real debate?
The person what took the snap says 6 yrs latter at least
When were those purple 'Sportiva shoes the rage ? 92-3?
the Off "Laughing Man" flying upside down in a 20 year old Forrest tie-on swami & leg loop rig.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Nov 18, 2018 - 01:24pm PT
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Its still fun after 41 years.
The only thing that has changed is the definition of fun.
Fun involves more comfort than it used to.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Nov 18, 2018 - 05:19pm PT
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It's always been fun for me....missed out on the hard core early on.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Nov 19, 2018 - 06:41am PT
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"I wish I could take you back to that time when it was just fun."
Perhaps Joe is simply reflecting on all the good times in his youth with his great friend. I know for myself I too wish I could go back to those care free days of my youth, laughing in the sun playing pirates on rock with my buddies. Sure grades, tick lists and competition were ultimately superimposed on it all but for me what was so fun and still is are the people. I'm sure many of you would agree that climbers are some of the most halarious and fun people to be around.
Berg Heil to you all,
Charlie D.
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Mike Honcho
Trad climber
Glenwood Springs, CO
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Nov 19, 2018 - 09:21am PT
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It was fun as hell, wouldn't change a thing!
Caylor!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Nov 19, 2018 - 10:44am PT
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It’s always fun...but “fun” can mean so many different things to people.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 19, 2018 - 11:04am PT
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Micronut and Macronut, still fun after all these years.
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Mike Friedrichs
Sport climber
City of Salt
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Nov 19, 2018 - 01:37pm PT
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Hi Ed,
This is something I think about frequently as well now that I'm staring in the face of impending old age. How will I have fun when my skills/strength experience the inevitable decline? What attributes are necessary for "fun" and what aren't?
They say "comparison is the thief of joy." I've always been competitive with myself and I don't see that changing. In a way, that contributes to my fun. But it is most certainly not fun when I get down on myself. It's not fun comparing with others, or what I used to be able to do either. I've never been one to scream and yell when I fall off my project either. I just have quiet resolve to learn, get stronger, and try again.
But will I have "fun" when the grade I am doing (onsight or projecting) is lower? I've always told myself that I would but it's easy to say from the outside; more difficult when you're there. With two broken fingers, my crack climbing ability is definitely diminished. Still working about the same level of sport, or in the gym.
A couple of years ago, Anne and I did a four-pitch 5.11 crack in Zion that neither of us had ever done called Smashmouth. Great route by the way. We alternated leads and both freed every pitch. On the way back to the car, I had mentioned to Anne that I had been wondering if my days of onsighting 5.11 cracks were coming to an end. She said, "maybe so, but not this day." We most certainly had fun.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 19, 2018 - 05:47pm PT
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Emergent Stonemaster Chapman on the right.
Check out the footwear.
Photo posted on neebee's FB page. Thanks!
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Nov 19, 2018 - 05:55pm PT
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I like fun. But there were times when I thought I was going to die but didn't and afterwards they were fun. Ah, memory.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Nov 19, 2018 - 07:33pm PT
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For me it was never just fun. It was fun, but it was other things too. Coming from bicycle racing, a very competitive activity, into climbing meant I carried a lot of that approach with me.
My first partner, a mentor, was a cyclist as well. We competed in formal events in Central Park (NYC) and did long distance rides too. So he brought that competitive instinct to the table as well. But within that framework we had top notch fun.
I climbed at the Gunks and Adirondacks for about ten more years with various partners, mostly better than I. I'll say that I avoided those Vulgarian freaks like the plague :-) But when I got to L.A. and started bouldering regularly at Stoney point I found a whole new intensity of competition, and again it was great fun so long as I won every so often.
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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Nov 20, 2018 - 09:00am PT
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I don't see how climbing for us ordinary garden-variety climbers can be anything more, nor less, than pure fun at the end of the day.( Unless something goes wrong)
For those who excel, are supremely talented, and rise above the ordinary, and inhabit those crucial territories in history-- well, their bailiwick is made different.
"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required,"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 22, 2018 - 06:58pm PT
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I don't see how climbing for us ordinary garden-variety climbers can be anything more, nor less, than pure fun at the end of the day.
([Click to View YouTube Video]
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curt wohlgemuth
Social climber
Bay Area, California
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Nov 22, 2018 - 08:37pm PT
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I have had plenty of climbing days that weren't fun. Climbing over my head, with crappy partners, or when I pushed myself to do something I just didn't want to do ("Fred did it, so I should be able to also").
The funnest days have always been the ones with good partners, at a grade that was sufficiently challenging for the time and place -- might be 5.11 might be 5.6.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 25, 2018 - 04:11pm PT
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hey there, say, ... mouse, you got a little 'oops'y there...
... that one brother, there, is matt... :)
though, mark did start with him, too??? i think... or,
with JACK menendez... (which i think, jack said, was really him,
that started going places with mark) ... :)
matt though, is a great carpenter and well known by many
of the climbing guys, :)
:)
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Nov 25, 2018 - 04:57pm PT
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It was always about fun for me. Except for the terrifying parts.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 25, 2018 - 05:49pm PT
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Dood, look on the bright side - at least it wasn’t yer mom dragging you up.
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 25, 2018 - 06:09pm PT
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It ain't fun until it's st00pid .....
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