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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Apr 14, 2019 - 05:41pm PT
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WOW!
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, Bozeman, the ocean, or ?
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Apr 15, 2019 - 07:51am PT
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SLR. That sends shivers up my spine.
Susan
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Apr 15, 2019 - 08:04am PT
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My regret is that I spent too much time climbing, and not enough time doing other things like exploring the world; and now I am too injured to do either.
Relationships suffered because of my "passion".
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 15, 2019 - 09:09am PT
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I’ve two regrets: I didn’t do the Eiger or Cerro Torre.
But I have seen Sumi Jo sing the “Queen of the Night”, a pity it wasn’t while I was finishing the Eiger Exit Chimneys.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Apr 15, 2019 - 01:25pm PT
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I don't really have any regrets. Sure, some things could have worked out differently but in the end I am pretty satisfied with what I've done. I spent my youth surfing and water skiing and racing motorcycles in the dirt. Then I found climbing! I have made some great friends and had some awesome adventures climbing. I have climbed harder than I probably had any right to. I have been extremely lucky in who I ended up with as partners who were bold and skilled enough to do some fabulous stuff.
I could regret losing my 40s to health problems but when they got solved I was granted over a decade to make up for lost time where my strength, health and enthusiasm were just about unlimited and was able to enjoy another careers worth of hard climbing.
Now that I have sufficiently abused my upper body climbing hard thru my 50s and into my 60s I have found that my lower body actually still works really well and I am enjoying the desire to walk long distances into the hills!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 15, 2019 - 03:34pm PT
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I regret having climbed Carolyn's Rump. I'll never forgive my wife for making me climb that crap.
How many of you have sat at a belay more than halfway up El Cap, staring down at the meadow with the lush river going through it...
Ha! I remember coming down from the north face of Norman Clyde totally parched listening to all that cold water running under the talus. Torture.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Apr 15, 2019 - 06:46pm PT
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How many of you have sat at a belay more than halfway up El Cap, staring down at the meadow with the lush river going through it... Oh, God. That sparkling cold water. Pure torture.
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