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rich sims
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2008 - 12:24am PT
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Ron
The way George climbs I forgot he is old enough to be in the 60 plus club .
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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I'm old as dirt but I thought I'd be someone someday...Day came...and,went...Still nobody.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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I was in Garden of the Gods for couple of hours (not climbing) a few year back and there were a couple of guys I spoke with who were in their early sixties and appeared to still be kicking it pretty damn hard. Unfortunately I'm going senile at 55 and can't remember their names. I was impressed at the time, however.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
In the mountains... somewhere...
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Herb Laeger is still climbing a lot, if not quite as hard as he used to.
I'm coming up on 57 and still climb pretty hard.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho
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Bogus to Boise, indeed. Gravity riders! 1.5 uphill is all...
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David Lewis
Trad climber
Northern New Jersey
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I don't believe anyone has mentioned George Hurley from New England who was involved in more than a few first desert ascents. At 70+ years old he regularly leads trad in the high 10s.
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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See George all the time.He had just finished a 10a FA one day this summer,then seen him guiding ice several times this season.I think he's 73 or 4.
Mr.Barber still pulls down well too.One inch swami,no springs in summer or leashes in winter.
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Well let's see.......
Lee Sheftel is 54 and pullin' down at 5.14
George Lowe is 60 and can still kick butt (he's just too nice to do it to your face.....).
Bob D'Antonio is ancient and still climbing hard
No one is as old as Fred Becky nor will they ever be.......
There are plenty of old Euro guys in their 60s who lead 5.13
Ggeorge Hurley is in his early-mid sixties and leads hard ice and 5.11 rock AND guides.......
Jay Smith still climbs hard, he just complains more.......
DAMN! no excuses anymore!
jack
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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I'll add two names.
Jorge Urioste and Bob Culp.
Both over seventy and still cranking.
Jorge has recently rekindled a passion for ice climbing.
And Bob can cruise down hill faster than an avalanche.
Both of these amazing men are role models for me.
And I sincerely thank them both for there inspiration to me.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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I have a friend who's 69 and still leads, sometimes 10s. He's a nobody, though, only been climbing for 50 years.
Another friend is 82 and still backpacks in the Sierras. He's my hero.
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10b4me
climber
hanging by a thread
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Stimson Bullitt
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Jerry Anderson
I'll never keep up with him...
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elcap-pics
climber
Crestline CA
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Yo.. do it while you can lads.... arthritis has my hands under its spell now and although the spirit and body are willing, climbing is pretty hard with this affliction... but I am still "hitting" other things!
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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way more in europe. a couple years ago i was at fontainebleau and ended up doing a long circuit with four guys who were regular partners. they met every wednesday and most sundays. the youngest one was 64. the oldest one, herve, had been in a pow camp in ww2, so i'm guessing he was in his late seventies. they all cranked--and i saw STACKS of men and women in their '60s and '70s pulling down all the time there.
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jack Roberts is still trying to be like Bob D'Antonio use to be...not a easy act to follow especially at his age.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Keizo Miura, until he passed away a couple years ago at 101, was pretty hard core. He apparently skied 120-140 days/year until he was 99. Celebrated his 99th birthday by skiing Vallee Blanche in Chamonix and commented he was concerned about some of his friends coming along on the ski, since they were "in their 80's and not in as good shape" as he was.
His son, Yuichiro Miura was the guy who skied Everest with parachute in the 1970s and summited Everest when he was 70 a few years ago.
Old, but Not Retiring - Japan's Astoundingly Healthy Seniors Climb Peaks, Cross Deserts, Sail Seas:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A555-2004Oct26.html
Keizo Miura 100th Birthday & 4 Generations Skiing Expedition Successful - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (photos of Keizo Miura and friends skiing)
http://www.everestnews.com/stories004sec4002/ski03012004.htm
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Ouch!
climber
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I went to an old school. Maybe not so old but it was kinda rundown.
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DHike
climber
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John Hoffman, 60's ish, sends .12+/.13's at owens. I guess that's 'still hitting it'.
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adventurous one
Trad climber
reno nev.
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John Hoffman- mid sixties- definately belongs near the top of this list. Saw him a couple of years ago and, except for a little more grey hair, looked the same as he did 25 years ago, very fit. He was still floating up 5.12s like he was walking up a 5.6. Never once have I ever seen the guy struggle on anything. I would not count him out doing 5.12 at 80.
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland: what's not to love?
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I met Jimmy Dunn five years ago in Cheyenne Canyon, outside Colorado Springs. Everything we were bouldering looked like a cake walk to him, and he said he still got up into the cirques on Pikes' Peak with his lady to pull down stuff few other people bothered to climb.
Couldn't guess how old he was - one of those faces you can't tell.
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