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Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:03am PT
The government should make some new laws against old people going out climbing;...it's just not safe for persons after a certain age. I need to get over it, and find a nice, safe new past time.........stamps, coins, movies, tennis, golf, bingo, shuffleboard, computor gaming, football on T V........something else besides the dirty and dangerous climbing game;...that's for kids, not grown adults with families.......I got a boo boo yesterday climbing......AND it wasn't my fault;.....

Trival move;...just cranked into it wrong.
There must have been dirt on my shoe.
The rock was hot and in the sun all day.
Too much coffee.
Not enough coffee.
I was thinking about Obama OR McCain as president, and I fell.
Mosquitos distracted me.
Must have stepped on the rope.
Overtrained.
My belayer pulled me off.
The sun was in my eyes.
Didn't have C4 rubber.
Didn't have lunch.
Flash pump.
Hangover.
Too much beer.
Not enough beer.
Rock was choss.
Hard to concentrait on anything less than 5.12.
I'm prefer limestone; granite is too slippery.
I suck.






Curt

Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
Sep 30, 2008 - 03:04am PT
Jesus Todd, you could use a shave.

Curt

Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:07am PT
Picture taken just before fall......

Dr. Rock

Ice climber
http://tinyurl.com/4oa5br
Sep 30, 2008 - 03:08am PT
You better get Locker or Dee Wane to stitch that thing up.

Lordy, thats a 5.12 at least, you deserved to get dropped.

I mean hurt.
Nohea

Trad climber
Aiea,Hi
Sep 30, 2008 - 03:12am PT
Narly dood,
Well I have done my best to keep you out of the high hills.
Someone must be responsible!
Aloha,
wil
Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:13am PT
Chossy J Tree climbs;...low angle dummy domes.


nick d

Trad climber
nm
Sep 30, 2008 - 03:13am PT
Come on Todd and face the truth!

You and I both know it all started with the Kennedy's. Oh, and I dont wanna short-change our current "Hitler Youth" Pope.

Admit it, you are lucky to be alive heathen!
Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:16am PT
Damn Kennedys;...smoking pot in the White House, sleeping with movie stars, and driving drunk off of bridges;...giving all our hard earned money to crackheads on welfare. THAT is what we get for putting an Irish Catholic in the White House...

Climbing is a dirty and dangerous sport too....


Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:20am PT
Climbing is a sport for the young;...not those in their sunset years. Brett Pinar, age 17, on route;......I led up behind him;....you saw the results..........( I need to get over it.....I'm toast.....)

Loomis

climber
(>_
Sep 30, 2008 - 03:23am PT
Todd, didn't you mean Dead Kennedy's?
Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:23am PT
I like to watch others climb, but really have no business myself on the rock;....I'm WAY too old. Here is Tim Pinar (another old guy) doing his thing....

Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:27am PT
Reesa Ashbacher following a long scary traverse;.....it's just not worth the risk;......for leader or follower. I should have stayed home cleaning house, changing diapers, and watching football on T V.....next time, I will know...I didn't even leave my house until 3:30.......and just LOOK at the trouble I got into.........what was I thinking?
Climbing is a dirty and dangerous sport.......did I mention those damn Kennedys?

Loomis

climber
(>_
Sep 30, 2008 - 03:36am PT
Todd, Czech your e-mail please.
Scott.
Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:40am PT
Crappy 1/4 inch bolts, grainy rock, ......no place for a 53 year old gentleman with 3 young children at home;...what was I thinking?.....

Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:44am PT
Climbing is for fools....everyone knows it, but just doesn't respond....get over yourselves....

Loomis

climber
(>_
Sep 30, 2008 - 03:51am PT
Lucky you, we got rained out of church dome today! (Hate you)

deuce4

climber
Hobart, Australia
Sep 30, 2008 - 03:55am PT
Todd, no wonder, you were up there taking pictures when you shoulda been focused on the climbing!

Gawd, I miss those josh rocks. You're a lucky man...

Thanks for the pics!!!
jbar

Mountain climber
Inside my head
Sep 30, 2008 - 03:58am PT
It was the white socks!

dirtineye

Trad climber
the south
Sep 30, 2008 - 04:05am PT
It's very unseemly to start a climbing thread in the political season.

Besides, you got that boo-boo because you were SPORT climbing.

Being a sport climber is ALMOST as bad as being a rethuglican, you know.


And climbing on nasty quartz monzonite, good god man, what were you thinking?????

Come to the south, an climb on the good stuff. Ask the muppet woman about LK and big green, you'd love those places. There ain't no slick water polished granite in the south, ROTFLMAO!!!

And our sand stone is NOT going to break, hell, the good areas for sand stone were under heat and pressure and have a better matrix to begin with than that stale bread you call sand stone out west.

I can show you climbs on sandstone that have water running over them most of the time, and you never have to worry about breaking a hold. No three day waiting period here!




PS I should dig up my list of climbing failure excuses for you. It is extensive, and many are applicable, and besides, it's a really funny list.
dogtown

climber
Where I once was,I think?
Sep 30, 2008 - 04:09am PT
Maybe you should move to the coast take up Surfing it’s a old guy sport.

Or maybe fly fishing?

Or maybe just take photos of others?
Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 04:12am PT
Dirt in eye.....I've climbed in the south;....you are correct;.....California sucks;.....good thing most people don't know just how good the climbing is in the south, or Yosemite, Joshua Tree, and Eldo would empty out, and everyone would head on down to the south east. I could even get up and move to N. Carolina, if I wasn't up to my eyeballs in debt, and my job didn't have me by the gymbag............

Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 04:15am PT
I showed my boo boo to my sons;...here was their reaction....(file that one tooth down;....looks like a razor, batboy......)




Why climb, when I can hang out with these 3 homeboys?
dirtineye

Trad climber
the south
Sep 30, 2008 - 04:37am PT
WEll Todd, I'll say I have not been to Yosemite, (probably never will for medical reasons) but I have been to Jtree and the Gunks, and I can safely say that those places SUCK compared to lots of rock in NC for granite and particularly the BSF for sandstone in Tennessee.

You really should come visit. There's LOADS of unclimbed three to 5 pitch mega-hard sand stone in the BSF. IF you chance upon a DCA (dixie craggers atlas) in the BSF section, Noffsinger is one of my best buddies, and Steg and I climbed a lot together right up til I got sick. I'll hook you up with those guys, LOL.

Bring the muppet along, she loves NC granite, but has not been to the BSF yet.


And yet I see your point about the rug rats. I have no rug rats, alas. OR maybe that's good-- for them, LOL. But I like rug rats, hell bring them too.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Sep 30, 2008 - 04:45am PT
hey there todd... say, great booboo story... great pics... great kids...

and say, dirtineye:
great notes on southern climbing-rocks... hope you are well as can be expected this early morning... thanks again for the note on the rocks down south, still wish you get a get a chance to see yosemite... god bless :)
dirtineye

Trad climber
the south
Sep 30, 2008 - 04:52am PT
Anything could happen Neebee.

Thanks for the nice thoughts.

Come try out our southern fried rock!



tooth

Mountain climber
B.C.
Sep 30, 2008 - 07:31am PT
Thanks for the pics Todd, and DON"T file that tooth down! Good job with keeping his teeth white! Here in Guam most of the kids I see that age have black stubs instead of shiny white fangs!
snowey

Trad climber
San Diego
Sep 30, 2008 - 09:14am PT
Nice pics!
That traverse isn't I Can't Believe its a Girdle in the wonderland, is it? If not, what is it, it looks great!
I did that with Josh Higgins last year and it was fantastic.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Sep 30, 2008 - 09:23am PT
Todd, what's a young lad like you doing pushing the age button?
Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 10:18am PT
Mr. Donini, sir;....humble apologies;.....It's just that....I mean...I feel like......I can't help but.........oh;...never mind...( Sir; you are an inspiration to all...).... The climbs are Lubricated Goat (5.10-) to Bish (5.8+), and are located across Barker Dam, on the left as you approach Room to Schroom.....There is no water in the dam now, and it took about 10 min. to approach these climbs from the Barker Dam parking lot......
WoodySt

Trad climber
Riverside
Sep 30, 2008 - 10:25am PT
Todd. That little scratch? I need to show you how to get a real Boo Boo, a manly Boo Boo.
Karl Baba

Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
Sep 30, 2008 - 10:36am PT
I saw the boo-boo and surely Yur Gonna die!!

and die sooner than when you were in your 20s.


I wouldn't trust Locker to stitch it up though. I think he could glue a rubber patch on it and maybe that would help you climb too.



Why does gravity cling to age?







Joshua Tree, that place has short-crag syndrome. It feels small compared to Yosemite so it overcompensates with sandbags, runouts, and other nasty surprises.




The Sun-wrecked Locals probably hardly notice.

;-)

Karl
tdoughty

Mountain climber
descanso, ca
Sep 30, 2008 - 10:56am PT
The older I get, the worse the boo-boos feel. Was up on Emerson’s se face a week ago, almost to the top, when a loose rock I was standing on decided it was time to move on down the mtn. Stacked on top of it was some microwave sized blocks, one of whom I tried to rescue. It rejected my amorous advances and hurt my feelings, I mean hurt my finger.

300' from the top

Boo-Boo
Brunosafari

Boulder climber
Redmond, OR
Sep 30, 2008 - 11:34am PT

Recommend "Bactine" instead of Iodine. Doesn't sting!

Dress with muppet band-aid.

Factoring in age, allow two and one half years for recovery.

tdoughty

Mountain climber
descanso, ca
Sep 30, 2008 - 11:54am PT
At the time I had no 1st aid supplies, so I stuffed the hand in a polypro glove. Didn't peel it it off untill the next morning...ouch! Bactine? hell I washed with Dr. Bonner's...double ouch! Age? I'm only 51! Wont it be healed by the end of the week? NOT!!! SO kunch for those finger cracks I was eyeing!
looking sketchy there...

Social climber
Latitute 33
Sep 30, 2008 - 12:03pm PT
Lubricated Goat and Bish are modern Josh Classics. Last season we even found evidence of pre-historic malted hops drinking at the base of Bish. If the water at Barker Dam is high, the approach across the dam and boulders will take considerably longer than 10 minutes. PS: Beware the ants.
Nate D

climber
San Francisco
Sep 30, 2008 - 01:38pm PT
Classic list of excuses, Todd! May I borrow them?
Dr. Rock

Ice climber
http://tinyurl.com/4oa5br
Sep 30, 2008 - 03:44pm PT
I thought it was BISP, boner in sweat pants?

For mountain bike rash i userd to keep a bottle of Southern Comfort next to the bathtub.

A couple of snocks, then the ivory soap, then the toothbrush, ouch!

If you clean the heck out of it, you don't even need the expensive medicine, just let the dog lick it a few times and I'm done.

I mean your done.

I don't mess with ani-mules.
They are too smalll.



tamberly

Trad climber
san diego
Sep 30, 2008 - 11:12pm PT
all right to dirtineye..... doncha know J tree has NO sport climbing.....you might think so....until ya get on one.. they tend to be hard and run out...but I will say this climb looked well bolted which is very unusual for Jtree....

Take care of your BOO BOO.... neosporin, neosporin, don't let it dry up
tamberly

Trad climber
san diego
Sep 30, 2008 - 11:15pm PT
by the way...WOODY is a pro at "manly" boo boo's :)
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