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MisterE
Trad climber
One Step Beyond!
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 11, 2009 - 12:15am PT
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Medium Sooze and I were discussing how many possible scenarios we have seen where the climbing guys stop climbing after a relationship. Short of pregnancy, this rarely comes up with the women climbers, we resolved.
Ones we came up with:
Boy meets Climber Girl, they get preggers, climbing career DONE!
Boy meets Girl who says she's a climber, he moves in, they get in nesting mode. Climbing career DONE!
Boy meets non-climbing Girl, they move in together, she becomes the better climber - he gets depressed. Climbing career DONE!
Boy meets Girl, she seems active, but when they move in together, she forbids him to be away with other people (especially if there is another woman there). Climbing career DONE!
Boy meets Girl at climbing gym. She wants to "learn how to climb" and pursues him with great rigor. She gets him.
Climbing career DONE!
There's more
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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May 11, 2009 - 12:27am PT
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bogus categories mang.
how many of said incidents have you actually seen?
no way
most mistake causation for correlation for starters
:?)
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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May 11, 2009 - 12:27am PT
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Climber does as he damn well pleases,GIRL is DONE!
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AllezAllez510
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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May 11, 2009 - 12:28am PT
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Boy meets climbing girl. Girl dumps boy. Boy starts surfing.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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May 11, 2009 - 12:28am PT
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Boy meets climbing girl. Girl dumps boy. Boy starts [big wall soloing A5].
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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May 11, 2009 - 12:30am PT
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yer insightful, but too cynical!
You've met my daughter, Natalie, Erik. I sorta feel like Sooze has, as well, though it hasn't worked out that way. In any case she IS a climber, on her own terms.
My conclusion; luck into doing it right and it's never 'DONE' and in a best case scenario, like I am attempting to live, you just high five it into another generation.
isn't that how WE got here, E Wolfe?
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AllezAllez510
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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May 11, 2009 - 12:33am PT
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I have two (former) partners who have fallen victim to the nesting instinct.
"Hey, wanna climb on Saturday?"
"Nah, gotta work on the garden with (insert SO name here."
"Nah, we have to have dinner with (insert name of other couple here)"
"Nah, we have tickets to Circque Du Soleil."
I've heard em all.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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May 11, 2009 - 12:37am PT
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Poor bastards.
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WBraun
climber
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May 11, 2009 - 12:42am PT
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Girl dumps Tucker many years ago and Tucker starts soloing El Cap routes back to back in his g-string harness.
Girl dumps Shipley and then goes on a "I want to die" free soloing binge.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Rustys Saloon
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May 11, 2009 - 12:43am PT
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single climber guy meets non climber girl. climbing time reduced 50%. They get married, and have a kid, climbing time reduced another 50%. have another kid, and his career is done. . . .at least for another 18 years.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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May 11, 2009 - 01:04am PT
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The social complexities of being
P-Whipped.
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GDavis
Trad climber
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May 11, 2009 - 01:05am PT
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Its not the climbing career thats done, its the HOBBY thats done.
Some guys take being a boyfriend/husband/father as a hobby. young married dudes rarely have hobbies. These aren't true climbers, but people looking to pass the time until they can start shooting out some children with an activity thats fun and provides comradery.
A guy that I know just had his first baby, and his wife told him he wasn't allowed to climb anything that required a rope anymore. He makes a weekly pilgrimage to the bouldering gym, and wishes of bigger things... if you want to keep climbing, better tie your pecker to your leg.
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jewedlaw
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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May 11, 2009 - 01:14am PT
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I'm currently pursuing a girl who doesn't climb.
My Climbing Career is DONE.
See you at the gym.
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MisterE
Trad climber
One Step Beyond!
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Topic Author's Reply - May 11, 2009 - 01:34am PT
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Clarification for GDavis:
career: a field for or pursuit of consecutive progressive achievement especially in public, professional, or business life
hobby: a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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May 11, 2009 - 02:25am PT
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So, you saying, Sewelley, that in the next 18 yrs, yer gonna let just anyone, teach those kids how to climb?
Step up to the plate of life, we're talking responsibility, here!
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 11, 2009 - 07:14am PT
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My#2 ice climbing partner got married last summer to a womaN with a kid.
He climbed a grand total of 2 times last winter. Once with me and once with the new wife. The rest of the time the kid had ski races or the wife needed her hubby... yada yada ya.....
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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May 11, 2009 - 08:14am PT
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There's nothing intrinsically important about climbing. It's just something some people choose to do because they like it. And then some of those climbers find other things to do.
I've managed to keep climbing for more than fifty years because I found other things in life, including a non-climbing wife, a daughter, and a ``real'' career that were, in general, more compelling than climbing, and this has allowed me to continue to enjoy climbing too.
One of my observations is that you find out if you really enjoy climbing (as opposed to climbing accomplishments) when you start to lose your peak abilities to the ravages of age.
Personally, I'd hate to have reached my somewhat advanced age and look back on little more than a very long string of ascents...
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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May 11, 2009 - 08:27am PT
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Now, I don't mind THAT one.....
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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May 11, 2009 - 09:17am PT
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Fun, funny thread.
boy climbs. boy climbs with other boys. all boys begin to pass through various stages of adulthood. some boys fall prey to scenarios mentioned above.
like a game of musical chairs, one falls out each round when the music stops, until one boy is left, climbing.
boy looks around and says "how did I get here?"
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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May 11, 2009 - 09:24am PT
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Climber meet non-climbing girl years younger than he is..
Climber teaches girl to climb and they travel and climb all over the place for years....
Climber marries girl and they have 3 children.
Everyone is toast.....
(This is a true story...)
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