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  1. So thing 2 has taken up climbing. I can't climb with him. I am going to set up a top rope for him and his friend tomorrow. Am I doing the right thing?

  2. I don't think I could ever get rid of my climbing stuff. Climbing is life, and I think I'd rather die than accept a lifetime without it. At least now I can convince myself that it's only temporary! Maybe it's delusion, but keeping my rack in the closet is a necessary part of harboring that delusion.

     

    I kept my gear for 5 years with no climbing. it is like keeping a toy that never gets played with. my gear is going to a home where it will be used, travel to Thailand, maybe go to Greece. plus to to Leavenworth and Smith and exit 38. how can i deny my gear such a full life?

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    "My sense is, you love it too."

     

     

     

    I am not sure love is a strong enough word

     

    I can certainly relate. I sold my rock gear in the '90s. Except for harness, shoes (still have those fires'), and other sundries... Ropes, rack, etc... Gone. The friend I sold (gave away) this box full of stuff to couldn't believe his luck but I was done with serious rock climbing and I knew it. I was always more of an alpine guy at heart but I did so love rock climbing. It was an obsession there for a while...

     

    I realized it on the summit of the Grand Teton, after a solo climb of the Owen Spalding Route. I wanted that summit so bad and when I got there, I just felt empty. Man, I was just worn out. I did really enjoy meeting Jim Donini on the summit that day though. We chatted away about climbing and stuff he was working on in Alaska at the time then descended together, doing the double rope rappel... Very cool. It took me a few years away but the fire returned...

     

    Anyways, story time's over, promise. Sounds like you need some more time before you give away your stuff Muff. JMHO

     

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    i need more time but my health doesn't. I have done nothing but get more sick over the past 5 years. this is part of the acceptance that i am not getting better. i don't like it but i don't think i am supposed to. it is just what needs to be done.

  4. Once a climber always a climber. I climb outside like once a very couple of months because I am an engaged father of two.....but they are getting older and I now take them with me.

     

    YOU WILL CLIMB AGAIN!

     

     

    i hope you are right :) gunna be damn expensive to replace all my gear when that day comes :noway:

  5. and all my friends who are climbers, goodbye. i can no longer call myself a climber. I really haven't climbed since 2007. now it is time to kiss the rock goodbye along with my gear. it is with a river of tears and a heavy heart that i do this. I wish you all well and great climbing. Thank you so much all of you for all of the good times, great climbs and random meetings at the Sun Spot, spring things and love fests. we have had some good times. I give my gear away on the 17th of August to a new climber. Today I tried to climb with my old climbing partner for the last time. eventually i should prolly get rid of my cc.com account.

     

     

    I think it's ok to quit and not have to endure the pain if that's the options. Find something you love to do and reveling it. Lifes too short already. Wish you the best! Warm regards and thank YOU for the memories too.

     

    thank you bill. thank you for understanding.

  6. i know this dude who regularly quits climbing every few years, sells off all his gear, yet is always back out before too long

     

    hey, fat, creaky bastards are all mt hood and the like, so take a big long nap, get good n' drunk, n' get back out there, hear?

     

    Ivan if it were that easy i would be back in a flash. maybe someday this will be possible and i plan to hold on to hope. :moondance:

  7. After injuring myself six years ago climbing dropped to near zero, but I'm on the way back. No desire for El Cap, but there are lots of cool peaks with rock climbing. :wave:

     

    thank you for the inspiration Kurt. We will see what the future brings.

  8. you are all the best and i love you dearly but my body is failing. I will hold out hope because you do. but i am still giving away my gear and hanging up my prana top. and maybe i will keep my cc.com just to see what is going on :moondance:

  9. and all my friends who are climbers, goodbye. i can no longer call myself a climber. I really haven't climbed since 2007. now it is time to kiss the rock goodbye along with my gear. it is with a river of tears and a heavy heart that i do this. I wish you all well and great climbing. Thank you so much all of you for all of the good times, great climbs and random meetings at the Sun Spot, spring things and love fests. we have had some good times. I give my gear away on the 17th of August to a new climber. Today I tried to climb with my old climbing partner for the last time. eventually i should prolly get rid of my cc.com account.

  10. I bet if you punched that counting crows guy in the face he'd cry real woman tears

    wouldn't that be like punching gandhi though?

     

    jesus christ, wouldn't that be fun?

    you want to punch jesus christ??? IVAN??!!!!!!?????? okay i can see it you are like 12 feet tall. Evil Ivan!
  11. I bet if you punched that counting crows guy in the face he'd cry real woman tears

     

     

    now is this some reference to someone actually on cc.com or are you talking about the actual Counting Crows?

     

    your spray fu is conFUsing. :crazy:

  12. I've been married since '79 to Sue, my climbing partner. I can't be too mean to her, since she belays me. Treat your wife like a new climbing buddy. You know: you kiss up to them, you put up with their bullsh*t, agree when you know they are wrong, forgive them when they drop your cam, or back your car into a light post.

     

    In return, your climbing buddy will like/respect you since you are such a prince, and be more likely to kiss up to you in the same fashion.

     

    But seriously, I think marriage skills are best learned from growing up with the successful marriages of your parents and grandparents. If they weren't there for you...I guess books or counselors would be an alternative.

     

    Also, as climbing buddies getting married, we agreed that if either of us ever got fat, it was an automatic divorce. We've stuck by that, she is still slim and very fit, 34 years after I met her.

     

    I have also puzzled over my many friends who seem to be very intelligent and sensitive people...and whose marriages fall apart. I wish I had an easy answer, but I don't.

     

    It can work though. It's getting rare, but it can work. She's coming to jtree with me this year...it's gonna be awesome!

     

    a family trip to yosemite, lower half of this page. Sue, my son Clint and daughter Lisa:

    http://www.websterart.com/html/yosemite07.html

     

    One benefit of a stable marriage is it gives the kids a rock solid foundation on which to grow. There was relatively little chaos in the house as they grew up, so they seemed to be on rails, toward success. Nothing distracted them from their studies. I was quite amazed when they both became RN's, working together in a local hospital ER room.

     

    A reliable wife is a very cool thing.

     

     

    i want to think you are being funny about the if someone gets fat comment... but seriously i haven't been able to climb for several years now because of an auto immune disease that prohibits me from even working out most of the time (too many board white blood cells) so what if your wife were stricken with some disease or lost the use of her limbs... would you stop loving her? would you not want to change your world to match up with hers in some way? i feel really fortunate to be with a man who loves me even though my world has been ripped away from me.

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