I'm telling all my friends who think they're getting too old!
That guy hasn't given into any of the all too common pitfalls of the little voice in your head. Much respect, very inspiring!
I'm moving from Renton to Sultan in about 1 1/2 weeks, I'll be up for afternoon/dawn patrol at Index. I've got some ideas about pre-work jaunts in the Mountain Loop highway area a little later in the summer as well. PM.
It appears to me that what Anker and Houlding are doing is an expression of personal style. The guy trying to summit an 8000 meter peak in shorts, that's an idiot.
Fred Beckey- Pisses all over the best 5.6's in hobnails before there are roads to them, doesn't quit until the entire North Cascades smell like his piss, is now so old he can't even remember what he already pissed on so he does it again to be sure.