10 Years ago this month

[KIX]

at age 42, having never previously climbed, I started bouldering.

noting this anniversary I offer the following: I Love Bouldering.


10 more years.












a few days ago:



shamelesslowballjugroofclimber4lyfe.


p.s. thank you to b.com for all the fantastic friends I have made these past 10 years.

p.s.s. I'm going bouldering.

[stonefiend]

Damn holmes... here I am in Boulder thinking I'm old at 35, getting my ass handed to me by 8 year old girls doing one-arms, yet to remind myself that I climb to continue learning and enjoy; passing joy down to these kids.

21 years of climbing and counting...

I know some ladies (strangely, no men) here in CO that are climbing v12's and 5.14's in their 50's. Keep crushing bro.

[600#gorilla]

fuck kix,


you are old, bro.

lol.

[opie]

Way to represent. You old fart. Here's to many many more years. Us old guys need to stick together.

[ScreamingMedic]

Best post in ages

Gives me hope for the next half of my life.

[Cardboard_Dog]

I thought I got into it old at age 30. Congrats old man. Here's to 10 more years of creaky knees and broken spleens.

[KIX]

Old and 'cranky' .

today is 10 years since I joined this cesspool called b.com.

Having a spectacular climbing weekend.

In a cruel twist of fate, Peck is here....




....sending my projects.

asdf.

[peck]

Sweet baby banging Christ hold me down and fuck me. Aren't you people dead yet?

[peck]

I thought I had successfully clogged Kix's toilet but, alas, it was not to be.

[hweight]

Happy Anniversary, you shriveled old man.

[Lox]

Fuck yeh, kix. Word up.

<3 the t-bickle roof pic and the sedonastona.

[Tronic]

Schralp the gnarr.

[old man]

awesome picture, it speaks to me

thanks for the post, it reminds me of why I am willing to hike to new boulders by myself with a couple of pads and my GSD

keep crankin' old man

[jlane]

10 years well spent.

[600#gorilla]

Fuck bouldering. I hate this sport. Fifteen years wasted. Fuck.

It was a beautiful fucking day out, and, oh, about the 237th time I had been to Rocktown. As I was strapping on my shoes in the Orb area, I looked around and realized, fuck, -- now this hits me hard, like as if I loved dogs, and I had just heard my dog died -- I've climbed pretty much every problem here, and I have zero desire to climb any of these problems ever again or any of the few problems I haven't climbed which are total choss or pretty hard. Right then, I felt my passion for bouldering die.

I've tried bouldering since, but the passion's still dead. I just don't care. I feel like the token hippie who tags along on a bouldering trip. I mostly laze on the rocks and stare at the treetops. I try a V3. I don't get why everyone else is so psyched. At least I'm happy to be outside. Hey this bug is kinda cool.

I have reasons besides having been to Rocktown too often, and I think they're legit. Firstly, there are no stories in bouldering. Ask yourself, have you read or heard a good story about bouldering? And I don't mean ones about drinking and drugs and sex loosely related to bouldering. I mean about actually bouldering. *Crickets* Okay. Take for instance this forum, this forum is a prime example. What is the last thing we would ever talk about? Answer: Actually bouldering. Now why is that? Because actually bouldering is boring. What happens? Joe sent V37 and did this super sick crimp match blah blah YAWN. I'd rather read about alpinists dying on Everest. In fact, I'd rather pour over a Reader's Digest. Bouldering is boring. Someone does three moves. Nothing really happens. Who cares?

Here's another reason bouldering sucks. The tree of FA fruit was plucked pretty much clean about 10 years ago. All we have left are rotten fruits or ones that aren't worth getting the ladder for. Have fun repeating problems for like ... forever.

I have 50 more good reasons I hate bouldering, but I'll do one more because at this point I'm sure you're getting as goddamn bored as I am with all this talk about actual bouldering. Terrible isn't it? I fucking know. Anyhow, so what's the deal with when you've commited an entire year to getting in your best shape ever when *BLAM* you get a little cold, can't climbing for 3 days, and you're pretty much back to square one. What the fuck is that about? Or worse, you blow a tendon and now you have to baby your hand for a year. Whatevs.

You guys should try mountain biking. It's a blast, and sometimes you have a good story to tell.

Happy bouldering. lulz.

- P

lol, i have had the same thoughts about masterbation that you have shared with us here about bouldering, and i think i am going to stop masterbating. yeah, right after i hit submit on this post.

[dm]

KIX is pretty cool, for an old dude.

[KIX]

5 months shy of 20 years ago...... took a few years off due to injuries, joint issues and career commitments. but I am back. have a Gneiss new area to develop in the PNW.

https://earth.google.com/web/@48.04222715,-119.90959678,341.21591094a,116.36507292d,35y,93.28460177h,59.99621265t,-0r/data=OgMKATA?authuser=0

more fodder from my 50's: https://www.facebook.com/SedonaBouldering

lastly, you might want to consider tracking down campusmang and offering him a contract to provide/instigate worthy content here. not that I read the content here, I just post.

oh yeah, I have new shoes.

AND pads!

[sprockets]

Hell yeah

[sprockets]

Good bump