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obe
Mar 11, 2005, 3:37 PM
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How old were you when you started climbing?
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chrisparedes
Mar 11, 2005, 3:41 PM
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I wish I had started younger. I got into climbing a year ago at 18.
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screamer
Mar 11, 2005, 3:42 PM
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About 18...
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icarus_burned
Mar 11, 2005, 3:43 PM
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on and off since i was about 15 - by that i mean going once evry year or so then i got to 21 and ive been at the gym 2 x a week at least until recently when i had an operation....cant wait to get back to it. only about another week or 2
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chronicle
Mar 11, 2005, 3:45 PM
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20. It was tough going out afterwards.
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angry
Mar 11, 2005, 3:46 PM
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17, I took a class because a girl I had a crush on took the class. I didn't spend any time on the rock until I was 21 or so though.
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Mar 11, 2005, 3:49 PM
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Damn National Geographic Magazine!!! I could have been a nobody!
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justthemaid
Mar 11, 2005, 3:57 PM
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I was 30. I really wish I'd taken that class my dad tried to talk me into when I was 18. Dammit! I could been a contender. Now I'm just happy to get up a 10a alive.
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alpinerock
Mar 11, 2005, 4:12 PM
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13/14 somewhere inbetween there, but i've always been a climber at heart. As a little kid i climbed everthing, trees, cars, and even started buildering. When i played with Lego's i would make a lego cliff and make my action figures climb it
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spikeyhair13
Mar 11, 2005, 4:35 PM
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12, and still climbing strong
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hanginaround
Mar 11, 2005, 4:58 PM
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I started climbing at 45 with my then 12 year old son. He's kinda flaked but I'm hooked.
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chanceboarder
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i was 14 and climbed on and off for about 8 years and have been climbing seriously for the past 2 now. wish i had started seriously climbing a long time ago.
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crag_shwagger
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cologman
Mar 12, 2005, 12:04 AM
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15/16 & now 53 :shock:
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mattm
Mar 12, 2005, 12:06 AM
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11 - now 26
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boardline22
Mar 12, 2005, 12:14 AM
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15, now i'm 16
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comet
Mar 12, 2005, 12:44 AM
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age 4, at the gunks! it's too bad i took a whole bunch of time off in high school and college to play organized sports; i should be climbing WAY harder.
yup, too bad, so sad.
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mesomorf
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35 years ago, at age 14.
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Mar 12, 2005, 12:59 AM
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started climbing at 23.. been climbing almost a year now...
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twdirty
Mar 12, 2005, 1:33 AM
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Since I was 18. I should probably get a harness and some rope soon.
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crimpergirl
Mar 12, 2005, 1:56 AM
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I think it was age 32 (or maybe 33 - I can't remember - it's an old age thing).
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wanderinfree
Mar 12, 2005, 2:13 AM
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woo hoo for girls starting after 30. I started when I was 31.
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crimpergirl
Mar 12, 2005, 2:15 AM
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In reply to: woo hoo for girls starting after 30. I started when I was 31.
I'm the big four oh now and I've gotten stronger and climbed harder every year since I started!
We really need a climber chick rendevous.....
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wanderinfree
Mar 12, 2005, 2:40 AM
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In reply to: We really need a climber chick rendevous.....
Hell yeah! But I have the strange feeling that it would be co-sponsored with the first male stalking gathering nearby. :shock: Something about the sheer possibility of a climbing chick pajama party.
We should hold it in Rocky Mountain National Park. Enough variety of climbing for all, and centrally located. Course, i could be biased. :D
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tattooed_climber
Mar 12, 2005, 2:44 AM
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rock or stuff????
cus i was a profession cherry tree climber in elementry school until the school board cut it down...
started serious on rock at 17ish, but owned a harness for years before
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crimpergirl
Mar 12, 2005, 2:45 AM
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I'm serious. We should do it. Who cares if there would be some stalkers lurking on the fringes. So what? Like they've never seen a bunch of ripped, hard, drunk, climber chicks having a pillow fight in their panties....
Who can organize such a thing? Unless you all want to fly into St. Louis (and I know you don't), someone else has got to take the lead. A location that is easy to fly to is preferable.
I'll change my pillowcase right now to get prepared....
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sbwyliedog
Mar 12, 2005, 3:06 AM
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Started at ~30.
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Mar 12, 2005, 3:17 AM
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I vaguely remember attempting a free solo first ascent of a grandfather clock at about two. I probably wouldn't remember it at all except those hurt when they fall!
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Mar 12, 2005, 3:35 AM
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35 - wishing my body responded to all this work like the 18 year old's, but happy to be getting strong and loving climbing :D
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make sure and keep ME updated on this ripped drunk girls pillow fighting in their panties deal ;)
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pepsbandit
Mar 12, 2005, 3:45 AM
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Started when I was eight. Competed since I was 11. Burned out at 13, now back at 16 and have sworn never to compete again! So I guess I'll be climbing forever!
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Mar 12, 2005, 3:47 AM
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Started at age 42, a week ago sunday. I'm kicking ass falling off the wall at the gym, looking, I'm sure, like a complete goofball.
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godawgs
Mar 12, 2005, 3:53 AM
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I don't really know, but I have a neon green and hot pink chalk bag which probably came out of the late '80's/ early '90's. I bought it when I first started and i'm 19 now. Judging from that I was probably 8 or nine years old when I started.
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irockclimb
Mar 12, 2005, 4:07 AM
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i started when i was 10 years old excpet then i was more reckless then i am now. i figured out wat scary and not scary are
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james_climber
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13 and now im 23 , i wish i had got a regular partner in that time , but i haven't ,so when i was in the magic age i couldn't train or climb more often
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12volt_man
Mar 12, 2005, 4:54 AM
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I think Ford was in the White House when I started. :roll:
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giza
Mar 12, 2005, 5:25 AM
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30 but I crank like I'm 80
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damon99
Mar 12, 2005, 5:58 PM
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it was a bet with a frined, that "hell, i'll climb that 60 feet rock! - No u wont, u bloody pikey! - nahah! watch me!" ... made a love with a rock ever sence :roll: started seriously climbing (by SERIOUSLY i mean almost everyday, learning new techniques, taking classes, etc) 1.5 months ago :D
and now im 19.. so whatever.. 18-19. :?
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rockrat511
Mar 12, 2005, 6:12 PM
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11, had my own gear by 12, 22 now
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Mar 12, 2005, 6:29 PM
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i win... i started when i was 6 and was sport leading by age 7...... hard to belive that was about 13-14 years ago... starting young is good... but climbing is good at any age..
i climbed dirdre this summer with a man that was in his early 80s.. best day i think that i have ever hade on the rock..
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p_grandbois
Mar 12, 2005, 6:34 PM
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12 years old. My dad was a Ironworker, i used to climb around to mimic him, then the next thing I know, I am on a rock 9 years later.
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Mar 12, 2005, 6:42 PM
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Toddler I reckon. Like most children I had to be told NOT to climb.
I didn't do that to my kids.
Trees, barns, what have you. Boulders too.
Roped climbing at 13.
Most humans are climbers. We are descended from climbers. It is a perfectly natural thing to do. Ever notice how pleasing, or um, fitting (?) it is to hold a branch or a stick in your hand? That isn't an accident you know.
People like to ask the stupid... 'why climb?' A more apt question is why not climb.
DMT
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the_tall_guy
Mar 12, 2005, 6:59 PM
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Eeee gawd: 28 years ago at the age of 15. My interest has been low the last couple of years due to a growing interest in cycling, but I'm getting excited again about the rock. I've got a big route (for me) planned for this summer: Red Dihedral on the Incredible Hulk. Can't wait!
Scott
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damon99
Mar 12, 2005, 8:08 PM
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hehe, i have belayed myself from my mothers stomach on a chord :D just kiddin :)
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Mar 12, 2005, 8:13 PM
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Since the first tree I ever climbed, probably age 3-4. I remember going to the gym on my 14th B-day for an intro course and thinking my rock star climbing instructor was cool - but didn't really have the patience to climb formally. I aways new I was a climber though - in grade 9 I thought I'd impress the lady's by ascending two floors and climbing in through the window for the start of my computer exam. Once they all started watching me my finger tips started to sweat and therefore slip - sheesh! Good thing I landed on a collapsable table hehe, I still get reminded of that one from time to time. Started seriously training when I was 21.
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Mar 12, 2005, 8:48 PM
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First time i climbed--- 5 or 6 years old got serious at about 13.... still going strong at 15
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In reply to: Started at age 42, a week ago sunday. I'm kicking ass falling off the wall at the gym, looking, I'm sure, like a complete goofball.
Hang in there, the best is yet to come, "the last for which the first was made."
I started at age 41 in 1971. Still falling off things and having fun.
Cheers,
Rob.calm
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Mar 12, 2005, 10:04 PM
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25, not count boy scout stuff.
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Started when I was 11 or so and I've never looked back. I'm 17 now.
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ss512climber
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Like most I was 18 and that was hmmm well I don't wanna do the math. still feels like last year. but it wasn't :oops:
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soulclimberchick
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15, I'm Now almost 20... :lol:
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My various family members started me technical climbing (after hiking and scrambling) Let's see. The Vertical Club started about '86/'87 I think, so I must have been about 5 then when my aunt taught me to belay. My grandpa taught me ice axe basics about age 7. I learned to lead sport climbs about 12.
Now 22 and trying to remember how to do everything, plus learn trad and go climb some more mountains. My grandpa stopped climbing, my aunt moved away,and I had a lengthy love affair with speed that only my mountain bike could fulfill.
Self-sufficiency is awesome: Buying a rope, six quickdraws, and a car changed my life :D
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Started at 19, but then took a long time off. Now, I've been back at it hard and fast for about a year now (I'm 34).
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I started when I was about 9. I got serious about when I was twelve, and began using the money i made off allowance and pet sitting (oh, the memories) to buy a rope, a harness, an atc and carabiner, climbing shoes, and some webbing and carabiners.
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Mar 13, 2005, 9:31 PM
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the umbilical chord was my first rope woo hoo!!
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lagarita
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I started about four months ago and I'm hooked. The biggest thing that has shocked me about climbing is how you all are to except in new people. I can go the gym any day of the week and partner up with someone. I'm not sure if you all just have cabin fever and are willing to climb with anyone during these winter months, or its genuine. I hope you all are like this on the crags.
I know someone is going to take a shot at the "you all" comment.
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I was about 15 or so when I first got into a gym... I was 17 before i really got interested and got into a routine.
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16. Now 68. 8^)
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In reply to: 16. Now 68. 8^)
Jeeze John, that makes Rich Goldstone with his mere 47 years of climbing experience look like a n00b. :lol:
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Well, i started when i was 7 at my dad's buisiness' party on a portable wall that i climbed all day until i got it. Then at 9 i climbed another portable wall at another 1 of my dad's business' partys. Then i moved to saratoga, CA at 10 and went to REI every week on thursday while i was 10 for the year pretty much unless they closed it, other plans, etc. and we only got to do 2 climbs. Then i started to go to Planet Granite on and off, then they closed the wall at REI for a year so i dint go climbing that year at all, and now im in 7th grade at 12 years old and i am doing it for serious for 2 months now every week at Touchstone San Jose (Bouldering only).
And there is my climbing career so far.
P.S. i gave you all of this cuz i started climbing again and again every time but now im hooked for good.
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I grew up in the mountains so climbing trees and whatnot at a young age... First real awarness of climbing at 16 w/ girl scouts... First time outdoors in college about 18-19... serious starting at 23 and in the best shape I have been because of it
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I'm 11 and I started climbing about one month ago.
I went climbing 2 times and I go every 3 weeks.
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22 years old while studying.
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I grew up in south Mississippi. For those of you that don't know the geography, THERE'S NO ROCK! However, I was born to climb. I split my chin at 3 or 4 yo climbing the shelves in my closet. I was forever on top of buildings and swingsets, or swinging in the trees. National Geographic and TV got me interested in rock, and in high school, trips around the country got me hooked. I'm now 30, live in Tennessee, and have passed the climbing gene on to my 3 kids.
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always loved climbing, never really had the opportunity to do it often until about a year ago at age 17. I had climbed indoors a couple times and outdoors a few times, but I had never climbed anything challenging outside until last fall. What's even better is after I graduate Highschool this year I'm going to a college in West Virginia near NRG woohoo!!
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In reply to: In reply to: woo hoo for girls starting after 30. I started when I was 31. I'm the big four oh now and I've gotten stronger and climbed harder every year since I started! We really need a climber chick rendevous.....
I started when I was 31 too! And I'm sooooo in for a climber chick rendevous...panties, pillows and what not. :wink:
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I started soon after I turned 25... ummm, and I'm gonna be 26 in a couple weeks.. damn...
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I mantled straight out of the womb!
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I started climbing when I started walking. I would climb anything. I started formally "rock" climbing when I was 15 or 16.
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Started scrambling around back home in the Adirondacks in my teens. Took my first class and learned the ropes :lol: at 30. Carter was prez! Climbed only sporadically after that. Now, pushing 60, I am doing it more than I ever did before and wishing I had all those years of little activity back :!:
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ikefromla
Jun 9, 2005, 12:39 AM
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renxarox
Jun 9, 2005, 12:50 AM
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25 when i started, 28 now
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rock_101
Jun 9, 2005, 1:24 AM
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9 now 13
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saltamonte
Jun 9, 2005, 1:27 AM
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i climbed every tree i could find since 5 but organized safe rockclimbing since 24 yrs old
WHY DON'T THE PEOPLE WHO START THESE THREADS USES A POLL? I don't want to read 6 ot 7 pages of responses to know the year everyone started.
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cintune
Jun 9, 2005, 1:44 AM
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Eighteen months. FA of the Refrigerator. I don't remember any of it.
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duality4569
Jun 9, 2005, 2:02 AM
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9 years old and still goin strong
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korntera
Jun 9, 2005, 2:11 AM
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I start at 20 and am now 21, i started training hard over the summer when I was twenty then kinda let off for winter and have been training hard for the past 3 months.
-Travis
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la_revoution
Jun 9, 2005, 2:17 AM
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I started when i was five.
Started leading when i was twelve
started bigwalls when i was 15
~TY~
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socalbolter
Jun 9, 2005, 3:10 AM
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8, now 38.
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poxic
Jun 9, 2005, 3:11 AM
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I'm 21 now
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hacksaw
Jun 9, 2005, 3:50 AM
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I think I was 15 or 16. I remember going to Eldorado Canyon and paying some old guy with a cigar box, 50 cents to go climbing there. Walking across the old telephone pole bridge scared me more then the climbing did. :shock:
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cosmiccragsman
Jun 9, 2005, 3:54 AM
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11 yrs. old with ropes. 3 years old without ropes. I am now 51.I grew up right outside of Indian Cove at Joshua Tree.
Cosmiccragsman (old geezer :D )
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outsideguyzak
Jun 9, 2005, 4:25 AM
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I was eighteen when i started climbing.... I just turned 19 a week ago, but i've been climbing like crazy past six months.
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blouderk2
Jun 9, 2005, 4:48 AM
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I started when I was 18 and now I am 19. I cant get enough of it! I live and breath climbing :D
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redarmy142
Jun 9, 2005, 5:07 AM
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27. & NOW 27.
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korrigan
Jun 9, 2005, 10:34 AM
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I'm 26, and I've just started climbing this month. After a great evening of climbing some crags yesterday, I can honestly say this gumby-arsed nOOb is now horribly, horribly addicted.
And here's more trips planned for the weekend? :D
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deafclimber
Jun 9, 2005, 1:08 PM
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mcgivney_nh
Jun 9, 2005, 2:10 PM
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I just got into it.....15
I go to the climbing gym down the street about twice a week. Plus extra if I can find someone for a belay.....
Looking to get on some real rock this summer....
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rockrat_co
Jun 9, 2005, 2:43 PM
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azrockclimber
Jun 9, 2005, 2:58 PM
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In reply to: I'm serious. We should do it. Who cares if there would be some stalkers lurking on the fringes. So what? Like they've never seen a bunch of ripped, hard, drunk, climber chicks having a pillow fight in their panties.... Who can organize such a thing? Unless you all want to fly into St. Louis (and I know you don't), someone else has got to take the lead. A location that is easy to fly to is preferable. I'll change my pillowcase right now to get prepared....
i love this idea...I will organize that stalker party
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rockinitinark
Jun 9, 2005, 3:47 PM
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12, hard for the last 3
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slablizard
Jun 9, 2005, 4:21 PM
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I was 20 in 85, I'll be 40 in November....Loong time!
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taualum23
Jun 9, 2005, 4:25 PM
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13. 18 years ago. I did take some pretty major breaks though.
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mgoodro
Jun 9, 2005, 4:27 PM
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arrettinator
Jun 9, 2005, 4:33 PM
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19 was the first time I climbed, but didn't really get into it till I was 20.
I'm 27 now.
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watusi
Jun 9, 2005, 4:40 PM
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I started when I was 10 in 1970 at Mission Gorge in San Diego.
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watusi
Jun 9, 2005, 4:41 PM
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I started when I was 10 in 1970 at Mission Gorge in San Diego.
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lifesstooshort
Jun 9, 2005, 7:21 PM
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13 almost exactly, I'm almost 15 now.
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