Admit it. You're getting older

[teleee]

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" Satchel Paige
Some days I am 25 others I am pushing 70

[liv2ski]

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" Satchel Paige
Some days I am 25 others I am pushing 70

Some days my mind may be 25 years old, but the body knows it's over 50, so it keeps the mind in check from trying anything stupid.

[hawkgt]

I dont know what old really is anymore. I keep pushing out that date in my mind as I keep putting on the days. I feel like an immature 45 yo trying to figure life out but all things considered it is going well. great family, healthy, and doing good job wise. Never been a full ski bum as I hoped early in life but skiing more now than I ever dreamed I would and just enjoying life. i realize now life is not all work or all play but a balanced combination of all. life is good and I want more.

edit: it DOES take a hell of alot longer to recover

[jmars]

ear hair.

This...amazing and true.

[doughboyshredder]

Unless she is overweight, she will probably have left you by then.

Snap. Not often that a comment makes me laugh out loud.

[XXX-er]

https://www.facebook.com/BearMountai...type=3&theater

Here come de judge ^^ this last spring at Burnie hut, Mike is a 77 year old retired judge, a week of perfect weatehr allowed us to do all the classic Burnie routes which is alot of big terrain including a 1st descent of a new line we named "the guilty verdict" in his honor.

there were a couple of 40 yr old youngsters on the trip but most everyone was old including one of the guides, a couple of guys with heart issues,

[Cayuse]

Growing older is fine as long as I don't have to grow up!

And I'm right around the age of most of you posting hear, old enough to have an AARP card, young enough to get out and play!

[hutash]

Age is as much attitude as it is trips around the sun. I've know 40 year old old men, and 85 year old youngsters.

I may not be a physically capable as some young punk, but I am often mentally tougher and can hold my own and some times better then from shear experience or mental toughness alone. (and other days they kick my ass )

[Timberridge]

(and other days they lick my ass )

Eeww.

[hutash]

Eeww.

apparently the K and L keys are right next to each other

[Timberridge]

apparently the K and L keys are right next to each other

We're getting older, its hard to see sometimes.

[smartyiak]

I knew I was getting older once I was willing to pay $10 to park rather than walk .5mi (This does not apply to ski lots...still refuse to pay for parking there).

[XXX-er]

An ultra runner buds tells me most of the ultra guys are older as in the 50-60 range and he was suprised there were so many younger folk at the everest challenge

[raisingarizona13]

Unless she is overweight, she will probably have left you by then.

It might be sooner than later.

Last night I woke up from a little bit of gas. I let one ride and it ended up being a full on blow out. It went everywhere, it somehow even got into her hair.

She was not happy.

[abe froman]

I'm 41 and I just started to realize nobody told me that this shit starts to happen after 40.

+1 on the time to recover, random unexplained joint pain, going to bed/waking up early.

I also just started to take meds for an over active bladder! Now I don't have the urge to piss ever 45min or wake up 4-5 x a night to piss!

I ski and mountain bike more now than I did in my 30's which is a great thing!

[::: :::]

It might be sooner than later.

Last night I woke up from a little bit of gas. I let one ride and it ended up being a full on blow out. It went everywhere, it somehow even got into her hair.

She was not happy.

LOL
almost spilled my drink here...

time for:

[AK47bp]

As a mischievous youngster I remember calling my mom from pay phones or someone's house saying I was somewhere else when I actually would take the trolley to the city and roam the streets with friends.
Before caller ID and *69.

Once those technologies came out I had to really be strategic through Jr High and HighSchool when lying about my whereabouts.

Now we have cell phones and can lie about our whereabouts again.

Full circle of it all makes me feel old.

[swissiphic]

Ski touring growing older (and wiser?) =

"halve the stride, arrive revived". Just because there's a redline for rpm's for the engine doesn't mean a guy has to keep it pinned from bottom to top of skin trails...
Discover the 'rest step'...tap a nap while ski touring uphill straight up the fall line.
Sleep in on pow days, show up late, use the skin trail the early birds that got the worm wallowed through thigh deep pow to put in and ski your personal stashes...because you're old and you know the mountain.
While deskinning at the top of skin trails, take a little break, have a smoke and smell the surface hoar...take off skis one by one to tear the hides rather than doing the fancy balancey ripping skins while skis still on feet thingy that was so cool when yer younger and pretending every ski tour is a rando race...hurts the back to twist and bend.

Buy a recumbent bike...you realize a 'normal' bicycle is as comfortable as a medieval torture device.

[TNKen]

Downside of getting old is you get to see the doc more often. Knees and hips from skiing. Wrist from riding the dirt bike. Have tinnitus from too much Advil.

Went for my annual physical this week and get to ride the silver snake on Monday, preceded by a thorough GI cleansing. Shit.

My dad's favorite saying "The Golden Years ain't so damned golden."

[Meadow Skipper]

I'm 41 and I just started to realize nobody told me that this shit starts to happen after 40.

Heh. I'd be willing to bet that some people tried to but that you weren't listening. I get that a lot when I try to pass on my hard-earned (and solid) knowledge to the less chronologically gifted.

Downside of getting old is you get to see the doc more often.

Truth. I've seen docs more often in the last year or two than I did in my 30s and 40s combined.

[KQ]

I remember:

Paying a nickle to make a phone call from a pay phone
Gas was under .50 a gallon
Rotary dial telephones (and when fancy cool push button or "touch tone" phones became widely available*)
Mimeographs
Having a black & white TV and only 4 channels with rabbit ears (WTF was the UHF all about?)
Waiting forever, it seemed, for your film to be developed (and the advent of "Photo Hut")
With .25 allowance I could buy 3 full sized candy bars
$50 got my mom 10 bags of groceries (and she complained about the cost)
$1 got you a bag of burgers (5) from Dick's Drive-in
Popsicles from the little truck that cruised around in the summer were .10
When 9-1-1 didn't exist and you had to keep the numbers for Police and Fire written down next to the phone

Does anyone remember how you could dial your own phone number from your home phone, hang-up and it would ring? We used to do this all the time to get someone somewhere else in the house to pick-up.


* Re push button phones - when they first came out and had the # and * keys they had no function and everyone wondered about them. I remember my father telling me "someday you'll be able to push those buttons and turn on the lights in your house". LOL!

[swissiphic]

quote
"Does anyone remember how you could dial your own phone number from your home phone, hang-up and it would ring? We used to do this all the time to get someone somewhere else in the house to pick-up."

man, phones were fun as a kid...you could do random prank calls cause no call display. pay phones were everywhere and you could push the "pound" button down half way and talk for free...if not, use up a karma credit and call the operator and tell them you lost your dime and they'd believe you and put your call through...ahhh, the good old days.

[Woodrow Woodpecker]

I'd like a cell phone with a rotary dial on it. Period. That's it. Call in. Call out. Done. Don't need any of that other stuff.


Most of my friends who had kids are now grandparents. - Ha!

On the other end; lot of us are down to one, or none, parents left.

[Mofro261]

I guess I'm not that old after all- I don't remember a Dick's burger ever being less than 35 cents, also about the price of a scoop of ice cream.

The first time I went to Whistler (before Blackcomb) my youth ticket was $3.25, and an adult ticket was @$11.

[Cayuse]

I remember:

$1 got you a bag of burgers (5) from Dick's Drive-in

And Dick's Drive-in still sells burgers by the bag full, they are way more than $1 now though the grease content is probably the same. Ice-Burg in Walla^2 is much better.