Re: What a 95 Percenter Looks Like

He no need no stinkin trail!

Please come back when you are 70 and also doing this.

Thanks

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Old Dude!!!!

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The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.

Give us a few years. THis is M working her way down the granite slabs above Lake Vernon ...less than ten years short of 70. The actual number is classified information.

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Or just read a good mystery novel set in the Sierra; https://www.amazon.com/Danger-Falling-Rocks-Paul-Wagner/dp/0984884963

Me tinks ewe in trubble! hehehe

Here be Z Old Guy at 60 in the same area:


and then:


I'm not kidding. He's 60 in those faux toes... and the one above was taken last weekend.

Gotta luv the first one. Can you just read his mind?

Hey, what can I say? I made it thru just fine thanks.

Have fun and don't stop hike-on

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Also... do you like that it seems he hasn't changed his shirt in a decade?

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chick-on

Also... do you like that it seems he hasn't changed his shirt in a decade?

I presume that's because he only buys quality clothing that lasts and lasts through the years.

No need to purchase new stuff if the old stuff is still in good condition.

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Me purty sure he's had about 20 of those shirts.

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chick-on
Me purty sure he's had about 20 of those shirts.

Nothing wrong with that.

I would just like to point out that we didn't have to bushwhack, and we were always walking, not clambering class IV style.

Route finding is a skill that you learn...with age?

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Check our our website: http://www.backpackthesierra.com/
Or just read a good mystery novel set in the Sierra; https://www.amazon.com/Danger-Falling-Rocks-Paul-Wagner/dp/0984884963

I'll try that way next time. Been up and down it many many times since that first time up it.
There's a zillion ways up and down. I like to mix it up baby. I like bush.

Goes down it with snow shoes tooz:


Herez the top with da license plate marka in da tree:


Have funs

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Looking good.

Old Dude rocks. And he makes a mean breakfast....

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Bearproof
Old Dude rocks. And he makes a mean breakfast....

+99999999. And peels a mean grapefruit.

Some foe-toes of Da Man this past July...

Approaching Basket Dome:


At the zen tree on Basket. I had to stand on the uphill side just to be eye-to-eye:


On Mt. Watkins, I think:




Heading up the NE buttress of Watkins (and, as it turns out, avoiding a sure-death tree fall):


On the way up Pothole:




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Bearproof
Old Dude rocks. And he makes a mean breakfast....

Old Dude makes hot chocolate from scratch using minced chocolate melted in a sauce pan, too!

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The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.

I heard a rumor that after bushwacking to the river, Old Dude made use of an old fire ring and tried to bar-b-que

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The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.

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Bee
I heard a rumor that after bushwacking to the river, Old Dude made use of an old fire ring and tried to bar-b-que

Nut much I can do if the turkeys no read the brochure!

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I mean... sheesh... tell him to pull my finger and I get this:


So wutt ya spect?

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Later that evening:

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Old Dude

Still waiting for it to hatch:



(note that Z old guy got a diff colour shirt on)

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Later still:

Damn I look Tasty. Eat me.

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Not bad looking for something stuffed with Chinese floor sweepings. Yum!