Help a fellow Ferrari owner relocate to the Rockies.

hardtop · Jul 23, 2012

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The guy that filmed that video, Max, is 52. I went climbing in Montana a few years ago with another friend from Colorado Springs. He buried me on the hike in. I was 40 at the time and he was 60. You're only as old as you feel.

Max is certifiable. They call him Mad Max up in BC. His name is all over the Cascades "first ascent" lists. He has over 8000 flights as a paraglider and he routinely flies off that peak he's on in the video. The inside of his house is a climbing gym. Hand holds all over the walls and ropes hanging from the ceiling. His kids love it. Interesting guy.

Out of the blue this week, I got an email from Ball asking to go to an online reference system and put in 5 references. They said they were doing a back ground check and would call me at the end of the week (didn't happen) or early next week (fingers crossed it happens). So all signs point to maybe.
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Max sounds pretty cool. Arthritic fingers have ended my vertical rock climbing. Too much pain.

I am quicker than my 49 year old partner but he lives 2K feet lower and is carrying a little excess baggage shall we say. I've been passed by enough 20somethings to know there is no substitute for young hearts and lungs. But I do OK. Twenty years ago, it seemed like everyone on the mountain was around my age. Now I'm almost always the oldest. One of my friends says all his old climbing partners turned into fat, lazy sofa spuds.

That's encouarging about Ball. Perhaps they were hoping to find a better fit and failed.

Dave

PS: We are planning on climbing Crestone Needle this weekend. This is the fourth or fifth time we've planned it but always got skunked for various reasons. It's like it is jinxed even before we start and has turned into an obsession. I don't have very many left to do.

Futureman · Jul 23, 2012

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Max sounds pretty cool. Arthritic fingers have ended my vertical rock climbing. Too much pain.

I am quicker than my 49 year old partner but he lives 2K feet lower and is carrying a little excess baggage shall we say. I've been passed by enough 20somethings to know there is no substitute for young hearts and lungs. But I do OK. Twenty years ago, it seemed like everyone on the mountain was around my age. Now I'm almost always the oldest. One of my friends says all his old climbing partners turned into fat, lazy sofa spuds.

That's encouarging about Ball. Perhaps they were hoping to find a better fit and failed.

Dave

PS: We are planning on climbing Crestone Needle this weekend. This is the fourth or fifth time we've planned it but always got skunked for various reasons. It's like it is jinxed even before we start and has turned into an obsession. I don't have very many left to do.
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Yeah, Max is a trip. He built the fabric structure that Bigelow Aerospace used for their inflatable space station that's in orbit right now. That was all spawned by his manufacture, use and instruction of 300 foot slings for deep mountain helicopter extraction for both rescue and military operations. Crazy dude.

You'll like the Needle. Great climbing rock. On top you can see the dunes to the south.

As for Ball...time to start a new thread.

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