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The rock climbing is only bouldering for exercise on a climbing wall. The falling works about the same, though, except that there is padding.

I wouldn't say I'm so strict or lenient at hiking. How about lackadaisical? And don't forget the biking, the caving, the sailing, the rafting, and whatever activity comes along. One thing I have noted is I prefer duration over intensity. Biking for a few hours is exercise, and I may or may not do that. Biking for a thousand miles....well, that was fun. I'd do something like that again, but I'm kind of booked with some hikes for the next few years.

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For the first two days I couldn't lift 5 lbs with my left arm.

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If that were me I'd have to hold it for a couple of days. :D

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For the first two days I couldn't lift 5 lbs with my left arm

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Well there goes your love life:eek:

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I prefer duration over intensity

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Too easy. Just too easy.

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The rock climbing is only bouldering for exercise on a climbing wall

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Bouldering's generally much harder work than roped climbing though. Far more intense and exhausting. Personally I prefer roped because there's a greater sense of achievement when you get to the top but a few interesting bouldering problems at the end of the night are great for burning that last ounce of energy.

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strictly hiking?

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I suddenly had this vision of a (completely new and not in anyway copied from another) TV program where they pair up vague celebrities with professional hikers .... maybe Shaggy could be a judge !!

Ultimately, even movies about hiking end up not being about hiking. It's not much of a spectator sport.

So, I was walking home from the store this morning with a pack full of groceries, and some woman asked if I needed money. Apparently, I'm a bit scruffy, but I didn't think I looked that bad.

Hmmm. Game show about hiking... "The Trudge"?

Ever had a large work table, weighing about 500 to 600 pounds, hit ya in the head while falling off a forklift? Don't you hate that?

Anyway, I had some X-rays done. My skull and spine is ok... numbness in my face has passed... and I don't see double! Woo-hoo!

I had a rock about the size of a football hit me in the head while I was climbing down a waterfall one time. It made a positive impression on me.

Gotta love the British sense of humor (humour)...

UK asks public to name $300M boat; "Boaty McBoatface" leads vote

To be sailed by Capt. wrong-way peach fuzz??

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Gotta love the British sense of humor (humour)...

UK asks public to name $300M boat; "Boaty McBoatface" leads vote

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Never ask the British Public to name something in an online poll unless your actually looking for daft answer!! :D

I particularly liked the Boatimus Prime suggestion.:lol:

I thought they were all pretty good. Every good ship needs a nickname as well as a name. That one may have one, by now.

I spent too much time bouncing around the North Atlantic in the early seventies to romanticize sailing. The USS Vigorous out of New London CT. and the USS Morgenthau out of New York NY.

I had nicknames for them too. None of them repeatable. ;)

God save the queen!

I guess you made the cutter, then.

You could say I coasted through my enlistment.

Get off my lawn you dang kids! (DadGumIt!)

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You could say I coasted through my enlistment.

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That would be a guarded comment.