# I celebrated my 80th birthday on top of a mountain **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438 "2007-08-13T15:05:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/21 "2007-08-13T21:06:59Z")
Run with the bulls in Pamploma? A guy like this should have sex with the bulls in Pamploma! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/22 "2007-08-13T21:20:15Z")
Happy Birthday, Geoff! Many more! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/23 "2007-08-13T22:08:06Z")
Happy birthday! My granddad walked the entire Milford Sound trek when he was 82. For your 90th I suggest you try and beat his time! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/24 "2007-08-13T23:29:31Z")
[QUOTE=Brynda] Run with the bulls in Pamploma? A guy like this should have sex with the bulls in Pamploma! [/QUOTE] I was going to suggest that he make the bulls run **from him** , and this just might be the threat to make that work. :eek: Seriously, man, that’s an excellent birthday. My grandfather was riding bicycles with his teenage and younger grandkids into his late 80s at least, and I hope your 90th birthday is even better than the 80th. How about hang-gliding off Mt. Haleakala on the island of Maui? I know a 60-something guy who did it, so if you can smoke some 50-something kids mountain-climbing, maybe this is your next adventure? ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/25 "2007-08-14T00:12:43Z")
Happy Birthday, Geoff! Climbing a mountain one day, telling the world about it on the Net the next. Your are a great inspiration for aging dynamically. Any photos to share? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/26 "2007-08-14T01:43:48Z")
Happy Birthday, **KlondikeGeoff**! I hope I can climb a mountain when I’m 80! ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/27 "2007-08-14T01:44:20Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] Happy Birthday, Geoff! Climbing a mountain one day, telling the world about it on the Net the next. Your are a great inspiration for aging dynamically. Any photos to share? [/QUOTE] Well, **elelle** , I couldn’t find my high school graduation picture anywhere, so I guess you’ll have to take a peek at the ooooold geezer on the summit. The whole gang consists of my three kids, my brother and a friend or twol I’m the 4th from the left [here.](http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c86/KlondikeGeoff/?action=view¤t=P1000262.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/28 "2007-08-14T02:00:06Z")
Damn, you don’t even look 80! ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/29 "2007-08-14T02:04:17Z")
I agree. You look good! Happy 80th! ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/30 "2007-08-14T02:27:48Z")
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder] Damn, you don’t even look 80! [/QUOTE] Hell, he doesn’t even look 60. Dammit. I guess I’ll have to find a mountain around here. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/31 "2007-08-14T02:30:25Z")
[QUOTE=KlondikeGeoff] :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Obviously you are young! I mean, even with Viagara…? 😃 [/QUOTE] I couldn’t climb a mountain and it may be ten years before I get laid again. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/32 "2007-08-14T02:38:15Z")
[QUOTE=KlondikeGeoff] As I climb it almost every day in the 100 degree heat, it did not bother me, but it sort of wore out the youngsters (in their 50s). [/QUOTE] Let me say on behalf of us youngsters, whadderya nuts?! It’s 102 degrees out there. (I live in the desert myself but then I sat around all day like a sensible 50 year old, in the air conditioning, with my feet up, surfing the Dope.) Happy Birthday, **KlondikeGeoff** and many happy returns. You seriously put me to shame. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/33 "2007-08-14T03:16:46Z")
Good for you! If I can’t hike when I’m 80, I’ll be a miserable old man. I have to add my own note of caution, though. Don’t overdo it. There’s a fine line between being active and being foolish. (if you’ll deign to take the advice of a 53-year-old whippersnapper) Over on another forum that I visit, a member had an ongoing thread about their journey of losing weight and returning to a healthy lifestyle. One day after proudly posting about a long bike ride in hot weather, he died of a heart attack. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/34 "2007-08-14T07:28:03Z")
Many happy returns indeed. Just remember that you’re only 50 in base 16. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/35 "2007-08-14T07:50:38Z")
For my old man’s 80th we treated him to a flight in a Tiger Moth. He’d soloed in one as a RAF trainee sixty years previously. He was less than sprightly walking out to the plane - it’s safe to say his mountain-climbing days are behind him - but they got him into the cockpit and I understand the instructor let him have the stick for most of the time they were up there. 🙂 I’m sure if you asked one of the winged Dopers nicely they’d set you up with something of the sort for 2017. Happy birthday KG, you kick major ass. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/36 "2007-08-14T09:19:26Z")
Well…your arrival in Las Vegas would be reason enough to hold yet another DopeFest here! Granted, it might be a tad warm, but you sound like you could handle it, although we would have to get strippers to prove it - and pictures of the event to verify the fact…so start saving those dollar bills! Happy Birthday - and by the way, my aunt just turned 89 and she is a kick and a half, so if you are into older women, have I got a babe for you! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/37 "2007-08-14T09:44:37Z")
[QUOTE=Dorjän] If you haven’t tried it yet, take up skydiving for your 90th 🙂 And not a sissyfied tandem jump either, take the accelerated freefall course or do a static-line jump! [/QUOTE] How about that for his 85th and some, much more sedate, water diving for his 90th? None of that sissy snorkeling… bottles and all. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/38 "2007-08-14T13:19:43Z")
You are a kelluva guy, **KlondikeGeoff**. Even the lynx in the picture next to yours looks afraid of you! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/39 "2007-08-14T13:34:07Z")
Happy Birthday, **KlondikeGeoff**. I want to be like you when I grow up. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-celebrated-my-80th-birthday-on-top-of-a-mountain/415438/40 "2007-08-14T18:52:16Z")
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