Climbing Mountains/Dating Women, are they one and the same?
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 5:10 am
I'm curious if any other man suffers from the same syndrome I'm currently experiencing (or women for that matter). I've noticed parallels in both my mountain climbing adventures and the women I've dated. When it comes to climbing, I develop an infatuation with a climb that I haven't done before, and it won't go away till I summit, yes I'm most interested in peaks with some sort of notoriety or mystique about them (we'll call them the 8's, 9's and 10's, aka Denali, Mont Blanc, Whitney, AKA the pretty girls), but do climb other lesser mountains from time to time (the 6's and 7's AKA the challenging local climbs) Anything 5 and under I don't bother with (ie hills, bridges,etc). But once I've climbed a mountain, especially one that I've been preparing for and thinking about for a long time, I lose my interest in it, not to say I won't climb it again, just that, its lost its luster to me.
When it comes to women, especially ones that are that rare personality and looks combination, they are all I can think about when we are dating, I actually can't think straight sometimes just thinking about that girl. I'll tell all my friends how great she is, I'll even look at her FB every so often to check out pictures of her. But once, how should I say, "summited" with her, its like a switch flips in my head, and while I'm still interested in her, its like the mountains I've already climbed, yeah I'll probably climb them again, but they've lost that luster they once had. I'm already planning ahead to the next one.
Now the really kicker is, just like whenever someone says "Yeah you climbed mountain "x", which is great, but have you done it during the winter, or done this route" it renews my interest in it again, simply for the challenge. When a girl I've dated losses interest in me, even though I was already thinking about other girls, the fact that she lost interest in me sort of challenges me again and shes all I can think about.
I don't know if I'm crazy or if I should post this in mountain medicine. By the way, this is a semi-joking/semi-serious thread, just trying to liven things up around here
When it comes to women, especially ones that are that rare personality and looks combination, they are all I can think about when we are dating, I actually can't think straight sometimes just thinking about that girl. I'll tell all my friends how great she is, I'll even look at her FB every so often to check out pictures of her. But once, how should I say, "summited" with her, its like a switch flips in my head, and while I'm still interested in her, its like the mountains I've already climbed, yeah I'll probably climb them again, but they've lost that luster they once had. I'm already planning ahead to the next one.
Now the really kicker is, just like whenever someone says "Yeah you climbed mountain "x", which is great, but have you done it during the winter, or done this route" it renews my interest in it again, simply for the challenge. When a girl I've dated losses interest in me, even though I was already thinking about other girls, the fact that she lost interest in me sort of challenges me again and shes all I can think about.
I don't know if I'm crazy or if I should post this in mountain medicine. By the way, this is a semi-joking/semi-serious thread, just trying to liven things up around here