Bob Kaylor bouldering above Yankee Boy Basin


Joy Kaylor climbing at Devil's Lake; Bob Kaylor watching.               photo:PG



Bob Kaylor at Devils Lake


Bob & Joy were part of the "first wave" of UCMC pioneers. In Bob's words:

I  started climbing in 1955(?) at Devils Lake because I missed out on a canoe trip with the Outing Club, and because Mike Fain worked in the lab where I worked.  Joy started about four years later because she wanted to get out of Chicago one Spring, and kept coming because she thought I had sexy legs. After moving to Maryland in 1961(?), Climbing trips were few.  We climbed the cable route on Long's one summer when our boys were 7 and 9.  Later we back-packed into the San Juans to duplicate the famous 1960 trip, but were kept out of No-name basin because of snow. We hiked and back-packed parts of the Appalachain trail through NC, VA, MD, and PA.  We also hiked most of the trails in Shenandoah National park.  By the late 1960s, my acrophobia was so bad I had trouble looking out of a second story window, so climbing was out!  In the late 1970s, Joy went back to college and earned a BS and MS in nursing, became a Nurse Practitioner and has since worked mainly in college health clincs since then.
After retiring and moving to Colorado in 1988, we started skiing again, hiking, back-packing, and bicycling.  We have taken bike tours in Germany, Ireland, Wales, England, and Scotland.  In 1996 we started bicycle racing - Joy is very good, I'm average.  Joy also started throwing about the same time - in 2003 she won the USATF National Masters Weight Pentathlon in her age group.  She is now spending most of her time with a senior womans basketball team.
Bob     


Climbing Photos of Bob Kaylor   
Climbing Photos of Joy Kaylor