OT: Retired PSU prof George Etzweiler, 97, makes another 7.6 mile run to the top of Mt. Washington

[mn78psu83]

LINK: George Etzweiler does it again.

Despite getting up in age, Etzweiler hasn’t let anything slow him down. He had to make a trip to Mount Nittany Medical Center for sutures last weekend when he got his finger caught in an elevator door while trying make a repair. And he was also bothered Saturday by a sore hip and the heat from the sun above the tree line, according to his daughter, Shirley Fye.

“Those all made it a harder run this year and he’s a year older at 97,” she said. “So he was pretty tired after the run.”

No words.

 

[WDLion]

LINK: George Etzweiler does it again.

Despite getting up in age, Etzweiler hasn’t let anything slow him down. He had to make a trip to Mount Nittany Medical Center for sutures last weekend when he got his finger caught in an elevator door while trying make a repair. And he was also bothered Saturday by a sore hip and the heat from the sun above the tree line, according to his daughter, Shirley Fye.

“Those all made it a harder run this year and he’s a year older at 97,” she said. “So he was pretty tired after the run.”

No words.

Impressive. Been to the summit three times. Drove the road twice and once on the cog railroad.

 

[mn78psu83]

He is a retired PSU Electrical Engineering professor. Maybe some of the board members had him for class?

 

[BobPSU92]

New Hampshire? This is Mt. Washington:

Let's see him climb this (without the use of an incline).

 

[Colorado Man]

I have hiked to the summit of Mt. Washington at 1/3 his age (with full backpack) and it almost killed me. In Tuckerman's Ravine there is a large boulder with a plaque that says under this rock lies ______.

 

[john4psu]

He's 97 and he ran 7.6 miles to the top of Mt. Washington?

Can't he get someone to drive him there?

Uber? Lyft? Call a cab!

 

[FHSPSU67]

He is a retired PSU Electrical Engineering professor. Maybe some of the board members had him for class?

I remember him although I never had him as a prof. I am an EE from the class of 1967

 

[artsandletters]

LINK: George Etzweiler does it again.

Despite getting up in age, Etzweiler hasn’t let anything slow him down. He had to make a trip to Mount Nittany Medical Center for sutures last weekend when he got his finger caught in an elevator door while trying make a repair. And he was also bothered Saturday by a sore hip and the heat from the sun above the tree line, according to his daughter, Shirley Fye.

“Those all made it a harder run this year and he’s a year older at 97,” she said. “So he was pretty tired after the run.”

No words.

"No words"

Something that has never crossed Bushwood's mind.

 

[Peetz Pool Boy]

He is a retired PSU Electrical Engineering professor. Maybe some of the board members had him for class?

The name sounds really familiar. I need to go research if he was my instructor for EE101 (or whatever the course number was for the obligatory EE Course for non-EE's).

The only thing I remember from that course, which I didn't really like but surprisingly did well in, was that there was a PSU football player in my class (a punter I believe, who had his foot in a cast and needed to keep it elevated for the first 3-4 weeks of the class).

 

[coveydidnt]

He is a retired PSU Electrical Engineering professor. Maybe some of the board members had him for class?

I would imagine that is his first years of teaching EE the labs involved flying a kite & a key & a thunderstorm.

 

[throw2oj]

New Hampshire? This is Mt. Washington:

Let's see him climb this (without the use of an incline).

Mt Washington road race is that more than ten times over.

 

[BobPSU92]

Mt Washington road race is that more than ten times over.

Nevertheless, I rode up the Duquense incline in 2012 and awarded myself the "I CLIMBED MT. WASHINGTON" bumper sticker. It's on my car. I thought this is what they meant.