Friday glee has its own tag

[rydra_wong]

The Friday post of glee is where you get to tell us about your climbing-related happiness this week.

It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had fun; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big. Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.

N.B. Please feel free to post your glee on any day of the week; the Friday glee is just to get the ball rolling.

To enhance this week's glee: Mina Leslie-Wujastyk on the first female ascent of Mecca Extension, 8c, and giving an interview about it on UKC here.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I climbed last weekend on the auto-belay and with my partner. It was wonderful. Going climbing again tomorrow. I wanted to get some time in this week, but I got a flu shot and had the sorest deltoid in history. Could barely lift my arm for two days. So that shot that. Oh well...there's always next week.

Also, the 5.10 Rogues are the BEST shoes I've ever owned.

[rydra_wong]

Also, the 5.10 Rogues are the BEST shoes I've ever owned.

Awesome! It's so great when you find shoes that work perfectly for your needs. I tend to stockpile extra pairs just in case they get discontinued.

[wpadmirer]

I can understand that! My gym quit carrying La Sportivas, and I loved those. But I have to say I'm very happy with the 5.10s. It was a struggle to find a size I could wear comfortably, because I've got one foot that's really a mess (formerly broken toes that are really crooked and arthritis), but now that I finally found the size, it's great!

[emperor]

8c! I can't imagine climbing anything nearly that hard, ever!

Despite the dismal weather last week (and overnight rain), we headed to the Peak on Saturday, to Birchen Edge. It was pretty quiet, and we had a great day (dispite my failing to thrutch up Left Ladder Chimney, which was green and a bit wet). I think my friends found grit less to their taste than rock with real holds on ;-) 7 ticks in the logbook (plus the failure).

[naath]

Yay for real rock! I quite liked the grit, good for thrutching... my favorite thing!

Sad not to wiggle through the Telescope Tunnel though, silly tiny squirmy thing.

[wpadmirer]

I admire you for climbing in the wet. I will admit that I'm simply not up for that!

[rydra_wong]

I think it's affected by nationality -- remember, we have British weather to contend with, so even on a trip with "good" weather, there's usually a fair bit of sheltering under overhangs and then patting the rock hopefully to see if it's dry enough to climb on.

[wpadmirer]

That makes good sense.

In the USA it varies SO wildly because we're big. In Florida, there's an outdoor wall that you have to be careful climbing because the holds get so hot, you can literally blister your hands.

In Oregon and Washington, it's wet except in the summer. (And sometimes then.)

Arizona and New Mexico, dangerously hot and dry.

We get a little bit of everything.

[rydra_wong]

I think my friends found grit less to their taste than rock with real holds on ;-)

It's cheating when the rock has actual holds on! *g*