Friday glee goes old school (yet again)

[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: The Edge: 100 Years of Scottish Mountaineering.

This is an excellent TV series from 1994, which some kind soul has put on YouTube as it's otherwise unavailable. Link goes to the first of six episodes.

Comments

[emperor]

I've booked a week in Provence later this year to go sport climbing. Very exciting :-)

[rydra_wong]

Very very exciting! \o/

So, are you now turning to the sport side? *g*

[emperor]

I am also hoping to arrange some weekends doing propertrad climbing, but those will be domestic so need a bit less forward planning :)

I've never done any sport climbing, so we'll see how it goes...

[rydra_wong]

You can always think of it as training for trad ...

As I understand it, threading the anchor is basically the one sport-specific skill you need to learn, and then you're sorted.

[wpadmirer]

That sounds wonderful!

[wpadmirer]

My partner is out of town for part of this week, and I'm out of town for part of next week, so climbing is going to be somewhat limited. We've got no times that synchronize. So I'll be on the auto-belay.