Friday glee is not going to make any "moon" puns

[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: shortly before his 49th birthday, Ben Moon climbed Rainshadow, his second 9a (since his route Hubble -- considered at the time the world's first 8c+ -- is now widely thought to be 9a).

Here's an interview with him about it.

And here's some footage of Steve McClure on Rainshadow.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

I have glee because I spent the weekend in North Wales enjoying the sunshine. I climbed at two crags I'd not been to before, did the longest pitch I've ever done, the hardest multi-pitch I've ever swung leads on, and got to use my tricam.

[emperor]

I've had a great couple of weeks in climbing :)

Last week was spent in Provence, sport-climbing on limestone. Despite it being baking hot, and there being a lot of sandbags, I had a really good trip, and climbed a load of routes (30 ascents, 20 ticks). Any my fingertips and feet have almost recovered now :)

And then to cap it all, this week I got my project route at Harlow, which is my first F7a :-)

[cofax7]

I think I might have defeated my golfers/climbers elbow, and will text my climbing partner to meet me at the gym tonight...

[wpadmirer]

My climbing partner is out of town and the gym's auto-belays are all down being serviced. So it appears there will be no climbing for me. SUCKAGE.