Friday glee is scary, creepy, disturbing and weird

[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: Pamela Shanti Pack on her newest off-width route, Am I Evil?.

Comments

[emperor]

I have no glee today for reasons unconnected to climbing. That route looks brutal, though!

[rydra_wong]

I have no glee today for reasons unconnected to climbing.

If your un-glee is connected to the UK news of the day, it is shared. *sighs* Fucking hell.

[emperor]

Yeah, that. :'(

[wpadmirer]

It does look brutal!

And I hope you feel better. I read someone else posted that if the turn-out was under 60% there was a chance for a second vote? I hope that's true.

[rydra_wong]

It's not, and the turn-out was 72%.

[wpadmirer]

Well, fuckity-fuck-fuck-fuck.

[rydra_wong]

Yup, that's pretty much exactly my feeling about it.

[wpadmirer]

I continue to have no climbing news.

However, I love that video. Gorgeous and terrifying.

[superborb]

Over the last month or so (at the tail end of my injury), I started going lifting with my climbing buddies. This week, I was suddenly able to do some of the really overhung bouldering stuff that was rated 3 grades above what I used to be able to do.

It turns out arm strength is really important for overhangs.

[wpadmirer]

Cool! This gives me hope for when I do get to climb again!