Friday glee celebrates European climbing (political overtones who me?)

[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: Anak Verhoeven crushes 8c+ (a first female ascent of that route) and 8c+/9a? (warning: extreme drop knees that make my ligaments hurt to watch).

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Cool! What was it like?

[emperor]

It's along a riverbank, a bit overgrown now (I think the guidebook says it sees less traffic than it used it). The grades felt a bit stiff, and the routes were a bit polished. But it was a stinking hot day, so maybe we were just getting cooked...