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

[emperor]

Ooh, Orgon! I've climbed there (not 8c+, I should add ;-)

[wpadmirer]

Pat made me a tool for maintaining grip strength and callouses. It's a take on the old broomstick with a roped weight. It's pvc covered with a fine grit sandpaper with a rope and a weight. And it's thicker - takes my whole hand grip to turn it.

But it is giving me back my callouses and working my forearms hard. I may not be climbing, but I will be ready when I can!

Last weekend we went to Hart Springs here in Florida. There was a company there with a portable wall. Unfortunately I did not discover this until I had been there for over two hours in the sun and heat, and had only eaten a Clif bar. So I did not climb well. But OH! The joy of being on a wall! (Also I had to climb barefoot. That didn't work well for me at all!) (grin)