Friday glee is coffee-powered

[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: Lena Herrmann on the first female ascent of Battle Cat (8c+).

Comments

[ivy]

I've never made a 5.10. (I'll be 41 in a couple weeks.) Go you!

[wpadmirer]

LOL! Well, thank you. That makes me feel good. I had a partner who was 22 and we really pushed each other. I was doing 5.10s pretty regularly, and we were climbing three times a week. Then she moved to Washington, D.C. to go to graduate school - and then my rock gym went out of business. (sigh)

So after more than a year, I'm trying to get back to the climbing at least once a month. There are signs we may have a new gym sometime in 2018. I live in hope.

[ivy]

Oh, that sucks that your gym went out of business! I hope one does open near you. We have two here so I am spoiled for choice, but almost all my friends vastly prefer bouldering to top-roping and I'm the other way around. (I trust the rope. I'd rather take a fall on it than off it!)

[wpadmirer]

Two gyms! An embarrassment of riches!

I'm with you. I like the rope. I will take far more risks with the rope than without it, which makes me work harder.

Also, since I don't bounce as good as the young'uns, I think it's better for my health. (grin)