Friday glee supposedly does this for fun

[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, thanks to emperor: Shauna Coxsey tries crack climbing with Pete Whittaker (Ramshaw? He is a cruel man).

Comments

[emperor]

I had one of those sessions where you fall off everything but it's fun anyway :)

[ivy]

Haha, I did too. I tried a 5.11- out of arrant overweening "who knows?". It did not work out for me but it was still highly entertaining. Go bravery to try!

[wpadmirer]

YAY!for bravery and trying!

[wpadmirer]

Climbing is always better than not climbing, no matter how well you do it!

[wpadmirer]

I climbed this week! I'm in NYC and I met up with and friend who used to work in the rock gym in Gainesville, back in the days of yore. I climbed 6 routes and attempted a 7th. Didn't finish it. I'd had four hours of sleep, traveled all day and was not at my best, but I had a blast.

The gym is Brooklyn Boulders Queensbridge. It's beautiful, with bouldering, a few autobelays, lots of top roping, a yoga studio and a regular gym.

The only weird thing is the walls are slick. They're varnished wood, and so you can't smear. It's the holds or nothing. That took some getting used to!

But it was great to see my friend and catch up on his life and get some climbing in. I'd almost forgotten how to tie a figure 8!