Friday glee is giggling

[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: some ascents of the infamous Giggling Crack. Content warning for distant shots of post-offwidth vomiting.

Comments

[emperor]

Despite a continuing-to-be-unhappy achilles, I actually got climbing this week, and there were new routes :)

[wpadmirer]

Nice! I'm glad you can do some climbing, even with the unhappy achilles!

[wpadmirer]

I did not climb, but I did box one day and then last night went to see CREED II with my boxing coach, his family, Pat and a couple of other people from the boxing club. That was fun.

[hermionesviolin]

On Tuesday. I tried a new new tall orange 5.10C. A bunch of the beginning moves I definitely didn't do the way you're "supposed" to because I couldn't, but I made my way up those holds without rainbowing. I had to have my belay partner explain to me what the move was a couple times later on, and I definitely struggled, but I only rainbowed a few times near the top where I was tiring and really wanted/needed an additional foothold (and they were pretty small footholds, as the adjacent routes were a 5.12A and a 5.12C).

[I mostly climb at the 5.9/5.10A level, for context.]

That was my second climb of the night and it definitely wore me out (a familiar 5.10A and a familiar 5.9 that I did afterward felt harder than usual) but I finished out the night with the 5.10C that I've successfully done a bunch of times, and that actually felt easier than usual. Such a good route -- I'll miss that one when the reset the wall :(

[cofax7]

I was at the gym today, along with every extended family member of every other climber in the East Bay (because it was raining and nobody could go on their post-Thanksgiving hike? I dunno). And there was a woman struggling up a 5.10C next to me, with her 15-yo son belaying and encouraging her.

She finally made it, and when she got down it became clear that it was her very first day climbing! And he'd sent her up a 5.10c! I was amazed, but she did it, and wasn't apparently too horrified. It was pretty funny.

[ivy]

...I am in the East Bay right now. What gym was this? (I am now kind of tempted to go try it, hahaha. I normally climb 5.9 to 5.10a, but maybe it's my day!)

[cofax7]

Ironworks in Berkeley. It was crazy busy yesterday, but maybe the crowds will ease up