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

[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