Friday glee has slaaaaaabs

[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: Caff goes to La Pedriza.

And since this is the first post of glee of the New Year: anyone got any goals for the year they'd like to share? Climbing-related resolutions?

Comments

[sara]

I didn't climb-climb anything this week, but I did check out a new bouldering gym in Eugene with my daughter and niece (we will have to go back when our schedules are more amenable) and my kids and I had some very good snowshoe hikes up toward Mount Rainier over New Year's.

I think my climbing-related goal for this year is to get over to the climbing gym and take a top-roping class. I've been bouldering at the gym at the college, and while that's great fun there's nobody there to teach rope stuff. Also, continue to hangboard regularly.

[rydra_wong]

Yay new gym and hikes! Learning roped stuff definitely gives you some extra options, and I found that starting as a boulderer made it much much easier for me to transition from top-roping to leading (when I wanted to) than it is for many people who start out top-roping as their first form of climbing -- when I fall off, I expect to go somewhere!

[sara]

Yeah, I used to have a terrible inability to cope with heights but I have to climb a lot of stuff on the job and it's made that easier for me.

On the job I definitely go somewhere if I fall off. Usually into a creek. Sometimes the creek is frozen.

[rydra_wong]

What's your job, if you don't mind my asking/are happy to disclose on the internet?

[sara]

*cough* Not something I can discuss in public.

[rydra_wong]

No worries! I know lots of people can't discuss their jobs in public/online because of reasons. I was just curious as to what involved falling into frozen creeks. *g*

Anyway, expecting to go somewhere if you fall off definitely helps with transitioning from top-roping to leading, if that's something you want to do.