Friday glee wrestles the cheesegrater

[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: Chris Burkard is leading his best offwidth life. With bonus Honnold!

Comments

[ivy]

Hahaha, I died at the cheese grater, particularly after my experience of a couple weeks ago. Glad it wasn't just me! Also I AM BUYING SOME FREAKING TAPE.

[wpadmirer]

Yeah, I don't see how you could do off-width without tape!

[rydra_wong]

Ha, in my experience offwidths require LESS tape because your hands are less likely to be the body parts being mangled! Though I haven't got into anything requiring the complicated double-hand/hand-fist stacks yet.

Long sleeves and ankle protectors are the most important.

(And remembering to take my helmet off. I cracked up at the helmet toss in the video because I did that very thing out of an offwidth yesterday.)

[rydra_wong]

YAY TAPE. Also if you tape up your hands you immediately feel that much cooler, in a pseudo-boxing sort of way.