Friday glee goes roof-shuffling

[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: the Wideboyz in Canyonlands.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

I have glee because I got back on the Moonboard (after a couple of months abstaining from it because of a tweaky finger). The Moonboard is my mean friend; it is everything I am worst at as a climber rolled up into one steep board. I love it so.

[language_escapes]

We went to the gym a few days this week, and I've begun trying some of the simpler routes on the taller walls. I've largely been working on 5.7s on the 25ft wall, but I moved over and tried a 5.6 on a 45ft wall. I'm actually terribly afraid of heights and have to work really hard to control my nerves when climbing, so 45ft walls are... intimidating. But I nearly made it! I figure that will be my stamina building project, and "control the panic" project, for the time being.

[wpadmirer]

No climbing this week. Even though I ended up with Friday off, I am so incredibly tired from the week that I decided it wouldn't be wise to try to do it.

Plus I'm really struggling with pain in my right hand. The arthritis in my thumb seems much worse this week. (sigh) So I have called the hand doc and will see him in a week.

[emperor]

Despite feeling a bit poo, I went out climbing this week, and it was Just The Ticket. Also, my toes are in a bit of a bad way, but I found the old pair of 5.10 spires I bought in the wrong size (46 rather than the 44.5 my other spires are), and they were quite comfy... I'm now trying to get hold of my current shoes (Boreal Silex) half a size larger...

[emperor]

Also, those roof cracks look horrible! Tom's leggings, though, were excellent :)

[echan]

I went climbing with new shoes, first non-rental shoes, and WOAH. So many footholds that were tenuous before are rock solid with these shoes.