rydra_wong: Lisa Rands' chalky hands on the sloper on the route Gaia (climbing -- hands)
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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:

Steve McClure does Cromlech classics on the BMC International Trad Meet. Note: Steve Mac insisting he doesn't do trad is as much a Thing as Steve Mac insisting that he's weak.

Date: 2019-07-26 01:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wpadmirer
The good news is that the splint is working for reducing the inflammation in my hand! YAY! Now I just need a day to test out the hand in the rock gym. I can't do it this weekend because they're closed for a competition. But sometime soon!

Date: 2019-07-27 10:49 pm (UTC)
niqaeli: a pedestrian path lined by trees and shrouded in mist (the path less travelled)
From: [personal profile] niqaeli
Oh, that's awesome news! Yay for aids doing what they're actually meant to. \o/

Date: 2019-07-27 03:54 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] echan
I have baby callouses on a few of my fingers!

Date: 2019-07-27 10:48 pm (UTC)
niqaeli: cat with arizona flag in the background (Default)
From: [personal profile] niqaeli
oooooo, nice!

...let me know if, at some point, you have any use or desire for me to hold forth on how I curate my callous so that I never have hideous open wounds on the palms of my hands (and mostly never on the fingers). it's not nearly as critical for people who don't make their living doing massage, but I don't think anyone actually enjoys rips. :P

Date: 2019-07-29 04:33 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] seasonoftowers
I'd also love to hear about that!

Date: 2019-07-27 10:46 pm (UTC)
niqaeli: person suspended upside from a trapeze which is wrapped around them in a harness-like wrap, legs crossed around the ropes (trapeze)
From: [personal profile] niqaeli
This past week I got to inaugurate my new climbing shoes! They were great. I was exhausted because I'd had a performance the night before so I only climbed, like, three easy routes (one V0, a couple V1s), but my feet didn't hurt or go numb at all during or after and I didn't have any instances where I could feel poorly-fit shoes making me slip off smaller footholds the way I often had with rentals!

(aerial icon because I do not have any climbing icons, heh.)

Date: 2019-07-28 04:36 pm (UTC)
niqaeli: cat with arizona flag in the background (Default)
From: [personal profile] niqaeli
La Sportiva Tarantulace (39.5). I tried on basically every single style of shoe they had at the REI we were at, and several sizes of most of those, before settling on them. The leather body and the lacing work well for my extremely fucked up foot shape! (It wasn't that fucked up originally, but you spend years forcing your feet into shoes that don't fit -- because shoes that do fit don't actually exist in the Western style -- and your foot gets fucked up. *wry*)

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