Friday glee has the predictable follow-up
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disobey_gravityThe 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, thanks toexecutrix: TIME magazine: Trump Boasted That His Border Wall Was 'Virtually Impenetrable.' Then an 8-Year-Old Girl Climbed a Replica
Current speed record is 40 seconds, but I expect that to drop rapidly.
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, thanks to
executrix: TIME magazine: Trump Boasted That His Border Wall Was 'Virtually Impenetrable.' Then an 8-Year-Old Girl Climbed a ReplicaCurrent speed record is 40 seconds, but I expect that to drop rapidly.
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Date: 2019-10-11 10:37 am (UTC)For the first time in a while, I felt like competent climbing happened this week (I made it up two 6B routes, albeit not cleanly) - I think getting back into regular climbing after a disrupted summer is helping :)
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Date: 2019-10-11 10:55 am (UTC)Last weekend I went climbing. Still haven't sent the overhang 5.9. However, I did flash a 5.8, send another 5.8 and just for the hell of it climbed the 5.7 overhang after watching two guys fail repeatedly at climbing it.
It's one of the joys I have at 65 (I'll be 66 next week), successfully climbing a route that a 20-something guy fails on.
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Date: 2019-10-11 01:52 pm (UTC)//CACKLES
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Date: 2019-10-12 08:37 am (UTC)There were lots of frost-bedecked plants, and some surprisingly brave mountain goats - got to walk 10 meters behind a pack of them for a few minutes.
I also scrambled down the same sort of valley as paragraph 1 only much bigger (it has a small river coming out of the bottom). 600m altitude difference (as opposed to ~150 for the upwards one) and really unstable ground, so I had the mother of all sore stabilization muscles at the end of it.
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Date: 2019-10-12 09:08 am (UTC)A gully? Or a ghyll if it's got a stream/river in it, maybe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gully
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_(ravine)
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Date: 2019-10-13 05:05 pm (UTC)