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Friday glee has snowballs
Apr. 5th, 2013 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rydra_wongThe 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: yesterday, Ben Bransby takes advantage of the weather to make what is possibly the second ascent of Superstition (E8?). This is apparently one of the very few routes that Team America failed to repeat during their gritstone rampage in 2008. It was first climbed as a route, but Bransby did it as a "snowball" -- a highball protected by a platform of snow and bouldering mats.
"Snowballing" got started in the Peak District in 2010, and the drifts seem to be as deep this year; anyone who's interested in this particular idiosyncratic regional development can follow the reports (and photos and videos) as they come in at this UKB thread.
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: yesterday, Ben Bransby takes advantage of the weather to make what is possibly the second ascent of Superstition (E8?). This is apparently one of the very few routes that Team America failed to repeat during their gritstone rampage in 2008. It was first climbed as a route, but Bransby did it as a "snowball" -- a highball protected by a platform of snow and bouldering mats.
"Snowballing" got started in the Peak District in 2010, and the drifts seem to be as deep this year; anyone who's interested in this particular idiosyncratic regional development can follow the reports (and photos and videos) as they come in at this UKB thread.
