Friday glee admires the tights

[rydra_wong]

Climbing? Training? Locked down? Vaccinated? Volunteering? Dreaming of freedom?

Video: Margo Hayes cruises some classic highballs in Joe's Valley.

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[emperor]

Hoping I'll get vaccinated some day...

Hardcore climbs there, and they are excellent tights!

[seasonoftowers]

Spent half a week in a mountaineering class and my god, it's a whole new language to talk to heights into. 8h practice + 4-6h of theory a day and it was too little. A few peak moments:
* after learning how to crampons & ice axe, came the time for short rope. There aren't really any glaciers around Romania, though, so we practiced by going upslope. You're not supposed to rope up for slopes like that though, since if 1 person loses their balance they'll likely drag everyone with them. So how can a teacher make sure we don't remember the wrong lesson? As we were carefully descending a 40deg rather powdery slope, half of us (including me) barely trusting our crampons, I hear a shout and see our teacher barreling past me, gigantic grin on his face. Scattered us like Skittles, which also had the side effect of making us lose all fear of slopes.

First rappel. Actually falling over on the lip of it and having the third hand I had just tied stop my fall. First actually good rappel. Rappelling sans security device, on a HMS knot and a carabiner. Being shown how2 Dulfer that night.

Climbing an M2 on technical ice axes. Holy shit but do those mantis arms fucking bite, I thought it'd be bloody murder but I'd have likely found it harder with bare hands on bare rock. Mixed ice/rock/dirt/grass surfaces resemble nothing as much as highly technical Swiss postrock bands, btw.

Losing my avalanche victims the first time around. Finding them both by the stroke of the seventh minute the second.

A history-of-mountaineering-at-home-and-abroad lesson that lasted until 1am and that finally made me understand why shit's fucked over here.

Tying a double figure 8 follow through with my eyes closed and 2 beers in my system. Not yet up to the full "in the dark, with gloves, while dead tired and hypothermic" standard, but I'll get there.

Rydra, please delete this paragraph if advertising isn't allowed here, but if it's allowed and any of y'all ever have anything mountain or climbing related to do in Romania, I heavily recommend http://rucksack.ro/contact/ . Dude's a treasure trove of skill and knowledge.