Friday glee has a Pleasure Box

[rydra_wong]

Climbing? Training? Locked down? Opening up? Vaccinated? Half-vaccinated? Vaccine FOMO? Obsessing about variants?

Video: Pete Whittaker on a 5.13 horizontal squeeze chimney.

Also, for anyone who'd like to watch Touching The Void, this discount code should get you 20% off on-demand tickets: TTVFRIEND66

On demand until the 8th, captioned and audio-described versions available until the 13th (I think because they went up later).

Comments

[seasonoftowers]

Got (almost venomlessly) bitten by a viper last weekend, and pumped full of so much cortisol my quad tendinitis disappeared, as a side effect. So this week I'm back climbing - finally did an (indoors) route that had been bamboozling me for a month, and today a friend's going to show me how to lead climb :)

[rydra_wong]

Yay no tendinitis! Also yay learning to lead climb, it's great, have fun! \o/

[wpadmirer]

I went climbing on Wednesday after work with a guy I know from Facebook. He was a nice guy, and he belayed well, but he doesn't like climbing. So he offered to belay me once a month using my one monthly guest pass. I think not.

But I did get to climb, so I'm counting that as a good day.

[rydra_wong]

I got to spend two days getting beaten up by ancient HVD sandbags at Burbage South! Now very grazed and bruised but cheerful.

[juliet]

yay! that sounds awesome :)

[emperor]

Excellent :)
[I'm always suspicious of routes with grades like HVD...]

[rydra_wong]

Oh yes, HVD is a grade of special evil. My climbing partner on Weds leads into the low E-grades and fell off while seconding me up a HVD (in his approach shoes, admittedly). We agreed that they're much worse than the other grades.

And it's not that the grade is wrong, they're just ... HVD.

(Especially at Burbage South. HVDs at Burbage South are Hard and Very Difficult.)

[hermionesviolin]

I climbed on Tuesday for the first time since March, 2020, and was able to get back into it a lot more quickly/easily than I had expected after such a long break.

I had been climbing 5.10s before things shut down. This Tuesday, I started with a 5.6 and worked my way up to two 5.9s by the end of our 90-minute session.

I didn't do any overhangs or tall walls, but to be doing ~easy 5.9s after a ~16-month break felt good.

[juliet]

Climbed a V2 for the first time in a long time! (Possibly for the first time since the Arch regraded everything? I might have managed a couple pre-lockdown but I was only climbing v intermittently anyway for various reasons.) It was slabby & played into my strong points but still, I was very pleased with myself. Got further up a couple of tricky V1s I am working on, as well.

[emperor]

*\o/*

[emperor]

Still no climbing for me, though my stupid finger injury does seem to be getting better slowly. And I've moved my 2nd vaccine dose forward 4 weeks :-)