Friday post of glee

[rydra_wong]

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 a good time; 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.

To enhance the glee this week: free climbing documentaries! Messner (about the great mountaineer) and Beyond Gravity (featuring Lynn Hill and baby!Katie Brown, among others) can be watched online at Snag Films.

Comments

Re: To get the ball rolling

[juliet]

(OOI="out of interest"?)

yep!

I saw someone staring at that one this morning. Then he carefully brushed all the spare chalk off the hole. Then he stared at it a bit more :)

I spent my half hour failing to climb assorted V2s. Dammit.

Re: To get the ball rolling

[rydra_wong]

But failing to climb assorted V2s leads sooner or later to climbing V2s! It is an essential part of the process!

Btw, I rec having a go at the pale blue V2 on the wave wall, if you haven't already. I found it friendlier than the V2 on the prow which you've done (especially if you know that the small round blobby volume is in).

Re: To get the ball rolling

[juliet]

I had a bit of a go at that last week but I think got stuck?

Today I was suffering from having climbed yesterday as well & thus ARMS FALLING OFF.

(Also I cannot AT ALL work out the white V2 on the wall on the non-wave side from the prow.) (but I did sort-of do the blue bridgey V2 in the back left corner of that side)

Re: To get the ball rolling

[rydra_wong]

Also I cannot AT ALL work out the white V2 on the wall on the non-wave side from the prow.

That one is weird and tricky, I seem to recall. Lots of grabbing the arete.

Yay for the blue bridgey one!