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.

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To get the ball rolling

[rydra_wong]

My glee: weather and brain permitting, I might finally make it out onto some actual rock this weekend.

(Also, I'm working on a V4 roof problem which has some exceedingly badass moves. I still haven't been able to link it, but every time I do a sequence it makes me feel like a superhero.)

[astridv]

I have a whole list of youtube vids bookmarked (just waiting for the time to put together a post). This is one of my favorites: Jyati Raju Free (Solo) Climbing . This guy is incredible.

[wpadmirer]

I've been working an extreme overhang top rope route (5.7)in my gym. I'd realized that I was kind of psyching myself out when I hit the biggest part of the overhang where I am essentially parallel to the ground and 40 feet up in the air.

Today I got further up the route than ever before and only fell off because I went for a hold that simply won't work for me. But I was unphased by my position on the wall! YAY! I figure next time I'll get it.

[pellucid]

I confess I haven't been too gleeful about climbing lately because of some ongoing mysterious medical issues that make me often not able to go and not particularly strong when I do. But today I went despite feeling less than 100%, and I only bouldered for about 45 minutes and was vaguely pathetic, but I went, and, well, I suspect that needs to be my benchmark just at the moment. Therefore, in honour of the new benchmark, woot!

[dira]

I went climbing for the second time today! I just messed around on the bouldering wall and made a couple of tries each on a couple of top-rope routes, but I decided it's not wimping out to leave before I can't actually work my fingers anymore. :)

[be_themoon]

I get to climb for 4 hours or more this Sunday!

[juliet]

Went bouldering before work twice! Despite the fact that on one of those occasions, the fixie seat post disintegrated halfway up the road (went home, got other bike, went to gym) and on the other, I got a puncture halfway there (it was slow enough to ride to the Arch, then fix it by the front desk once I was done climbing...). Hurrah.

Also I made it all the way up the V2 on the prow that I've been working on since last week! And got very slightly further on another V2 (on the wave bit) and that damn V1 out by the front. Yay.