Glee time!

[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 this week's glee: Goats: still more hardcore than you. (You have to click to enlarge the photo, but it'll be kind of obvious which one.)

Comments

[auntysarah]

in the week I found an 8 metre 5+ lead at The Castle with an overhang of doom, and upon climbing found it to be a bit of a sandbag. Being a good girl and not wanting to clip too early, I waited until the third clip was below my shoulder before trying to clip it, at which point I discovered I couldn't.

I could have carried on climbing to the 4th clip, but that was well into decking territory. I let my belayer know I was having trouble, and started to down climb - not easy on a monster overhang where I can't see the holds for my feet.

So naturally I fell, and stopped with my raised feet about 30cm off the floor. It was a busy night, there are a bunch of top rope lines nearby. The looks on the top rope belayers' faces after seeing me fall 5ish metres and stop just off the deck was something to behold.

Yesterday I went back and despite my apprehension, I climbed the bugger, which was still tougher than a 5+ had any right to be (harder than both of the 6a leads either side of it).

[rydra_wong]

Eeep! But rock on for going back and getting the bastard.