Glee at the end of the year

[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 fun; 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: Joe Brown is getting a CBE!

If you haven't heard of Brown, Jim Perrin describes him as "the most significant figure in British climbing's post-war epoch, and perhaps the major character in the entire history of the sport." Also quoth Perrin: "Basically he's a tricky little fucker."

Hope everyone has a great New Year's Eve, and may the new year be full of climbing happiness for us all!

Comments

[emperor]

I was finally organised enough to take my rope to the wall yesterday (it's a PITA on a bike), and get some leading practice in. That's something to work on in 2011, although I did lead a 5+ up a bit of an overhang, so it could certainly have gone worse :)

[rydra_wong]

Yay overhangs!

[emperor]

I need to work on my overhang technique, it has to be said!

[wpadmirer]

Very cool about Joe Brown.

My glee is simply that I'm still climbing. I am getting stronger, and I'm still having fun.

I've got good climbing partners, and I climb pretty regularly. That's all anyone can ask!

[rydra_wong]

Wise climbing words!

[rydra_wong]

This week I have glee because the blister on my foot has healed enough for me to wear my lovely Miuras again, and with their assistance I climbed a new V4 (and have worked another in two halves).

It's been a good year's climbing -- frustrating in some ways, but I'm now back to where I was and past it, and much stronger than before I ended up spending five months in hospital.