Friday glee has gritstone
Jan. 28th, 2011 09:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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disobey_gravityThe 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: a gorgeous little vid of Conan The Librarian, a classic V4 on Peak gritstone. For reasons which my comment will make clear.
N.B. Feel free to post your glee in the comm on any day of the week. The Friday post is just to get the ball rolling.
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: a gorgeous little vid of Conan The Librarian, a classic V4 on Peak gritstone. For reasons which my comment will make clear.
N.B. Feel free to post your glee in the comm on any day of the week. The Friday post is just to get the ball rolling.
Re: SO MUCH GLEE
Date: 2011-01-28 11:31 am (UTC)Yeah, but you get all that amazing slate and rhyolite! *g* I really need to climb in Wales at some point too.
The gritstone is freaky-wonderful stuff, though. The friction is so extreme I was using slopers and smears that I'd never have dreamt of being able to stick to on any other type of rock/plastic/concrete I've experienced.
Which is good, because you don't really get anything except slopers and smears. Well, and hand-jams, I gather, but I didn't venture into those arcane mysteries this time.
It feels like a whole new climbing style in some ways.
Re: SO MUCH GLEE
Date: 2011-01-28 12:10 pm (UTC)