Friday glee is out on the sandstone

[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: A Day at High Rocks, including the fourth ascent of the ridiculously-hard Chimaera. Note that this is British southern sandstone; the rock is too fragile to place protection, so top-roping qualifies as a valid ascent.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

On Tuesday I managed to climb a 5.8 route I'd been struggling with. It had a high left foot move that I couldn't make. So I was working on it when my climbing partner, Kim, suggested I see if I couldn't change my hand position and go up with my right foot. By Golly! It worked! I finished the route.

So I've now conquered several hard 5.8s lately. And next weekend I'm doing my first outdoor climbing trip. EEEK!

[rydra_wong]

Eeek but also yay! Where are you going to?

[wpadmirer]

Foster Falls, which is in Tennessee. I'm going with a group of experienced climbers. One of my partners has climbed there before - Fred. But Kim and I will be climbing outside for the first time. We're both excited and scared!

[rydra_wong]

I hope you have an awesome time! Going with a group sounds ideal.

The indoors-outdoors transition can feel weird initially (I'm very new to it myself), but in my experience it's mostly about re-setting your brain so that it starts reading the rock the way it would read an indoor problem. Once you get over the brain hiccups, things start to feel more comfortable again. *g*

[rydra_wong]

I have glee because I have a new project to work on, and because it involves getting round a power move with a bizarro twisty thing which no-one apart from me seems to be able to do.

[juliet]

I went climbing again! Twice! After a few weeks off due to Life Stuff.

I am down a grade again, but I am sure it will return.

[rydra_wong]

It will! Anyway, various people have commented that there's been a spasm of mean grading at the Arch lately; there are some particularly evil V3s in the new front room. So take all grades with a due pinch of salt. *g*

[originalkitsune]

crap. I'm late for Friday Glee but hopefully you guys will accept Saturday Glee instead? :)

I'm getting back into rock climbing more often after breaking my foot. It's a slow process.

[rydra_wong]

I think the comm's pretty accepting. *g* Glee is welcome any day of the week, in fact.

Hi and welcome, and I hope your foot recovers well!