Friday glee is not entirely convinced by that mat arrangement

[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.

N.B. Please feel free to post your glee on any day of the week; the Friday glee is just to get the ball rolling.

To enhance this week's glee: Ryan Pasquill onsights James Pearson's route "Power of the Darkside" as a highball boulder problem, then gets his finger stuck in the roof. Featuring the mat stylings of Dan Varian.

Comments

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I went rock wall climbing for the first time last Monday night.

I haven't had opportunity to go back yet (all of the rock walls are located places where it's not prohibitively expensive to own/lease that much space, but that also means they're places that aren't super-convenient via public trans), but I enjoyed it enough to be interested in going back.

[rydra_wong]

\o/ W00t! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Isn't it amazing? *g*

But yeah, logistics can be a pain. I'm lucky enough to be in London, which has lots of indoor walls -- but is a long way from anything resembling actual rocks.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

:) It is totes from reading your posts for long enough that I got tipped over into actually trying it out.

[rydra_wong]

*beams*