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

[emperor]

Yeah, I can see it's an interesting question, but people get far too heated about it!

[rydra_wong]

I think it's important that people are clear about how they did a route, and I'm sure it does affect the experience and the psychological challenges.

But there's a weird metaphysical extreme where some people seem to feel that if you do a route placing lots of gear or you solo it or you do it with gear that wasn't available to the first ascentionist, it's all the same thing, but if you put a bouldering mat at the bottom, it suddenly becomes a a completely different thing and somehow you haven't really done the route. That, I do not get.