Friday glee has grippy hind claws

[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: This is a trailer from an upcoming bouldering movie. I really, really want to see it now. (Though why no women? Mina Leslie-Wujastyk or Katy Whittaker should be in there, at least.)

In other news, this cat is more hardcore than you.

Comments

[emperor]

My limestone glee is HS 4b :-)

[first lead at that grade last weekend. Hoping to get out on the rock on Monday, too]

[rydra_wong]

\o/ What route was it?

[emperor]

cascade.

If that cat isn't 'shopped, it's pretty cool :)

[rydra_wong]

I would bet it's not 'shopped -- that kind of textured wall surface seems to be very amenable to the use of claws:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHPFEotP3Bc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgtYrlFwzF0

I'm impressed by its laybacking style, though. *g*