Friday glee has gritstone rash

[rydra_wong]

The Friday post of glee is where you get to tell us about your climbing-related happiness this week.

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 -- yes, I freely admit that I am on a streak of posting gritstone vids, but here's yet another. Having made my own pilgrimage to Fontainebleau earlier in the year, I'm charmed to see these guys coming in the opposite direction:

4 Froggies in the Peak part and Part 2.

(My French is nonexistent, but I'm getting the impression there may be some sheep jokes in there ...)

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Oh yes, climbing can have a wonderful brain-cleaning effect.

[emperor]

Handy for dealing with any surplus fingertip skin, too ;-)

[rydra_wong]

Saves on nail-trimming! Exfoliates the skin!

(A patch on my jawline got quite vigorously exfoliated on my trip when I slid slowly and inexorably off an especially rounded top-out ....)

[emperor]

Ouch! Recent climbing trips seem to have rather had it in for my knees - I always seem to bash one or other of them when struggling with an overhang.

[rydra_wong]

I seem to go through phases -- there'll be a patch of a few weeks where it's always my knees, and then it'll be grazed elbows, and then something else ...

But I knew I was going to get scuffed up in the Peak District; gritstone is gorgeous stuff, but the inevitable downside of its friction is that it cheese-graters your skin.