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 ...)

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[fadeaccompli]

I went bouldering by myself a few times, and found a nemesis route! I fell off it repeatedly, then made it up the first few holds, then half of the way up, then 2/3 of the way up...

...and then when I went back two days later, they'd finally gotten around to resetting that wall, so it was gone. But I found another route that hit me with about the same pattern--repeatedly falling off before I could even start, then slowly progressing--which should last longer. So I have that to work on next time I go in. (I think. They usually only reset the walls every few months.) So, a new nemesis route! It's lots of fun. That's some good glee, right there.

Also gleeful: discovering that one or two V0 routes are now sufficiently easy for me that I can legitimately call them "warmup" routes.

I also tried some V1s at the encouragement of gym staff, and discovered that I can't even start the ones identified as "pretty easy" yet. Which was a little discouraging, but, hey, as long as the V0s are providing a challenge, I'm not exactly stagnating.

[rydra_wong]

Yay for having nemeses! It's always motivating, I find.

discovered that I can't even start the ones identified as "pretty easy" yet.

If the gym staff are being encouraging, they might be able to give you some tips. It's possible that the problems require more strength than you have right now, but it's also possible that it's a technique issue and that knowing how to tackle a particular move (or what move you need to be trying to make in the first place) could make them much easier.

[fadeaccompli]

The staff was pretty encouraging, but I feel like I can only ask for so much concentrated attention before I really ought to be paying for a proper lesson. That said, they have free instruction for women one night a week at each gym, so I might go ahead and try that as time allows.