Friday glee is still chanting GO HAZEL
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disobey_gravityThe 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: in honour of Hazel Findlay, here's another video featuring her, climbing at Squamish along with Will Stanhope, Tommy Caldwell and others.
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: in honour of Hazel Findlay, here's another video featuring her, climbing at Squamish along with Will Stanhope, Tommy Caldwell and others.
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Date: 2011-07-01 08:26 am (UTC)Must. Get. Better. At. Scary. Top-Outs.
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Date: 2011-07-01 03:08 pm (UTC)(Mostly I end up doing the beached whale top-out, complete with frantically kicking legs and extensive use of knees.)
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Date: 2011-07-01 02:57 pm (UTC)Yesterday was the second trip, and I strolled up the F6a+ by using the approach he suggested - that felt good :-) Onsighting F6a+s on top-rope feels hard-but-generally doable now, which is good! I need to work on a) leading b) stamina c) getting off the ground on the 6bs... Said newbie came for another go, too. I think we may have another convert ;-)
In case that isn't enough climbing joy for one week, I'm off to
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Date: 2011-07-01 03:13 pm (UTC)I hope you enjoy the grit (and post all about it!). I suspect it may be the Marmite of British rock: you either love it or you hate it.
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