Friday glee is eyeing up the office buildings

[rydra_wong]

The Friday post of glee is where you get to tell us about your climbing-related happiness this week. 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, from the film Nouvelle Vague: a spot of buildering around Geneva.

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[juliet]

ooooh! Which one?

My glee: I went climbing. Only the once, but I went! Right now this is a bit of an achievement all by itself. Also, while there, I solved a problem that had been baffling me. It turned out to be physically pretty straightforward -- though involved using a corner (bother have lost the correct word) of wall as a hold, which I used to be rubbish at and therefore am pleased whenever I do it now -- but I'd been starting from completely the wrong position.

After that I went up it twice, just for fun :)

Also there are some nice bridge-y / lever-y problems in the corner of the 5% slope in the new front room at the Arch, which I am enjoying.

[rydra_wong]

Yay climbing! Yay triumphing over bafflement! Yay bridge-y fun!

ooooh! Which one?

The red-and-black V3, just next to the 5 degree slab. Which is really a V0 apart from the run-jump-kick start (and it is a V0 for people who are tall enough to reach up and grab the starting hold from standing, which a few people are). But I've never ever managed one of those before, or even imagined that I might at some future point.

Which was the problem you triumphed over?

corner (bother have lost the correct word)

Arete?

[juliet]

Arete! That is the word.

The triumph-y problem was at the back of the left-hand bit of the old back room. One of the green & white spotty ones.