Friday glee has the perfect icon for this

[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: Alex Honnold, who appears to have been born without a nervous system, flashes 'Gaia'. Rather charmingly, Honnold insisted that this didn't count as an onsight as he'd seen Hard Grit on TV a while ago.

(Note: icon is of Lisa Rands's hands on the crucial sloper.)

Comments

[ridicully]

I've just come back from my second climbing session of the week.
And I've got my first climbing blisters! I firmly believe that blisters show that you're doing something right.

[rydra_wong]

W00t! And yay for blisters and other righteously-acquired war wounds!

Have you got some Climb On bar, or similar balm-type stuff? That can help heal shredded hands faster (so you can climb more).

[ridicully]

I'm ok with blisters (drain them, tape them, ignore them) and they heal reasonable fast on me anyway, but I will have a look at some balmy stuff, thanks.

The really embarassing injury is a bruised and swollen lip - because I clipped it in my water bottle. Now to convince people I *didn't* get into a fight *g*

[rydra_wong]

Commiserations! I have an amazing knack for really embarrassing self-injury, especially as I bruise very easily and have no co-ordination.