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

[fadeaccompli]

My bouldering gym, which had recently reset things so that all of the easy V0 routes were gone, finally put some more V0 routes back in, including one which (aside from a fiddly start) is a nice easy laddery climb. Given that a few of my friends are even newer at climbing than I am, this is excellent news; it means at least one of them can finally get to climb a full route again, where she couldn't before.

I also nearly bought a harness, and didn't, mostly because I was annoyed by all of the harnesses for women being available only in pale purple. Sigh. But still! I'm definitely at the point where I can go "Yes, I should buy a harness because I'm going to use it often enough to make it worth buying instead of renting," so I call that some good Friday glee anyway.

[rydra_wong]

Yay V0s! And yay harness, even if it's pale purple!

[emperor]

I'm considering marking Getting Older later this year with a new harness - my current one is getting a bit long in the tooth.

[rydra_wong]

Climbing gear does provide such wonderful excuses for consumerism. *g*

Though as a boulderer, I can only manifest this by obsessing about shoes and designing my own chalkbags.

Seriously, though, when it comes to anything your life may depend on, I think you've got a good reason to replace it sooner rather than later.