Friday glee is like a feather

[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: stolen shamelessly from UKClimbing.com, the video of James MacHaffie's redpoint of his first 9a, Big Bang, complete with a move-by-move commentary from Caff, which is completely fascinating for those of us who like geeking out about such things.

In other news, Charlotte Durif has reportedly also got her first 9a -- a matter of minutes before turning 21. This makes her possibly the second woman ever to climb this grade.

Comments

[fadeaccompli]

On Tuesday, I sent two routes which I'd only been able to finish once before. So, nothing new, but they were both challenging ones that I wasn't sure I could do, and it was deeply satisfying to actually finish them again.

[rydra_wong]

\o/ It can be a worthwhile thing to do -- going from feeling "I can get lucky and do this once" to "this is a level of performance I can consistently manage".