Friday glee is not a Czech schoolboy

[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: Adam Ondra does his Adam Ondra thing, onsighting an 8c+ sport climb in Spain. Notable for the fact that he actually has to stop and think at one point.

Comments

Lots of fun this week :-)

[emperor]

The rain never really went away, so we didn't get much more climbing in. Perhaps unwisely, I elected to lead a route that looked rather similar to the one I fell off the other week, only twice as long, and a grade up! A bit scary, but I got there :-)

I was going to go to Symonds Yat tomorrow, but the forecast has changed to heavy rain, so I fear I may have done all the trad I'm going to this year...

One more 6B last night at the wall :-)

Re: Lots of fun this week :-)

[wpadmirer]

Perhaps unwisely, I elected to lead a route that looked rather similar to the one I fell off the other week, only twice as long, and a grade up! A bit scary, but I got there :-)

YAY! That's tremendous!

Re: Lots of fun this week :-)

[rydra_wong]

only twice as long, and a grade up! A bit scary, but I got there

ROCK ON.

[wpadmirer]

It's been a bad week for climbing for me. My new partner's mother-in-law is ill and in the hospital, so she's been unavailable all week! WOE!

But an old climbing partner comes back into town this weekend, and she called me wanting to climb when she gets back. So there's glee in that!

[fadeaccompli]

A climbing partner is a marvelous thing to find, and have.

[rydra_wong]

Woe! Yet future glee!

[ridicully]

I share your woes. I've had guests the whole week and couldn't convince them to entertain themselves for a few hours so I could get a climb in and had to abandon my climbing partners. WHY SO UNREASONABLE, GUESTS?

But I figured out where exactly that all bouldering hall in London is and how to get there, so hopefully I'll get a session in next week.

[rydra_wong]

Oh, hey, another London climber? Where are you going to be bouldering in London? There are a bunch of good places.

*is nosy*

[ridicully]

*pretends she didn't stalk this comm for tips where to go*

Oh, who am I kidding, I've been to the Castle so far and want to try the Arch next week. Which ... are pretty much the places that get talked about here the most *G*

[rydra_wong]

I don't think it counts as stalking when there are public threads reccing places to go. *g*

FWIW, Mile End (very big) and the Reach (smallish but nice bouldering section, with a top-out boulder) are also good, and I've heard good things about the Westway though never been.

But I do love the Arch; they've been very good to me. It's a very chilled-out and supportive place.

[ridicully]

FWIW, Mile End (very big) and the Reach (smallish but nice bouldering section, with a top-out boulder) are also good, and I've heard good things about the Westway though never been.
I've written those down now and will investigate. Maybe I'll even get around to writing up the experiences at some point.

Also on my list, XC close to my work.
I'll never run out of places to climb at, that's for sure :)

[wpadmirer]

I hope you do! That's got to be incredibly painful.

[fadeaccompli]

On Sunday, I got to go climbing at the top-rope gym with friends. Great fun, since I so seldom get to do belaying stuff, compared to bouldering. (I also got a bruise in a fascinating place that makes me wonder if I'm somehow wearing the harness correctly, but that's neither here nor there.) Deeply satisfying: re-climbing two routes I'd done before, which I recalled as challenging and involving much falling, and doing both of those (if not so much several others) without a single fall on the way up.

[emperor]

Sounds good! I occasionally get bruises in odd places; I think I sometimes bash myself while climbing and don't notice at the time...

[fadeaccompli]

I'm used to bruises on legs and arms, but this one definitely came from one of the harness leg loops, being in a place that definitely doesn't come into contact with the wall. It was rather impressive. (Possibly falling from the same hold five times in quick succession did it.)

[rydra_wong]

I always get bruises in odd places. I definitely bash myself without noticing, but I also bruise ridiculously easily anyway.

I've always bruised pretty easily (and have pale skin so it shows), but now I'm on meds that have taken it straight from "odd bruises" to HOLY FUCK DID SOMEONE BEAT YOU ABOUT THE SHINS WITH AN IRON BAR.

It's a little embarrassing sometimes.

[rydra_wong]

Deeply satisfying: re-climbing two routes I'd done before, which I recalled as challenging and involving much falling, and doing both of those (if not so much several others) without a single fall on the way up.

\o/ It's great to have those confirmations that yes, you are making progress.

[emperor]

So, we got up late on Saturday, but the weather was looking better, so we went somewhere closer to home - Markfield Quarry. A nice sunny afternoon, five more ticks, and another new rock type for the year. If I don't get any more trad done this year, that won't have been a bad end to the season!

[rydra_wong]

Very nice!