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 :-)

[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]

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]

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!