Friday glee is going for the onsight

[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: Jude Spancken on 'Pretty Girls Make Graves' and onsighting 'Lord of the Flies' (trad climbing in Wales).

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Yay shoes! What did you get? (Forgive me, I'm a climbing shoe geek.)

In my experience, if you've just got them this week and they "don't hurt that much" when you're climbing, that's a good sign that you've got the right size and that over the next few weeks they'll break in and end up tight but painless.

[syderia]

I got Tenaya Ra.
And since I pretty much just trusted the guy at the shop, searching for a link for you has shown me that they are indeed the kind of shoes I wanted. :-)

[rydra_wong]

I don't know the brand, but the Vibram XS Grip is really good rubber.