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]

I have a shiny new project at the climbing wall.

*happiness*

[aella_irene]

I climbed! Not very well, but I climbed, and I spent a lot of time staring at the walls. And I belayed a friend.

[rydra_wong]

\o/

The staring at the walls is a very important part. *g* You'll see a lot of it going on at climbing walls ...

[astridv]

I found this vid I enjoyed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyriIYhifec

My favorite part starts at 3:30, climbing on some tower in Vienna... pretty spectacular, it looks like so much fun!

(Not quite as spectacular: I just climbed a tree to pick pears. :)

[ursula]

I am publishing an article about math anxiety and climbing! It will be in Math Horizons, which is a magazine for math majors.

[wpadmirer]

Cool!

[wpadmirer]

I've spent a lot of time staring at walls myself. I think sometimes I'm waiting for them to tell me how to get up them, but they don't reveal their secrets easily! (grin)

[wpadmirer]

Holy shit! That's a cool video! Thanks for sharing.

[wpadmirer]

That's impressive! I would love to read it.

[wpadmirer]

My glee this week is that my regular climbing partner is back, and we're climbing two to three times a week together!

[rydra_wong]

\o/

[rydra_wong]

Seconded. Is it going to be online? I'm fascinated to know how those two subjects intersect.

[ursula]

It's more or less "How I used what I know about math anxiety to get myself up a wall". I'll post it on my professional webpage once it gets published, maybe in six months or so?

[rydra_wong]

Coolness! That really does sound interesting.

[syderia]

My glee this week is that I got new shoes for my birthday and I got to try them.
They're my first technical shoes - meaning that for the first time I have to take them off when I'm not climbing - but they don't hurt that much when I'm climbing, which I was slightly afraid off.

[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]

Wow. I like that urban bouldering park, too. Looks like real rock?

(And trees count too! I've been spending a certain amount of time mantel-ing up onto a wall to pick apples off one of my trees, before they go splat all over my neighbours' garden. *g*)

[rydra_wong]

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

[fadeaccompli]

I went climbing two days in a row, which did interesting things to my arms. But then it was a mild revelation that the day after that, they...weren't sore, despite how much they'd hurt by about twenty minutes into the second day of climbing. So it feels like I may be improving in stamina/resilience, which is a nice thing to think about when I'm being terrorized by the Killer Wall yet again.

[rydra_wong]

\o/ I'm impressed! I still mostly can't manage consecutive days climbing without completely trashing myself. Though this may just be evidence that I'm shit at pacing myself. *g*

[emperor]

I've been away with no chances to climb, so no glee from me. Lord of the Flies is the first climbing route I knew the name of, back when I was a kid and did a week's climbing course in Wales. I watched (from a rather easier route!) someone working up that blank wall of rock, and it's an image that's always stuck with me, even though I suspect I'll never be good enough to climb E6 6a. Awesome climbing.

[rydra_wong]

even though I suspect I'll never be good enough to climb E6 6a.

We can dream!