Friday glee can't decide between "mantle" and "mantel"

[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: James Morris on Weapon Omega at Flock Hill in New Zealand, demonstrating the horrors of a V12 topout.

Comments

[astridv]

That topout's nasty! Wow.

[ridicully]

Agreed. It looks evil.

[rydra_wong]

I love the credits sequence too: "Be serious, James! Serious!"

[aella_irene]

I climbed on Monday, and there was visible improvement. Even if my arms and leg did ache for the next two days. Next time, I hope to fully complete a bouldering route, instead of getting 2/3 up, and coming down again.

[rydra_wong]

Yay improvement! \o/ And down-climbing is a good skill to develop, too.

[wpadmirer]

I climbed on Wednesday night for two hours. It was great. My partner and I are planning a marathon day of climbing on Saturday. In the gym, but still, it should be epic.

[rydra_wong]

\o/ Take snacks, is my advice. *g*

[wpadmirer]

Yep! Clif bars and fruit twists!

[rydra_wong]

I have a lovely new V5 project to struggle on.

And, god help me, I may possibly have a V6 project. I don't know if it's do-able (I don't know if the V5 is do-able), but it's the first time I've looked at a V6 and thought: MINE.

[wpadmirer]

I send good vibes! That's amazing that you're working such hard problems.

[rydra_wong]

Well, "working" is the key word here. *g* I've only ever done a handful of V5s, so I'm still trying to break into the grade (and that's indoors, not outdoors).

But the V6 looks delicious, like it plays to all my strengths, and might not be so dependent on power/finger strength that it shuts me down outright.

I need to have a proper look at it, but I know that in the past I've got a lot out of working problems that are out of my league and seeing how much of them I can do, even if I never send them.

[wpadmirer]

That is very, very cool. I like doing that. I am trying to work 5.9s. It's slow going, but it makes me feel strong, and I enjoy the puzzle.

[rydra_wong]

I've still got to check out the top holds; it's possible I may get up there tomorrow and find I flatly don't have the finger strength to use them. But the bottom moves are going to be worth working on, at least.

And in a weird way, it can take the pressure off to work on something I feel is way out of my league. I don't have to be able to send it, just enjoy it for whatever I can learn from it.

[juliet]

I went climbing this afternoon! For the first time in about 2 months (what with the nausea & then the moving house & then the being away).

Sadly am not supposed to go too far *up* (which I am interpreting as "don't go up if you're risking a fall" i.e. pottering around on slab V0s is fine) but there is plenty of along to be had.

[rydra_wong]

Yay climbing! I hope that means the nausea's gone?

[juliet]

Mostly! It recurs intermittently if I'm tired or haven't eaten for ~3 hrs (which is at least fairly easy to deal with :) ) but the constant-all-the-time-I'm-awake-and-upright nausea has worn off.

Unfortunately my climbing trousers don't fit any more... may have to resort to a safety-pin :)

[ursula]

I've been to the climbing wall in my new town twice now! I really need a local climbing partner.

[rydra_wong]

\o/ You might find that the climbing wall have some sort of message board for people looking for partners, or a group for new climbers.

[ursula]

I may try to convert a coworker, too. (I'm a brand-new professor, and the local wall is just that: a handful of top-rope routes set up in the corner of the university gym. Finding new climbers is easy-- finding new climbers who aren't my potential students is a little trickier.)

[rydra_wong]

I can see how that would be awkward, yes ...

[wpadmirer]

I send good vibes that you find a partner. I advertised for one, and also got the gym manager looking. Finally I found the perfect partner!