Friday glee is keeping an eye on Yosemite
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disobey_gravityThe 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: Lynn Hill climbing in Yosemite, talking about focus and body position when setting up for moves.
And apparently Hazel Findlay has just sent Golden Gate (5.13b) on El Cap.
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: Lynn Hill climbing in Yosemite, talking about focus and body position when setting up for moves.
And apparently Hazel Findlay has just sent Golden Gate (5.13b) on El Cap.
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Date: 2011-10-21 10:18 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-10-21 10:47 am (UTC)And the giant free-standing boulder at the Reach is finally open, and (according to one of the staff) I was the first person they've seen top out on it.
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Date: 2011-10-21 10:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-21 11:48 am (UTC)(Freaking overhanging top-out. And I am terrible at top-outs. Which was why I did it; I assumed it was terrifying because I am terrified by top-outs. Whereas it appears that everyone is terrified by this, and has been tagging the top hold and then down-climbing.)
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Date: 2011-10-21 02:55 pm (UTC)This doesn't mean I'm actually climbing those. Ha ha! No, it means I'm repeatedly falling off the starts of them, several times in a row. But it feels like "something I need to get stronger for" or "something I need to get better at" rather than "something entirely beyond my level and comprehension" the way, say, V5s are. So I'm still seeing it as a type of progress.
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Date: 2011-10-21 03:05 pm (UTC)The ones that hang over you? Overhangs. *g* The up-and-down ones are "vertical", and the ones that slope away from you are "slabs".
And that's definitely progress!
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Date: 2011-10-21 03:12 pm (UTC)Is there a particular word for the outright horizontal bits? The gym has a few small sections of those, just below overhangs or verticals. If it follows the pattern, I suppose "horizontals" would make sense.
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Date: 2011-10-21 03:22 pm (UTC)Anything that's more-than-vertical is technically an overhang, but overhangs can be more or less "steep".
If it follows the pattern, I suppose "horizontals" would make sense.
But instead, they're "roofs". *g*
Once you have the strength to stay on at all, roof climbing is exhausting but ridiculous amounts of fun.
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Date: 2011-10-21 03:26 pm (UTC)