Friday glee is keeping an eye on Yosemite

[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: 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.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

to the really slanted V0s

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!

[fadeaccompli]

Overhangs! That's the word I was looking for. I'm not really sure at what point a wall transitions from "a kinda tilty vertical" to "a not-too-bad overhang", but the ones I'm falling off have definitely been overhangs.

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.

[rydra_wong]

I'm not really sure at what point a wall transitions from "a kinda tilty vertical" to "a not-too-bad overhang"

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.

[fadeaccompli]

Ahah! In that case, I've been doing overhangs that are something like 5-15 degrees off vertical, but now I'm trying to tackle the walls that are more like 30-50 degrees away. It's sort of impressive how fast the route goes from "do I have the skills for this" to "do I have the physical capability for this" (no!) as the angle of tilt gets worse.