Friday glee is out on the slate again

[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: To The Rainbow, the 15-minute documentary about Paul Pritchard's return to the Rainbow Slab in the Dinorwig slate quarries, fourteen years after devastating head injuries (I wrote about it here).

The fact that it's on Vimeo in its entirety is possibly a massive copyright violation, but it's been put there by Pritchard's co-star, Johnny Dawes. Whose book is awesome.

Comments

[aella_irene]

I went climbing yesterday, and successfully climbed a new bouldering route! (This was good, even if the memory of getting stuck at the top and having to be talked down meant that I didn't entirely finish another one.) And I have been succeeding with traverses.

[rydra_wong]

I have my copy of Johnny Dawes's autobiography, and it's amazing!

I may have been the first person to top out on the new free-standing boulder at the Reach!

I linked the hard traverse at the Arch and am full of yay!

[wpadmirer]

My climbing week was non-existent for several reason this week, but mostly because my climbing partner stabbed herself in the hand when she fell on a knife! ACK! It went through her palm, but she was lucky and it didn't hurt the tendons, so she expects to be back by next week.

Then I started a new part-time job, and then got offered additional tutoring hours, so suddenly I found myself going from massively unemployed to massively employed! (grin)

But the glee this week is that someone I met at the rock gym is going to climb with me on Wednesday, at least, next week, so even if my partner is still out with an injury, I'll climb!

[emperor]

There are some new routes at our wall, and I onsighted some of them up to 6a+ :-)

[sadly, it was v. v. busy, so I didn't get a chance to fall offwork the 6b+ route I cannot even slightly climb that's my current project.]

[ridicully]

I'm getting far enough into the V1 roof routes that all hands and feet are actually somewhere on the ceiling \O/