Friday glee is out on the slate again
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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: 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.
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.
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Date: 2011-10-28 08:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 08:53 am (UTC)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.
Eh, it's the Fear, it happens to everyone. Sometimes it's right to try to push through it and sometimes it isn't; you have to find what's right for you at that particular moment.
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Date: 2011-10-28 08:54 am (UTC)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!
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Date: 2011-10-28 09:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 01:02 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2011-10-28 01:04 pm (UTC)But yay for non-injured tendons, and for climbing next week!
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Date: 2011-10-28 01:18 pm (UTC)I get the Fear at the top of lead climbs, too, when trying to unscrew the top screwgate to clip into it. It sometimes feels 100 times harder than the quickdraws the rest of the way up, which is clearly daft...
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Date: 2011-10-28 01:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 01:22 pm (UTC)[sadly, it was v. v. busy, so I didn't get a chance to
fall offwork the 6b+ routeI cannot even slightly climbthat's my current project.]no subject
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Date: 2011-10-28 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 09:35 pm (UTC)Poor climbing partner.
But yay for more people to climb with!
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Date: 2011-10-31 09:32 am (UTC)Everyone else thought we were mental but we didn't care. Hanging upside down like a sloth and not falling off warrants a bit of crazyness :D
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Date: 2011-10-31 11:33 am (UTC)