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rydra_wong ([personal profile] rydra_wong) wrote in [community profile] disobey_gravity2011-11-04 08:14 am
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Friday glee likes free films

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, Outcrops Films have put their first full-length film (44 minutes) up on Vimeo. Tomorrow I Will Be Gone follows a group of top British boulderers in Rocklands, South Africa.
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[personal profile] astridv 2011-11-04 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
44 minutes, cool! Thanks for sharing that link!

My glee of the week is that we've been having a perfect golden October (and now November) so you can still go bouldering outdoors. I almost finished a traverse route of the building I've been working on... only two meters are missing from a full round.

And I ordered a pair of climbing gloves I'm quite excited about; they haven't arrived yet so I have no idea if they actually work, but I hope with them I'll be able to keep climbing outdoors right through the winter months.
Edited 2011-11-04 09:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] wpadmirer 2011-11-04 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool beans! That sounds really interesting to do. I've never tried to traverse a building.
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[personal profile] astridv 2011-11-04 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
It's fun. You're never high above ground and don't need a crashpad, which is handy. And going in a horizontal direction is challenging in a different way from going up so it nicely complements climbing at the indoor wall.