rydra_wong: Lisa Rands' chalky hands on the sloper on the route Gaia (climbing -- hands)
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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: after freeing the Longhope route, Dave MacLeod and Andy Turner relax on a mere E5 on Orkney.

Note: the Long Hope DVD is now out, it's amazing (here's the UKC review), and it even has MacLeod's ascent of the infamous Indian Face as an extra (here's MacLeod looking at it and backing off it back in 2007). Support your local Scottish hardcore obsessive world-class athlete and blogger!

Date: 2011-12-09 10:06 am (UTC)
miss_s_b: River Song and The Eleventh Doctor have each other's back (Default)
From: [personal profile] miss_s_b
[personal profile] sevenhelz came to visit the other day and brought me cool pictures and we went climbing together with my little one. My little one did almost a full traverse of the slab room at Rokt.

Date: 2011-12-09 03:25 pm (UTC)
miss_s_b: River Song and The Eleventh Doctor have each other's back (Default)
From: [personal profile] miss_s_b
She's been off school with a chest infection this week, actually. But she'll be fine. She's on amoxycillin.

Date: 2011-12-09 04:14 pm (UTC)
miss_s_b: River Song and The Eleventh Doctor have each other's back (Default)
From: [personal profile] miss_s_b
Oh, she's 8. And slightly aspie. And very cute.

Date: 2011-12-09 01:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wpadmirer
Nice!

Date: 2011-12-09 12:13 pm (UTC)
emperor: Photograph of me climbing. (climbing)
From: [personal profile] emperor
He's also fed to DW as [syndicated profile] davemacleod_feed [the online climbing coaching blog] and [syndicated profile] davem_feed [his more general climbing blog] :)

I had one of those moments yesterday where I was trying to get over an overhang, and my feet weren't on great holds, and my center of gravity was far too far out from the wall to just stand up, and the handholds were a bit fingery. I thought "bother, not going to make this move", and yet somehow managed to haul on the handholds and pull myself into the wall enough to stand up. Dreadful triumph of brute strength and ignorance over technique, but felt good anyway :-)

Date: 2011-12-09 01:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wpadmirer
Oh, I love it when I have a moment that I do something I didn't think I could do. It's fantastic! Congratulations!

Date: 2011-12-09 01:41 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] emperor
I, too, have sometimes deployed the class trad move "the arse jam" when climbing outside :)

Date: 2011-12-09 04:16 pm (UTC)
miss_s_b: River Song and The Eleventh Doctor have each other's back (Default)
From: [personal profile] miss_s_b
arse jam

* snerk *

Date: 2011-12-09 01:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wpadmirer
My glee is climbing tonight! My partner is a lawyer (estates and trusts and other things like that), and December is a horrible month for her. She gets buried in work. So we didn't climb until Wednesday. But then life worked out, and my plans for Friday night fell through, and she's free - so we're climbing tonight! YAY!

Date: 2011-12-09 01:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sixbeforelunch
My glee is beating V1s after going forever without bouldering. I even made some progress on the start of a V2. And I had an absolute blast being amazed at what my body was able to do after I stopped being afraid.

Date: 2011-12-09 04:13 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] emperor
Sounds good :-)

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