Friday glee wants to climb that one day

[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: this is a trailer for an upcoming climbing film, but it works wonderfully as a short in its own right, featuring Barnaby Ventham climbing Not To Be Taken Away (V4), one of the most striking lines at Stanage Plantation.

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I went climbing with two friends, banged my elbow up seriously coming down a wall, climbed the only V1 in the gym that I can do more than once while showing it off to friends... So, no one specific moment of awesome, but all in all, it was a deeply satisfying climbing experience.

(Is it weird that I get all excited every time I get bruises while climbing? It's not that I want to be in pain, but it feels like it proves it's Real Exercise.)

[rydra_wong]

War wounds w00t! I admit to having photographed some of my more spectacular bruises and scrapes. So, erm, it may be weird, but you're not alone in your weirdness. *g*

I don't think it's masochistic either; I suspect it makes me feel as if I'm having an adventure and taking real (albeit very modest) risks. As someone who's been physically scared and afraid of hurting myself all my life, it's a big deal.