Friday glee is on a road trip

[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: Towers of the Ennedi. Mark Synnott, James Pearson and Alex Honnold explore the desert towers of Chad.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

My Friday glee is that I'm going climbing on Christmas Day! It's a Christmas gift from a friend. He has access to a climbing site, and for Christmas he's taking me climbing. Now that's a present!

[rydra_wong]

That is a true friend. *g*

(I admit I'm taking my shoes with me for Christmas Day, so that when it all gets too much I can sneak out for a spot of buildering in the vicinity.)

[rydra_wong]

After being fairly low-energy for a while (following exhaustion and a long-running cold), I unexpectedly nailed the hard traverse.

And the lessons from the Johnny Dawes masterclass seem to be sinking into my brain: I managed a V4 with a ridiculously complex balance-y dyno, which filled me with delight -- such a beautiful, beautiful move. Made me very happy.

[wpadmirer]

WHOO-HOO! That sounds fabulous. Very, very cool.