Friday glee is as cold as ice

[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: Ines Papert, ice-climbing on an artificial ice city.

Comments

[emperor]

OK, that's an excellent video :)

[I nearly said "very cool"...]

[rydra_wong]

[I nearly said "very cool"...]

Ba-dum, tish! *g*

[wpadmirer]

I agree. That video is cool! Climbing today with my partner. She's getting off work early (I have Fridays off), and we're going to climb before the gym gets crowded. YAY!

[rydra_wong]

Yay off-peak climbing!

[ursula]

Looks like I have a climbing partner!

[rydra_wong]

\o/

[astridv]

I'm pleased because can only go the the wall once a week now (well, that part kind of sucks) but I found that I can get a great exercise when I direct my running route via every playground that has structures which can be creatively re-purposed by a taller person. I just now did my regular 5 mile route and stopped on four or five playgrounds and I was completely wiped in the end. So, success. :) It seems to be effective in the long term, too; I noticed that I make progress at the wall as long as I do even such a little bit of bouldering on the side.

[rydra_wong]

Yay for creative re-purposing of civic architecture! *g*

[fadeaccompli]

My Saturday glee, since I am bad about responding promptly:

I just got back from bouldering on real rock for the first time. Which also involved going up a chimney route for the first time. (I did it twice.) That was painful and thrilling, and I totally want to do it again. (Even if every time I got to the top, I had to sit down for a few minutes to let the adrenaline wear off before I could safely down-climb.)

[rydra_wong]

Yay chimneying! \o/ I looove anything I can back-and-foot.

I had to sit down for a few minutes to let the adrenaline wear off before I could safely down-climb

Been there, done that. Quite often. *g*