Friday glee bows to the masters

[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: Lynn Hill and Ron Kauk bouldering in Camp 4

Comments

[astridv]

Not so much squee this week since I'm taking a two-week break from climbing so one of my fingers (the one I pulled over a year ago) can get the short time-out that it apparently wants. But after only one week of not climbing it already feels much better, if still a little stiff. So I'm making tentative plans to go again next week. Maybe take it a little easy, only climb for an hour.

looking forward to the vid!
Wait, I have one too: bouldering competition with an extremely cool problem!

[rydra_wong]

Oooh, nice vid. Thanks! Though my favourite bit is the move at 1:10; I think that's even more impressive than the final guy who just powers through it.

Do you tape your finger up? For me, figure-of-eight taping can usually at least keep me from worsening a tendon problem, if only by discouraging me from bending the finger too tightly.

[astridv]

Yeah, I plan to tape the finger up the next times, see if that makes a difference. That's what I did for the first few months after I injured it.

I'm reasonably sure it's not a tendon problem... actually, I think it's more a coincidence it's the same finger: I vaguely recall hitting my knuckle a while ago and that's where it hurts, and I've only been noticing it for a few weeks. It only hurts a day or two after climbing, the rest of the time it's just a bit stiff when I make a tight fist. But that's almost back to normal now.

Possibly that hit to the knuckle had more effect because the finger is still stiffer and more sensitive than the others to begin with. So, yeah, taping should provide extra protection, can't hurt to have that.

Though my favourite bit is the move at 1:10; I think that's even more impressive than the final guy who just powers through it.

That move is smooth, innit! But the careless ease with which the last guy strolls through the problem is very cool too.

[wpadmirer]

That is a very cool video!

[astridv]

Yeah, both a great problem and beautiful climbing!