Friday glee is doing what comes naturally

[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: Dave MacLeod sends his new problem on the Skeleton Boulder, Natural Method, 8B(+?) (link goes to the video on his blog, where he discusses the climb and recovering from severe elbow problems).

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Leader falls always look incredibly scary to me. Glad you got yours out of the way!

[rydra_wong]

FWIW, I found it didn't feel any dfferent from a bouldering fall. I think my perspective's pretty skewed from having only bouldered for three years before getting on a top-rope; when I fall, I expect to go somewhere.

So I was disturbingly blase about it, and possibly need to work on being less so. *g*

[wpadmirer]

Huh. Well, maybe if I'd bouldered more. I didn't mind falling when I was bouldering, and I don't fear it when I'm roped. But I also never climbed very high when I was bouldering. My highest fall was only about 6 feet up. Not high at all. Though I did land flat on my back. (grin)