Friday glee needs a Tomoko Ogawa icon

[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: Tomoko Ogawa becomes the first woman in the world to climb V14.

Comments

[allochthonous]

I took my beginner's course last weekend and have been climbing a few times since and it is awesome. I managed to do a couple of walls rated 5 yesterday which felt like a massive achievement when I got to the top, and made my way extremely messily through one of the very easy bouldering routes. I find it hugely frustrating how quickly my arms give out when I try bouldering, but I suppose it's one of those things where the only way to get better is to keep doing it...