Friday glee has eaten lunch under that overhang

[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: Tom Newman on Voyager (Font 8B/V13)

Comments

[emperor]

I've been climbing twice this week :-) Also, the BMC Leading Ladder has come to Inverness, so there have been some people leading 8as up one of the overhanging walls!

[wpadmirer]

Whoo-hoo! Overhangs are hard. I'm sure you're enjoying that.

[rydra_wong]

That must be something to watch ...

[wpadmirer]

Never partner with a lawyer. (grin) She's had two trials back to back, so no climbing! But next Monday we'll be back on a wall.

[astridv]

I just went indoor bouldering for the first time in months. All new routes! I climbed only 90 minutes but I feel nicely powered out now. And my palms feel kind of shredded, since I'm usually wearing gloves right now when I'm climbing outside.

I also used the emptiness of the gym to practice my wall-up jump, and after a few tries actually managed to grasp one of the holds above me and hang onto it, several times. So that pleases me greatly.

[wpadmirer]

Sounds fantastic.

[astridv]

It was great. Muscles between the shoulder blades are sore as hell today.

But it's a good pain. :)

[wwilliam47]

Hyper-local wall has a new v0 up.

You may ask, why is this a matter of glee? I'll tell you. I don't know. But it's a tradition. Because it's actually a v0 that takes some measure of skill. Hyper-local wall, as I may have mentioned before, is fond of increasing the difficulty of a climb largely by increasing the difficulty of the holds; this one is difficult because of their placement.

After a session and a half working on it (and other SQUIRREL!) I still don't quite have it down. What I do have is a wee bit of improvement in technique being forced upon me by this. Also a measure of progress on the long traverse v2 whose crux is in the same corner as said new v0. "Get your weight under your arms and then swing across this gap" is far, far easier said than done for me still...

[wpadmirer]

I love routes that teach me new skills. We had a guy who set routes in our gym that taught me SO many new skills. I loved his routes. Unfortunately he graduated (he was a student at the university) and moved away. WOE!