Friday glee thinks it's definitely winter

[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: New Hampshire climber Bayard Russell is introduced to the idiosyncrasies of Scottish winter climbing by Nick Bullock and Guy Robertson (and by "introduced to" I mean "traumatized by").

Do we have any winter climbers in the comm?

Comments

[astridv]

Icy, slippery rock! That looks not so appealing to me... way too hardcore.

[allochthonous]

I had an operation this week so no climbing but I got my first shoes last week, which I've climbed in a few times and seem to do the right amount of toe-scrunching without being actually painful, so I was pretty happy about that (having read so many horror stories about how difficult it is to buy shoes!).

[ridicully]

I went climbing for the first time in a month this week! And I could still do V2s! I also worked out how to do freshly set problem that had a lot of people puzzled. Excitement!

[emperor]

I've played around at the indoor ice wall(!) in Kinlochleven, but never actually done any real winter climbing. I've yet to find someone keen to go with (my usual partners have this strange idea that snowy mountains are for falling down strapped to planks of wood, not for climbing up).

[wpadmirer]

I climbed for the first time in several weeks last night. It was good, but my endurance was shit. (sigh)