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

[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 think they're for looking at through big picture windows while drinking something hot.

[emperor]

This is a valid approach! And the one I will be using until I have more winter skills and partners.