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

[wpadmirer]

Shoes are hard. I have friends that buy them so small, I don't know how they get their feet in them. I refuse to wear mine that small. Tight, yes. Feet killing? Nope!

[emperor]

I bought some tighter shoes, and had to sell them because they hurt too much :(

[allochthonous]

I only went down half a size, and that's bad enough - I've no idea how some of the guys I've seen at the wall get their feet into shoes as tiny as they do!

[astridv]

I used to buy my shoes as small as possible like everybody says you should, but I got tired of getting my poor toes squeezed. For the most recent model I tried half a size larger which is much more comfortable, and works just as well on the wall. I think it might even work better.