Friday glee *has* found a cool ice-climbing vid

[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: Klemen Premrl, Tim Emmett, Raphael Slawinski and Will Gadd climb more ridiculously hard things on the spray ice at Helmcken Falls.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I'm still walking in the warm pool twice a week and climbing once a week. It'll do for the moment, but I hope that I find a partner so I can climb more! Though I'm not sure where I'd put it in my schedule. (grin) I'm working three jobs at the moment.

[emperor]

That is some truly epic ice climbing. Awesome!

[rydra_wong]

I have glee because hopefully on Tuesday I get to start putting some weight on my left foot again ...

[weirdquark]

Got back to climbing yesterday for the first time in about a month. They're redoing the routes again and this round has much more reasonable handholds for the V0s. (The last set of routes were not reasonable at all; I usually manage to complete four out of five of the V0 routes (there's usually one on an underhang which requires more flinging than I've been able to manage) and I think I managed one because the grips were super weird on the others. I talked to some of the other climbers and we think some of the routes were mislabeled-- there was a V1 that I had a much easier time with than any of the V0s and I usually can't get those at all.

I did have to cut things short though; I think I may have burst a tiny blood vessel at the top joint of one of my fingers because it started hurting whenever I put pressure on it and it looked like there was a tiny bit of bruising under the chalk.