Friday glee thinks this is just really pretty

[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: ice climbing on a frozen waterfall at the Cascade de l'Oule in France.

Comments

[weirdquark]

I finally bought climbing shoes!

And then I went to the bouldering wall to break them in properly (the store didn't have wall to test them on though they did have some footholds attached to a post) to discover that it was time to change the routes at the gym and staff took down every single hold that was on the wall and had only gotten around to putting up one new one. (It was a V0. I climbed it. And that was it for the day, sigh.)

At least there will be new routes up next time I go.

[rydra_wong]

Yay shoes! Whatcha get? (I am a climbing shoe geek, so always interested in hearing other people's reports.)

And alas for inconveniently-timed resets. Though at least there will be all-new things for next time.

[weirdquark]

They're Mad Rock, one of the beginner ones. I don't remember seeing the model name anywhere obvious so I don't know which one while not looking at them though I'm sure it says somewhere. They were orange and had velcro? Looking at the MadRock website, they were probably the Flash -- the store did have a model that they said was specifically a woman's shoe but it wasn't it, so probably Flash and not OnSight.

And that's about all the report I can give without getting to climb in them for an hour -- they seemed reasonably solid on the footholds on the pole and when I tried stepping up on the box-tables they had in the store using very little of my toe I was able to do so using very little of my toe, so they seem nicely stiff and solid and felt tight but not too painful for the time I had them on, which wasn't very long.

I also tried out a pair of Evols in the store but those felt uncomfortably tight and when I went up a half size still felt like they pinched in the toe even though they looked wider than the MadRocks and didn't feel as stable around the ankle so I didn't get 'em.

[rydra_wong]

when I tried stepping up on the box-tables they had in the store using very little of my toe I was able to do so using very little of my toe, so they seem nicely stiff and solid and felt tight but not too painful for the time I had them on, which wasn't very long.

I also tried out a pair of Evols in the store but those felt uncomfortably tight and when I went up a half size still felt like they pinched in the toe even though they looked wider than the MadRocks and didn't feel as stable around the ankle so I didn't get 'em.

*nods*

Sounds like you've got a really good fit for your shoe shape and size, then. Fingers crossed they break in nicely and work well for you!