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

[wpadmirer]

Those ice climbers are NUTS!

No climbing for me this week, because my partner is off doing a trad climb in Alabama.

In other news, the mysteriously disappearing/accident prone partner contacted me this week! So there may be more climbing in my future.

My glee

[rydra_wong]

I have a new personal record for number of consecutive pull-ups.

And my foot physio is progressing: I can stand on tiptoe on my left foot again.

ETA: oh, and I have glee because Fran Brown (who climbs at my wall!) got an article about her in the national papers:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/9949854/Meet-Fran-Brown-the-real-spider-woman.html

[emperor]

Wow, that is Death. Beautiful, breath-taking Death, but Death all the same. I wish I was hardcore enough to do that sort of thing :)

[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.