Friday glee is not having a mid-life crisis

[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: The story of Mecca -- The Mid-Life Crisis. Martin Atkinson tells the story behind the first ascent of the iconic 8b+ sport route at Raven Tor.

As an added bonus, here's Alex Barrows on Kaabah, the 8c+ super-direct finish to Mecca.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I'm meeting my former climbing partner (the one who is so accident prone) this evening for coffee. I'm hoping this leads to eventual climbing!

[rydra_wong]

Fingers crossed!

(For climbing, and for her to remain injury-free.)

[emperor]

Last week's trip to Harlow was pretty demoralising - one of those evenings when I'd get 1/2 way up a pretty easily-graded route and then just get stuck. This week, though, was much better. There were some fun new routes (not yet graded) to muck around on, and I climbed one of the easy routes that had defeated me last week.

My Cambridge-based climbing partners seem like they might be keen for some outdoor climbing if it ever stops raining, too :-)

[rydra_wong]

Yay for triumphs and possible outdoor trips!

[wpadmirer]

There's nothing like victory over a route that's defeated you before!