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disobey_gravityThe 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: Matt Cousins makes the first highball/solo ascent of Chimaera, "the hardest route on southern sandstone". Because the distance shot makes it look like a path, check out the close-up of the crux.
And here's Jon Partridge doing the 4th ascent a couple of years ago.
For context, the "southern sandstone" in the UK (the outcroppings around Tunbridge Wells) is exceptionally fragile, and it would be impossible to place gear or bolts without damaging the rock. Thus, everything has to be top-roped or bouldered/solo-ed, and it's the only place where top-roping is considered to "count" as a proper ascent.
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: Matt Cousins makes the first highball/solo ascent of Chimaera, "the hardest route on southern sandstone". Because the distance shot makes it look like a path, check out the close-up of the crux.
And here's Jon Partridge doing the 4th ascent a couple of years ago.
For context, the "southern sandstone" in the UK (the outcroppings around Tunbridge Wells) is exceptionally fragile, and it would be impossible to place gear or bolts without damaging the rock. Thus, everything has to be top-roped or bouldered/solo-ed, and it's the only place where top-roping is considered to "count" as a proper ascent.
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Date: 2013-07-26 11:20 am (UTC)I am supposed to climb tonight. I've had an exhausting week, so I expect I'll suck wind, but I'll go anyway. (grin)
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Date: 2013-07-26 12:56 pm (UTC)Hope you have a great climb tonight! Sometimes I've had my best sessions when I feel wiped out and go with no expectations of doing anything except bumbling around gently and having fun.
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Date: 2013-07-27 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-27 12:12 pm (UTC)Given how accident-prone she is, I initially read that as "she is broken" ...
Good luck for next week, anyway.
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Date: 2013-07-27 12:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-26 01:41 pm (UTC)I had a very short climbing session this week, as I started feeling a bit sick after 3 climbs. But, those were three good climbs (my project route I got up with only 1 fall, and it feels like I might get it before it gets re-set on the 7th; something I'd not looked at before, and a tricky little problem that's eluded me a few times), and my climbing partners were very sympathetic!
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Date: 2013-07-26 01:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-27 11:44 am (UTC)