Friday glee is on the road

[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: Ashima Shiraishi goes bouldering in Colorado for the first time. And climbs V13, as she does.

Comments

[emperor]

New Routes! Better still, lots of them in the plausible-for-me range! Even better still, I managed to onsight half a dozen of them (one of them on lead, no less, though that was only a 5). We had fun on Wednesday :-)

[wpadmirer]

Tomorrow, if all goes well, I'll be climbing with my unofficially adopted daughter Kim and her boyfriend Nick. They climb at a different gym. In September they climbed El Capitan in Yosemite. Climbing with them is always amazing because they are really great climbers. I take pride in the fact that I introduced Kim to climbing. She's far surpassed me in skill and experience, but she wouldn't be there without me!

[astridv]

Beautiful climbing, in that vid!

I just got back from the gym (regular, not climbing). I think I'm getting a feeling for that new pegboard. It's really challenging and fun. I'm using a different technique from all those muscle guys though... I don't see the point of even trying to keep my arms at a 90° angle while moving; that burns strength like nothing else. I'm keeping my arms extended, it's a lot easier that way.

[mongrelheart]

Late to the party as usual ;) That girl in the video is amazing! And she must be like, 12! Holy moly...

I have some glee to report: I was visiting my mom in Hawaii (where I'm from originally), and got a chance to check out a local gym called the Volcanic Rock Gym. The owner was super cool & even gave me some impromptu coaching. Some things that I learned: how to switch feet by stepping on top of the foot & sliding bottom foot out, & also how to roll your shoulder towards the wall to make gravity work in your favor... Hehe I'm sure there are words for these things. Anyway it was really fun & I was sooo stoked.