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

[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!

[rydra_wong]

Your unofficially adopted daughter sounds amazing. How did your climb go?

[wpadmirer]

It got cancelled. (sigh) Unforeseen circumstances. So I'm going to head out in a bit and use the auto-belay at my gym. There's a 5.8 with a bunch of bouldery moves that I'm going to try to conquer next. I suck at bouldery moves, thus the 5.8 is actually harder for me than the 5.9 was.

[rydra_wong]

It got cancelled. (sigh) Unforeseen circumstances.

Woe! I hope the auto-belay session is fun, at least. By "bouldery", do you mean powerful, technical, or what?

[wpadmirer]

Power moves. I'm a decent technical climber, but power moves are not my strength. I'm STILL trying to build the upper body strength to do moves that require lots of shoulder strength.

[wpadmirer]

Wow. I used strength a lot in that answer, didn't I? (grin)