Friday glee is smiling
Dec. 27th, 2013 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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: Tyler Landman solves one of gritstone's Last Great Problems -- Smiling Buttress at Curbar.
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: Tyler Landman solves one of gritstone's Last Great Problems -- Smiling Buttress at Curbar.
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Date: 2013-12-27 12:17 pm (UTC)Last week when I climbed on the auto-belay, I once again had a huge birthday party that I had to share with. I have to say that I've been very fortunate. The children who come to the rock gym seem to all be very polite, which makes it pleasant.
I climbed until I was sweating and exhausted, and when I left the kids were still going up and down the walls like frenetic little monkeys. I cannot imagine having that kind of energy anymore!
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Date: 2013-12-27 09:36 pm (UTC)I cannot imagine having that kind of energy anymore!
OTOH, if it was a birthday party, they were probably on a sugar high by that point. *g*
As always, thanks for sharing great video!
My pleasure! Especially having watched Landman's climbing career since he was a baby!climber (okay, in his early teens). He seems to have handled the child-sports-prodigy thing well; apparently he made a conscious decision that he didn't want to make it the sole focus of his life, and currently he climbs ridiculously hard things like this in his holidays from studying neuroscience.
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Date: 2013-12-27 11:09 pm (UTC)On Sunday I went climbing with a friend who was in the beginner class with me. Also met a few new peeps there. I'd really love to meet a buddy who would bug me to go with them. So far it's always me doing the bugging :)
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Date: 2013-12-28 04:29 pm (UTC)