Friday glee is full of joy

[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: Nalle Hukkataival makes the world's hardest boulder problem look like a path

Comments

[wpadmirer]

My partner has tendonitis! WOE! So there was no climbing for me last weekend. But it was okay, I ended up being really busy both days, so I don't know how I would have gotten things done if she had been free to climb.

Because you know climbing would have come first. (grin)

Hopefully this weekend.

[emperor]

Tendonitis is a bugger :(

[wpadmirer]

It is. My first year of climbing I battled it continuously in my left elbow. Fortunately since then, I've not had any major problems. I'm grateful.

[rydra_wong]

WOE! Fingers, elbows, something else?

[wpadmirer]

Elbows apparently. Poor thing!

[rydra_wong]

I hope she's been supplied with the magic pdf:

http://www.athlon.com.au/articles/r&i_dodgyelbow.pdf

[wpadmirer]

I will share this with her! Thanks!

[emperor]

I like that they had some of him failing it before showing him crushing the problem :-)

[rydra_wong]

Yes -- it helps give an idea of how hard it actually is, I think. Otherwise, even though you can see how terrible the holds are, he looks so smooth and controlled on it that it gives the impression it can't be that hard really ...

[wpadmirer]

I agree. Sometimes you see these great climbers and they make it look SO easy. I just keep whapping myself upside the head and reminding me that *I* not that strong nor have that much technique. (grin)

[astridv]

Went toproping again with my new partner. The guy - a real skinny dude due to some food allergies - is a beast on the wall. It was only his third time but he climbed almost as many routes as I (I did 15) and he's already tackling 6ers.

It would be so great to have a regular toprope partner again!

[wpadmirer]

That's great. A good partner is hard to find!

[astridv]

Indeed. It doesn't help that indoor climbing isn't the cheapest sport around. And if you want to go outdoor buildering here you have to be creative and a bit adventurous (and not care about people staring).

[wpadmirer]

I have never tried buildering. And at my age, I have this feeling someone would show up to check and see if I was sane. (grin)

[astridv]

But it's so much fun though! That reminds me, I have some photos of a really nice wall I buildered on last year... I should crosspost them here when I got the time.

[wpadmirer]

You should! I'd love to see them.

[rydra_wong]

Yay new partner!