Aeth Friday glee i Llanberis am y tro cyntaf

[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: an ascent of Left Wall on Dinas Cromlech in the Llanberis Pass in 1964, back when nuts were still re-purposed machine nuts on string

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I have already climbed twice this week, and tonight I climb again. My new partner, Lior, wants to climb three nights a week. Whoo-hoo! So I'm meeting her once I've walked the dog and climbing for an hour or so. We exhaust ourselves, and it's glorious.

There's a bunch of new top rope routes in my gym, and I'm trying out all the 5.7-5.9s. 5.10s are beyond me, but I think that Lior will soon be doing 5.10s. She's pretty amazing.

[emperor]

Cool. I'd like to climb more than once a week, but the wall's a bit far for that to be practical.

[wpadmirer]

My gym is 10 minutes away, 15 if traffic is bad. I'm very fortunate.

[emperor]

I *almost* got my project route clean. Maybe next time!

[wpadmirer]

YAY! I have a couple of projects, and neither of them are going that well. (sigh) So I cheer for you!

[rydra_wong]

Fingers crossed!

[rydra_wong]

I have glee because of what is stated in the title of this post (assuming Google translated it correctly).

Also I bought my first nut key.

[wpadmirer]

Cool! I have no idea where that is, but any time you get to climb someplace new is good.

[rydra_wong]

Basically: Llanberis is the epicentre of climbing in North Wales, which is one of the greatest and most history-rich climbing areas of the UK.

It'd be a bit like saying, in a US context, "I went to Yosemite for the first time".

And I was there doing a five-day trad course (finally made it on one!).

Whence much glee. *g*

[wpadmirer]

Very cool, then! I figured it was in Wales, but beyond that, had no notion. So now I'm more educated about UK climbing!