climbing 10s

[hermionesviolin]

One of the walls at the gym I climb at got reset a few weeks ago, and I'd climbed one of the new routes a couple times and found it challenging but in a good way.

thedeadparrot and I climbed last night and they had finally labeled that route, and it's a 5.10-. Since coming back from pandemic-induced break from climbing, I've mostly been climbing 5.8s and 5.9s, so that was exciting.

I then decided to try a 5.10- that D had climbed last time and which I had opted not to do, in part because she had struggled at the midpoint. (She's generally a stronger climber than I am.) I successfully did it \o/

There was one point (before where she had struggled) where she explained to me what the move was, and since that didn't seem doable to me, I tried my climbing brand of brute forcing it -- which almost worked (D said she thought it would have worked if I had leaned more) and did get me to a place where I could complete the move.

I told Thom about this after I got home, and she was like, "I'm shocked that you have a brand of solving climbing problems by being like, 'This is hard; what if I just hard harder?' " I was like, "You mean how I'm like, 'What if I can accomplish this thing by sheer force of will?'?"

I said something about how sometimes the move will be a complex and nuanced thing and I'm like, "But what if I brute force it?" and Thom was like, "I think you mean complex and subtle -- and subtlety is overrated." (We have a long-standing ~joke about how I am Not Subtle, to which I say that, "Subtlety is overrated.")

Thom: "Elizabeth is not a wizard; quick to anger but not subtle."
me: "I think we looked this up and 'subtle' means something different. But I don't remember what it means, and I respect the joke." (For anyone who cares, this is what it means.)

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[lunabee34]

*high five*

Achievement unlocked!

[meat_and_breath]

(For anyone who cares, this is what it means.)

Nerd. 😍