Sorry no pictures or video yet, but a quick little trip report from Tahoe.
Last Friday, Keenan, Danielle and I headed up to Welcome to the Future. With an incoming winter storm, and wind gusts expected to reach 50mph, we knew that time was not on our side. Heading out from Davis around 8:45, we made excellent time to the boulder, taking around 2 hours to the parking lot.
Me: Should we head over to the warmup boulders first?
Keenan: No way, we are going to need all of our strength to do this thing.
His logic was sound, so we headed straight to Welcome to the Future.
First of all, if you haven't checked this thing out yet, you should. It is a beautiful line, with a good balance of technique, balance, power, and thuggery.
Here's a link to a video by Ian Cotter-Brown which features it:
Tahoe Sending - by Ian Cotter-Brown
We started chalking up the holds, trying to remember the tricky beta of the opening moves on the sit-start. It took us a few burns, but finally had it dialed to where we were throwing the right heel-hook to prepare for the last hard move.
The brutal cold, however, meant that we could only give it a few goes before huddling back into jackets and regular shoes.
With clouds moving in, and small drifts of snow starting, time was nearly up.
We started working the problem from the stand start, trying to remember the nuances of that thuggy right hand move off of the heelhook, but just couldn't make it happen. Almost to the point of wondering how we had both done it from the stand-start before.
With hopes diminished we packed up, leaving the project for another day.
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