The Spot with Warren

I met Warren at the gym at 3:30 p.m. and worked some problems. I did a 3-spot white/pink on the west face of the Font boulder onsight and then started working on the orange squiggle 4-spot problem. This problem is very hard. I've touched the final hold before, but not today.

We then worked the pink 4-spot on the south face of the Font. We could both touch a high hold, but couldn't stick it. Ferris tried this one as well with the same results. Then Warren had to go.

I rested for a bit and tried it again. This time I held the hold for a bit and fell off. I rested again for 5-10 minutes and then I hit the hold! I got my left foot up, hit the next hold, which is slopey, then grabbed another good hold over the top. The top-out is tricky, but I was committed to doing anything to make it after hitting that hold. I found a crimp way to the left and used it to get my foot up on the purple hold we were going for. Now I switched my left hand to just reaching straight back and palming as I stood up on the purple hold and sent it! Sweet! I didn't think that was going to happen.

Psyched, I went around to the other side and sent the green 5-spot problem on my second try. Nice. I'd done it before but couldn't make any progress on Friday. I still failed on the problem on the overhanging side, but I was wasted at this point.