Horseshoe...

Well, today we ended up just sticking around closer to Compton, and Wayne's house, which put us at Horseshoe again. I was pretty cool with it too, although I did a have a few things that I would have liked to finish at Fontaine Red.

Anyways, the weather was gorgeous and it was an awesome day to go and work on ticking off a few of the things I put on my list. The morning started with us cruising up to the warm-up boulder, and quickly getting our muscles worked out and ready for a day of some hard sending. Directly after that Wayne spotted an interesting V6 on a boulder directly behind us called Static Tang. The line starts on two crummy crimps and pops out to a gaston with your left. From there you do you a hand foot match with your rights, and then bring your right hand over to the gaston. Next, you pull up hard onto the foot and nail a pretty decent 3/4 pad crimp with your right, get your feet righted up and hit another 3/4 pad crimp and throw to the top. Pretty sick problem and everyone made pretty quick sends of it. I was surprised and sent it second go!

Next, we headed over to the Leatherface boulder and I worked at a few of the moves on Leatherface V7, a cool problem on my ticklist. Not feeling too psyched on it, I ended up thrutching my way through Chainsaw V4, another problem on my ticklist! Sweet! Day one back at HCR and I've already dented the to-do list. After this we headed over and worked a few problems that I just wasn't feeling and towards the end of the day I found my self back a Trouser Chili V4 (on the tick list for '09). This problem gave me a helluva time earlier in the trip and it proceeded to to so again. I worked the beta from the end though and found a cool sequence that worked and was able to put it all together right as the sun finished setting.

Pretty sweet day I'd say. I've already been able to make a decent dent in the things to-do list, and I'm going to be on my way out of HCR tomorrow for Murray. I do have plans to hit up a few problems tomorrow morning for my last dose. Hopefully I'll have some good luck and will leave HCR in high spirits!