TR: Tres Romantique

V-Day special: another early evening trip to TRC with G and Evangeline, who's really progressing well. She worked a bunch of climbs in the 5.7-5.9 range. She's particularly good at off vertical slab, getting her feet really high and staying in balance. Emphasizing the mantra of working one's deficiencies, she also tried some more overhanging stuff, with a focus on awareness about footwork.

G and I worked mostly TR today, but it felt like a strong work session:

TR: 5.10, 5.11, 5.11
lead: 5.11
TR: 5.12

Despite an inauspicious warmup (really pumpy and non-obvious overhanting 10, we both took a hang right before the anchors), both 11 TR routes went up relatively easily. The first was a short vertical problem in the back, small holds and crimps, balancey but with stems and decent rests. The second was the long vertical sequencey 11 that gave us fits last week, but with the right beta linking the moves together was straightforward.

The 11 lead was fun, burly, and ended kind of oddly: overhanging up underneath the big arch, big exit moves with a foot out R, then a slightly overhanging traverse left on mediocre holds and tiny feet before finally heading up to the anchors. Toughest part was the last clip at the end of the traverse. The 12 TR was good, thoughtful climbing; I couldn't stick the crux move (off balance R-hand throw off crimps and tiny foot jibs for a far, far crimp), but G sure did.

Nice climbing tonight, plan for next session: multiple leads of routes in our range (9-10).