You are listening to the Enormo cast.

The year is 2016.

We're still reckoning with the sudden mainstream interest in TCKJ and the dawn wall.

Climbing had been confirmed for the Olympics, and the whining about speed climbing was just getting ramped up.

Though his magnum opus silence remained in the future, Andra is tearing up 515, and J-Star

is too, just a little more quietly, as is his way.

TikTok innocently appears in September, and we remain blindly unaware of what a social media climbing influencer is.

But perhaps the most groundbreaking climbing leap in 2016, at least according to this commercial,

the introduction of the Sportiva Squama. So futuristic, it remains cutting edge 10 years on. No one thought a high-performing

shoe could handle all terrain and feel this good doing it. Yet there it was, in our hands,

on our feet, and nestled in our souls like a little baby bird quietly cooing.

In to mark this monumental moment in climbing history,

Sportiva has introduced a celebratory color scheme for the 2026 Squama,

while retaining its essential nature as the baddest shoe in the land.

So go back to the future and head over to Sportivana.com or your favorite local shop

and check out any permutation of the legendary squama and then

ask yourself one thing.

What would you do for the send?

Listen, uh, uh, where are you playing in town?

Are you playing here?

We're doing the, uh, the Normo dome, whatever it is.

It's terrific.

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