On a Saturday in September, Hannah O’Connor and a couple of friends hiked into White Pine in Little Cottonwood Canyon (LCC) to go bouldering. Their main goal for the session: Project the V9 sit start of Nest Egg, a classic boulder with tension-y moves on a mix of slopers and crimps. “We were just messing around and warming up on the side of the boulder and my friend Weston hopped on Nest Egg,” O’Connor explains. When he made the notoriously hard first move with ease, he called Hannah over. “It feels different,” he told her, “it was chipped.” Two months…