I will have to try some cream/goop of some sort, and I should also be better at filing down my callouses. I just got back from bouldering (first V2 in way more than six months, WOOT!), and while I taped two of the worst callouses as a precautionary measure, I still ended up ripping off a huge one on another finger. Bah!

Clearly the real solution is to get good enough that I'm not scrabbling so badly at the big, frictiony holds on the V1s, but in the meantime I've got to do something about my poor skin...