This line traverses long, open side of the big, quarried slab. You can start it from either side, but starting from the left leave the crux at the end and a nice climax to the line. Using good compressions and horrible feet, move your way along the side of the block until the nice, grippy lip rounds out to a big, wide spread on smooth pockets. The last hold is bomber, so once you get the crux, slap onto the nice jug and be stoked.

Grand Traverse

Maze Runner

Nipple Cream

Flip The Lip

Flight of the Nuthatch (The Unveiling?)

Flight of the Nuthatch (crouch)

Broken Wing

North Side Slabby

Squat start the steeply undercut arete using the pedestal for feet, and head up and out onto the slabby face to top out.   

  This is sort of a one and a half star route, but it is a good warm-up for other better problems on the same boulder.

Sit start matched on a thin crimp bar, and move up and right to several crimpy sidepulls before slapping left hand to the good flake and topping out up the arete.

Sit start the right side of the lip, and traverse all the way left and top out. This is a really good warm-up.

This is one of the most well-rounded and consistently challenging lines in the area!  

  Sit start using an okay edge under the roof, and very challenging feet. Using a remarkable combination of technical footwork, finger strength, flexibility, balance, and body tension, make a tough move around the lip to a small crimp and try to keep your feet on. Adjust and find a good crimp above the lip with your left. Adjust again, and make a reach to a good crimp that will allow you to get past the lip (crux), and finish up the easy slab arête.  

  Once on top, take a nap on the sunny platform (optional) before hopping off at the start of the Grand Traverse. 

  A squat start that begins on the two opposed, slanting crimps above the lip is a good variation that goes around V4/5.

The sit/crouch start to Flight of the Nuthatch begins just under the lip. Reach up to the two opposite slanting crimps, get your feet on, and fire for the good crimp with the right hand. Choose your own adventure from here. It goes at about V4-5. 

  If you sit all the way under the roof with a matched start on the crimp rail, it goes at V7.

Stand start with a good left crimp and a solid slap on the right arete.

Make the three quick yet thin slab moves, grab the lip, and top out.

Plateau Boulder is a sizable block about 10 feet to the right of the Little Agassiz Boulder.

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Routes in Plateau Boulder