A relatively tall and delicate warm-up problem.

Herman

Death Star

Fly Like an Ego

Blood Moon

Harvest Moon

This large boulder is just to the right of the famous Boxcar boulder. Death Star begins on the right side of the face, and climbs through the relatively featureless white slab.  

  Step up onto a narrow ledge, and start the problem with both hands in the good horizontal crack. Choose from among several small pebbles for feet, and reach up and right to a tiny, sharp crimp. Continue working up pebbly feet til you can stand up and reach the top.

Start low on a right hand pinch with your left on the arete. Climb the arete and face moving right to a pebbly crimp. Fly to a flat edge a few feet up, then top out.

Start on a good curved sloper crimp hold in the middle of the boulder's face (same start as Harvest Moon). Climb up to the horizontal crack, then follow the line of diagonal holds up and left to the top-out.

Start on a good curved sloper crimp hold in the middle of the boulder's face (same start as Blood Moon). Climb straight up and top out directly above the start, on the bowl-shaped slab.

The Herman Boulder is just to the right of the Boxcar Boulder on the carriage road in the Gunks. It has a large bowl-shaped scoop in the middle.  

  Three problems: Fly Like an Ego V9, Yo-Yo Ma V4, and Herman V0, were the first to be established on the Herman Boulder. These problems can be found in Ivan Greene's guide book.  

  In late 2012, the large, main face of the boulder was found to be totally covered in lichen, with wild plant growth on top of the boulder. The face was cleaned, and three new lines were established: Blood Moon V2, Harvest Moon V2, and Death Star V5.

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Routes in Herman Boulder