A fun and sweet feature very close to the car, definitely worth checking out. This faces the parking lot, I’m surprised it hadn’t been noticed. Sit start with a gaston for the right and a low spot on the arete for the left.  Climb rightwards along the arete and mantle on good holds.

Le Craguette

Mini Cooper

What Up Weasel

Catch Me If You Can

Tilted Boulder Slab

The One and Only

The Gift

Licking the Weasel

Tilted Face Project

Tilted Sloper Project

Smooth Operator

Dirty North

Upper Block

Corner Store

Spit out the Seeds

Sir Mix Alot

Suck on the Juice

Bordeaux

Weasel Warmup

Weasel Bite

Smooth Roof Project

North by Northwest

Bud White

Weasel in yo Pants

Funk Show Brother

Weasel Left

Starting right hand on jug and left hand on a cool pinch old on the arete, climb out the steep arete doing some awesome and fun moves then do an interesting topout above the boulder.

Start with a down pulling pinchy hold and a small gaston just next to it.  Gain a gaston and finish it up. 3 moves with my method.  Maybe a 1 star Boulder but a decent landing and easy access makes it cooler?

Start sitting underneath the steep prow with your left hand on the arete and your right on a smallish, but good edge.  Hard move to the jug, some compression moves and trickery, and go up the face on good edges and slopers.  A weasel skittered right by us as we were working the problem.

Start right hand in juggy hold and left hand low on a sprag like pinch sitting on a boulder and trick up the mini overhang onto the slab above.  Kind of a funny little problem that turned out to be quite scary due to the poor landing and potential to have a bad fall down the hill into the talus.  Some tricky moves.  Not amazing but maybe worth checking out if you're in the area.

Climb up slab face on north side of Tilted Boulder.

Start low matched on good undercling.  Work you way up and out boulder using foot trickery and raw power.  Lots of holds and really fun movement!   This problem would be 3 to 4 stars if the top-out wasn't so dabby. 

A nice short arete climb with a couple cool moves.  Sit start on 2 good deep crimps that are side by side to the left of the arete.

Same start as 'What Up Weasel'. Reach the good left hand above the lip (just as in What Up Weasel, see photo) then grab good right hand (underside of overhang) and launch for the prominent arete.  Work your way back (climbers) left up the arete avoiding the tree and topping out.

Pull on to the face, with a bitey right side pull left of the arete for the right hand, and an undercling for the left.  Establish, probably fire to a sloper on the lip then move right to the arete and finish it up.

From the left, trend right along the lip through cool and bad holds and finish up the right arete.

Stand start with good side-pulls and work your way up left to slopey arete, finish the slick top-out.  Super cool.

Start hugging both aretes just right of the tilted project and go straight up, staying on the face.

Climb the east face of the block right above Smooth Operator.

Start with left hand on sharp crimp and right on ok edge by corner.  Throw up a left heel-hook and matle up to good holds.  Tricky!

Start low under boulder with left hand on sharp crimp and right on large pinch under roof.  Bump your hands up the right corner of boulder and top-out.

Start from a stand on pads, left on a crimp sidepull with a thumb catch and right pinching the heck out of the arete just to the right.Pick a foot, and with difficulty and maybe a slight hop off the pad to get going, gain holds above and top out the arete.An elegant, pure and hard boulder with a distinct crux.  Shorter folks may need to stack pads.The sit or a lower start will be very difficult but it probably is all there.Also worth noting, jump start with right hand on the pinch for v9 probably.

From a sit on the obvious break in the center of the wall move up and right into the juggy flake feature and topout.

On right side of Weasel warmup face head straight up the face starting left hand on the slopey rail feature in the middle of the face and right hand out on the arete.  Tricky.

Start under a bulge and work up poor features to an easy topout.

From a stand with a ledge, climb the tall arete.  Pads and spotters recommended.  Tall and committing near the top.

Sit down start of Smooth Operator.    Start on slopey ledge down and right of the start to SO.  Bump out left to crack and get into the start of SO.  Top out same as SO

Left side of Weasel Warmup boulder.  Sit start by tree and do a tricky pull to crimps and top out up and right on big holds in the crack.  If you go direct up the face it is more sustained and according to reports better and checks in at a 4.

Start sitting with a left side pull and right slope.  Bust a tough move right then press/ mantle your way up.

Do the first move of What up Weasel and trend left around the corner.

A very accessible bouldering area on the northern most portion of the West Bluff! Approaches range from 30 seconds to less than ten minutes.  Smooth Operator, the namesake, is an old school V4, with a high and slick topout.  Sir Mix A lot and Le Craguette are a mere minute from the car and check in at V4. The Tilted Boulder has a cluster of fun, harder lines and very hard undone projects.  What Up Weasel is a favorite of the area too clocking in at V7 and has a number of enjoyable problems just next to it.  North by Northwest is an outstanding and fairly serious V2.

This area is definitely worth a visit!

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