This improbable line is on the far left side of the Calm Boulder. It is easily recognized by a three finger pocket at about 4 foot height. Start by grabbing a small sidepull with your left hand right above the pocket (the pocket is tempting, but trust me, it's easier with the sidepull), and a scoop/edge up and right with your right hand. Paste your left foot on nothing and heel hook out and right with your right foot. Now, without giving away too much, head up towards a TINY little crystal sticking out (it looks like a dog's canine) and eventually a nice jug near the top. This problem requires familiarity with needles climbing (I think), and the ability to be confident on really small holds. This will be a four star problem when the low sit-start is done, which starts on a low sloping ledge down and left of the pocket.

The Calm Before The Storm

Jumper

Wife's Wrath

Riders of the Storm

Baja

Jaba

The Perfect Storm

Mother Night

The low-start to Calm Before the Storm starts with both hands matched on the obvious lower left indented rail. From here move right (with difficulty) using a good pocket to gain the start holds for Calm. Work up through the light switch crystal as though climbing Calm Before the Storm. Finish for that problem. Excellent problem with tricky beta that includes an odd hand match in a pocket.

This problem is actually smack dab in the middle of the big boulder to the left of "Calm". Although the problem basically has only two moves, a jump and a slap, the holds that you grab and the uniqueness make it a great problem in my mind.    Start by jumping up to the two slopey holds at the lip that are probably about 8' up. From there, paste your feet on (or not) and slap up and left to the big, rounded jug to top out.

This problem is just about 6 ft. to the right of Calm Before the Storm and is recognizable by an obvious small rib sticking out at the top of the boulder. That's where you are heading.Start with a decent right hand crimp at about 6 ft. height and a high left hand sidepull edge. As with Calm, paste your left on and heel hook out and right with your right foot. From that position, pop with your left hand up and left to a bad pinch, swing your feet underneath you and fight up to the rib. You'll feel comfortable there, but that comfort quickly disappears when you try topping out.

It looks as if this has been cleaned before, so please tell me if someone has done it and the name will be changed! An amazing and powerful boulder on some of the best rock at baldy, this gem is only two moves long, but shouldn't be missed by anyone in the area. Starts low on an underling rail, and climbs into an amazing deadpoint to the lip on fine grained streaked granite. Likely easier for tall folks, would get four stars if it was just a little bigger. 

A variation on Jaba. Sit start as for Jaba, climb the seam. Work the slopers but instead of climbing straight up, make a large move for the jug far to the climber's right. Top out from this jug. I think this is a worthy variation and step up from Jaba that adds a more difficult move into the mix and allows you to work the seam as a foot feature more so than you would while climbing Jaba.

 Submitter's Dialog: If this already had a name, let me know, but I'm sure it's been done before so I do not claim the FA.

An area classic! Start sitting as low as you can matched on the undercling rail. Work left then straight over the lip to finish with a small jump for the finish jug. Very fun/short problem.

Sit start matched on the low left facing sidepull. One move to shallow crimp, big hard bump to sloper. Straight up then slightly right on techy crystals.

This is a nice cluster of quality problems on 3 main boulders. I've decided to put them all in one area, but they are divided into the Jumper boulder, the Calm boulder, and the Jaba boulder.

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Routes in The Calm Area