This problem starts on the left side of the boulder. Start on an undercling with feet sort of spread apart. Move the left hand to a worse undercling, but this will give you the space needed to make a huge, but still balancy and static move to a pretty good crimp. From there, take hold of another crimp with the left hand and move up and slight right.

In the picture, this will be the leftmost route with the pink swirls.

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Weapon of Walt

Long and Winding Road

Ruffian

Hot Diggity

Real Reptilian

Scorpion Bark

Shin Guard

Dubai Nights

Stuck in the Middle

Thorn in the Flesh

Sit start shared with

Scorpion Bark

. From the jagged, diagonal feature, traverse right across the dashed edges and finish up

Thorn In The Flesh

.

Sit start with a left hand on the arete and a right hand on a good sidepull. From there, bump the left up to a small crimp on the arete, then stand up and gain the two incut edges, follow with a right hand pinch (crux?), work the feet up, use a left hand undercling (crux?), slap the right further up the arete, and top it out using the positive bumps.

I'm not sure if it makes a difference with the difficulty, but I avoided the rock out right of the problem (where

Shin Guard

climbs) and stayed true to the arete.

Stand start with edges six feet off the deck. From there, gain an undercling pinch, then work through edges to reach an easy finish.

Sit start with hands in two large pockets.  Make a move to a great jug on the arete.  From there, work the arete all the way up on positive bumps and/or crimps and top it out.

Sit start with hands compressing the opposing aretes. From there, slap a left up the arete to a small edge, follow with a right up high to a sloping bump, lock a right heel hook, gain the big left hand jug (crux), work the feet up, and finish off the slab using an assortment of bumps.

Sit start with hands on any of the numerous edges that mark the diagonal shelf. From there, pull up to a pair of good edges, then work a pinch and crimp to gain the false lip (crux), make a big reach to the good edges behind the lip, and top it out.

Starting under the bulge of the south face, move up and over the bulge. The real fun is staying true to the bulge with both your hands and feet and avoiding the other sections of rock.

Pictures are coming soon.

Sit start with a left hand pinch-edge and a jagged right hand edge. From there, gain and match on a pair of edges above, stick a bump before the lip, then mantel on top.

Update: Added a sit start to the problem on 04.23.17. Feel like it increased the difficulty by a grade.

Start to the right of

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. Move up through some sharp crimps and aim for the pocket with horn bump, it's not very deep but nicer than those crimps. From there, there are good holds to the topout.

Start on two sidepulls for both the left and right hand. Make a big move, and keep your balance, to a crimp above your left hand sidepull. From there, move slight right following some crimps and slopers. There's a huge "X" on top of the boulder. Top out beside there.

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