Stand start with your hands on a small ledge near a pink blotch of paint that angles up and to the left. Climb straight up onto face above. There is a high potential for sit start from the horizontal crack.

Pink Paint Problem

Ridge Ride

Left of PPP

Pink Paint Low Sit Direct

Painted Problem Extension

Stand start to the left of PPP. Your right hand is on a good hold near the PPP starting ledge. Your left hand is on a bad face hold. Get your feet on the lip, and go straight up to the slabby face above.

Ridge Ride has a fun sit start that scoots up the arete. Start with your hands matched low towards the bottom of the arete. Gain the two nubs midway up the arete. A long left hand throw to the crimp on the rock face (with or without an intermediary stop at the arete notch) leads to a meathook on the arete point before topping out.

Begin with a full sit start directly below PPP with your hands in the crack. Pull on using a heel on the sloping ledge. Move up to the left hand hold of PPP Extension, and then join the stand start of PPP. (I ended up climbing it in the dark. I will get a photo in the daytime next time I'm over there.)

This has two starting options: either standing with your right hand on the arete and your left hand at the clear crimp on the the low face (RED Xs) or a sit start with both hands matched near the base of the right arete (YELLOW Xs).

 The climb moves up and to the left, first matching the left hand start before a long throw to the ledge where PPP starts. From there, get a small crimp in the rock crack, and do a mantel push towards an undercling to gain the top.

A few dozen feet more down the path easterly is a good-sized boulder with red paint splashed on it. There is a horizontal hand crack the makes it easy to spot. Two really great problems live on this little cliff.

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Routes in Painted Boulder