The test piece of Devil's Den bouldering, complete with a fingertip crack, non-existent feet, and a hard crux.  Sit start at the left end of the crack on the two good crimps and traverse right until the crack disappears.  Make a hard move up and right to gain the next crack, either with a heinous cross or an easier dyno and continue right into better holds.

Ashes To Ashes

Diamonds to Dust

Crushing Blow

Naughty Devil Chick

A Moment Of Light

Charon's Journey

Borealis

Bridge of Immortals

Throng

Initial Harmony

Scala

Devil's Right

This is another excellent addition to the Devil's Den scene, especially if you like crimpy, technical and tenuous highballs.  

  Start standing beneath the tall face with both hands matched on an obvious incut flake at 5 feet. Use a few small crimps to the gain the right facing feature above. Then use good footwork and lots of body tension to reach decent holds in the higher right facing feature (crux). A few more moves lead to the top and a fairly easy finish. 

  This is a 3 star line for aesthetics, but the rock is still a little flakey. This should clean up with more traffic, so hopefully people will get on it. A big thanks goes out to all the people that put effort into cleaning this line over the last year or so! Those efforts helped make this line a reality.

Sit start with a left sidepull and with the right hand on the arete. Squeeze and smack up the arete before making a hard move up to a good hold. From here continue up the arete with some tricky feet and make a long reach to the lip. Once on the sloping lip, match and topout. Note: there is a positive dike feature out left on the lip.

Sit start with two underclings. Make a hard pull off the ground and smack up to the sloping arete. Match the arete then power up and right to the sloping lip and then top out on decent holds above the slab.

Sit start with a left hand sloper pinch on the arete, and a high right hand crimp. Pull on and make a fun move up to a good meathook/ pinch. From here follow the arete up and right on slopers. 

  Starting with a low right hand could increase the difficulty quite a bit.

This problem uses two different boulders. Sit start on the fin-like arete underneath the roof. Pull on and move up the arete before reaching out left to the lip of the cave. Traverse this sloping lip leftwards before grabbing a few unique pockets and executing an awkward mantel before reaching up to jugs and finishing at the apex of the boulder. A great way to warm up for harder problems in the Den.

Stand start on the right-leaning tall arete and climb it using technical footwork and core. Execute a few fun balance power moves a few feet off the deck. Until better holds near the top can be reached.

 An excellent problem that receives little attention.

 Apparently, a sit-start does go, but it is quite awkward, and the feet are poor. By the looks and feel of it, the sit is around V8.

One of the proudest lines at Pawtuckaway. This incredible arete towers over every other boulder in Devil's Den. Stand start matched on the arete and layback off of the boulder above the chasm. Pull on to the wall and make committing moves between small edges and sloper knobs found along the laser-cut arete. A lot of core tension, precise footwork and a good head leads to a very committing end sequence. Stab at the perpendicular arete then rock over onto the slab using a spicy, insecure heel hook.

In comparison to most of the problems in Devil's Den, this one is a lowball.  It climbs up an overhanging triangular shaped face with two aretes and is a good way to ease into the grade.  Sit start with left hand on a blocky feature and right hand on the right arete.  Pull up and heel hook with your right foot to bump your hand up the arete.  Bump your left hand up to the next sidepull block and either make a lot of little moves or one big move to gain the jug on the arete up and left.  A dropknee may be helpful.  Follow the arete to topout in the ferns. 

  Occasionally a lagoon of sorts forms beneath the problem.

Sit start the aesthetic vertical arete with the right hand on a good sidepull found on the face, and the left hand pinching the arete. Pull on and layback the arete on pinches before hitting a sloper at the lip and committing to a mantle.

This is an outstanding arete climb that is unfortunately marred by its location and landing. 

  Start standing in the muddy area at the base and reach high with your right hand to find a pinch that works for you. Then use an undercling pinch with your left hand. Paste a foot somewhere and attempt to pull off the ground, fighting a vicious barndoor that tends to swing you towards the Dust Boulder. If you manage to get yourself off the ground, bump the left hand to a good edge (or the top) and reach with your right for a good pinch where the lip and arete meet. Then figure out a way to mantel the slabby pedestal. Once standing on the pedestal, press on for a few tenuous moves, with complete disregard for your safety. Or perhaps more smartly, bail to the top of the nearby boulder. 

  Now the downsides: 

  The base of this climb is often submerged, but seems to dry out after a few weeks without rain, particularly in the late summer through fall.  

  Unfortunately, one of the difficulties of this climb is to avoid dabbing the Dust Boulder (particularly on the start) since it is in such close proximity.  

  Lastly, once you have attained the lip of the boulder, falling is basically not an option as you would likely fall directly onto the sharp arete of the boulder behind you. So you should feel pretty confident at the grade if you are going to attempt this line. 

  All of that being said, this climb is quite good and is very worth of your attention! If it's dry, climb it!!

This is a great arete climb that teaches a lot of fundamentals for outside climbing, especially for Pway! 

 Stand-start the left-leaning arete and pick some feet to pull on to. Using core and some foot smears, follow the arete up to improving holds at the top. The top-out is pretty easy, but the downclimb is a bit dirty and covered in lichen, a fall from the downclimb could be dangerous.

This area includes the massive Dust to Dust Boulder, the smaller Flea Boulder, and the incredible Immortals Boulder.

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Routes in Ashes to Ashes/ Bridge of Immortals Area