Start with hands matched on a good left facing edge 7 feet off the ground. Finish as the Goldstone Traverse

Goldstone Layaway

Goldstone Traverse

Dislocator Roof

Depantser

Black Boulder Lay-back

Black Boulder Problem

Black Boulder Left

Naked Convulsions

Tweedledee

Just Another Problem in the Trapps

Patrick's Pinch

Black Boulder Crack

Arm Eater Crack

Did That One Years Ago

Lynn Hill Traverse

Tweaky Crack

Start with hands somewhere in or around the pebbly slot, and a left heel hook. Left hand bid high and over your head for the decent crimp. One more intermediate crimp before you can match on the jug at the end of the diagonal. Crimp your way up left on the face until the next horizontal and then top out up using the arete and anything else.beta video here: youtu.be/fKjaPXTnRJw?t=343

Start with both hands matched on a right rising, pebbley jug. Traverse right on the obvious rightward trending holds. Use some heel hooks and slippery feet to power your way through increasingly better holds. The problem is finished with a no hands kneebar in the chimney. You can also top out the chimney at 5.4 I believe.

A short distance down the road from the Black boulder, you will find a jumbled pile of three boulders.  On the right-hand side of the pile, you will see two low boulders, with a third resting on top which forms a roof that juts out two feet or so above the lower rocks.  Start with your hands on the sharp flake of the left-hand lower boulder near where it intersects the lower right boulder.  After getting your feet up, use the holds on the roof boulder to top out directly above (crux).

Start matched on a jug on the lower left side of the sloping bolulder. Slap and heel hook your way right toward an obvious crack and top out. Watch out of the tree branches when turning the lip - it's a de-pantser after all.

Use the series of flakes and cracks to move from the lower right-hand side of the Black boulder to the top center and top out

Greasy in the sunshine, best in cool temps.  The crux is a right-hand sloper.

Variation from the GUNKS APP: V6 

  Follow the typical black boulder route.  

  Left variation: Top out to the left rather then straight above. So after hitting big right hand sloper.. get left hand thumb catch. match and go straight up left on a sloper and an eventual decent crimp

Start with your hands on the triangular hold underneath the roof, move up and left through the roof to top out.

From the upward facing flake at the left-hand side of the central Pebbles boulder, climb up the two vertical cracks up to the rose colored rock 15 feet up.  Be very careful on the descent.  I find it easiest to drop to a pad.  The downclimb to the left or continuing to the top both seem like a recipe for disaster.

Start with both hands on the flake 6 feet off the ground.  Move up using holds to the left and right until your feet are on the starting hold.  The real difficulty is finding feet on the steep slick face below the starting hold.  I had my right foot on holds in the small crack to the right most of the way up.

The old school carriage road pinch problem test piece, established by a legend.

Layback the crack that moves up the center of the Black boulder and topout.

As I pried my arm free from the sharp pebbles of Arm Eater Crack and scrambled above the lip feeling the sting of my newly installed flapper, I realized that there wasn't any down climb and wondered aloud, "Why the fuck did I climb this pile of junk?"  If you really don't want to heed my warning, start with your hands low in the leftmost crack on the left Pebbles boulder.  Jam up to the lip using whatever you want for feet.  Pull the lip and get your feet up.  Best of luck finding your way down.

Start matched on a sloper (same as tweedledee) about 3 feet up on the left side of a large boulder with a tweaky crack on the right arête. Climb left to right to access the tweaky crack, and top out.

The right side of the Pebbles boulder abuts another rock, forming a small dihedral.   

  From a sit start (optional) climb the face and crack to the left of the without using the rock that forms the right side of the dihedral.  Top out directly above near the stump of the tree mentioned in Greene and Russo's guide. 

  This route gets V3 in the Greene and Russo guide, but is measurably easier than any of the other V3s and several of the V2s on the Pebbles boulders. 

  Also see Rich Goldstone's comments under the photo.

The Pebbles Boulders are easy to find as you walk north on the Undercliff Road.  Two hundred feet past the Uberfall outhouse are three large boulders to the left below Dennis and Jackie.  The rocks have come to a rest on their sides, causing their horizontals to be verticals.  This atypical feature does make the climbing here somewhat unique.  The Black boulder can be found a short distance past these three upended boulders.  This area has a few mega-classic problems (aside from The Buddha (V7), is there another problem that gets as much traffic as the Black Boulder Problem (V5)?) and quite a few forgettable or unpleasant things to work on--Im looking at you Arm Eater (V1) and Hand Eater Crack (V1).

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Routes in Pebbles Boulders