To the far left of the steep dark face, nearest to the dark, small "cave" opening. Find the humongous sculpted jug and sit start matched there. 

  Pull on and bump to any of several feint crimps to the higher right. Make a difficult lunge to the higher flake/jug with cool light colored stones in it. Gain the nearby left jug as well and continue up direct to finish through ripples.

Black Out

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Three Shades of Black

When looking at the dark, steep face to the right of the face the boulder drops down to a low steep undercut nose. Under this nose is an obvious, low, smooth, long slanted ledge. Sit start matched on the left side of the ledge with a right heel-hook nearby. 

  Pop up and left to a really nice jug and follow past more jugs to the lip (where there is likewise a jug/rail to the left). Top out above the jug rail.

This is a fairly cool little problem. 

  At the dark, steep face notice the low undercut near the low slab block at the bottom of the boulder. To the left (climbers left) of that nearby low block, find the very thin, long, low crimp rail to start matched on.  

  Sit start and pop up through thin crimps to lunge to the better, higher right edge. From there climb direct to the rounded but good holds to top out. 

Side Note: 3 Shades of Black is also the name of a terrible, terrible song. If you don't like the sound of screaming and odd metal music interjected into something close to a country song, skip the video. If your do or you're curious, here ya go: youtube.com/watch?v=GkzSyvC…

This cool, steeply overhung boulder has several quality problems on it. When I first put up the listed problems, the sun was setting and the steep face was dimly lit (almost black).

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