Start just around corner just right of

Beached Whale

on the Kahuna Boulder. Sit start in small alcove with a good right foot and good starting hand holds. Move up to an okay pocket left hand and bust left again to the arete. Move up and right to the right-leaning seam. Small feet make these move spicy. A bad match in the seam allows you to drop right hand to a good mailbox slot. Keep your head together and pray your feet don't shake off of the small footholds and move your way up on good holds to the top. It has a bad landing, so use lots of pads!! Scott Blunk did the F.A. for stand start, great find!! "In a Pickle."

Tickle My Pickle

Super Chief

Beach Crack

Kahuna Roof

Big Pickle

Beached Whale

Speed Trap

Big Kahuna Burger aka Maui Waui

Snake Eyes

Water Way Campus

A short but stout problem.  Snake Eyes starts with your right hand in one of Super Chief's starting holds.  Move left towards the obvious double pocket and top out.

A fun and challenging line just left of

Kahuna Roof

. This low-start begins on a non-existant right hand crimp, and a low, left hand sloper (grab the one that feels like the more natural starting hold). Punch up through big slappy slopers (crux) to an easier top-out.

This stellar problem is located on the blunt prow to the left of the Kahuna Roof.  The line is very obvious - follow the crack right and up to a moderate topout.  I did a sit-down start, seemed like the most logical way to do it.  I found it quite sequential.

This problem was something of a grudge match for me a couple years ago - I sent it by myself on a cold winter day.  The topout was covered in a couple inches of snow, as was the talus below.  I had to find and dig out holds as I topped out - certainly added a level of excitement.

This is is perhaps the most ultra-classic problem at Carter Lake, and is practically a destination by itself.  It's located on the steepest overhanging side of the Kahuna boulder.  Start with your hands matched on the large half-moon hold, find a way to stick the sloping shelf a few feet up, and then crank a couple more solid moves to top out.  Like much of the rest of Carter, it's on fantastic rock, the landing really couldn't be any better, and the moves are truly spectacular.  Definitely one of the Front Range's best problems.

This is a great route that is located in the same spot as the

Beach Crack

. Basically instead of following the

Beach Crack

out to the right you go straight up on tiny crimps. Start with a left hand on a good hold at the edge of the shoulder height hueco and a right hand on a crimp in the rail that is right above the hueco. High step and throw for a tiny crimp up and right with your right hand. Figure out a way to get your left hand up to a crimp above this. Unbelievably, the crux is still yet to come and involves shifting your weight to gain the better holds at the top. After you get to the good holds, you can exit right and top out.

Start on a big jug climb up to the arete, then use a few crimps to gain the lip.  Reach back for a decent hold and try not to tear all of the skin off of your knees.  Walk off left.

Start matched on the thin crimp rail, bust right to a small incut crimp, hand foot match the start hold, and come into a terrible left hand crimp (crux). Grab the jugs and mantle.

Sandwiched between two great problems, this pleasant boulder problem sit starts to the right of

Beached Whale

on a good two-hand flat edge. Move up to good incuts and two slimping holds out left. Surf up into the sharp two-finger pocket and then to the lip. Walk off left. This is a tasty burger!

To my knowledge, this is undocumented. It feels about V5/6.

This problem is up and to the right of the V9 on Kahuna. You jump start to the slopers and campus yor way up, but when you get to the side pull you can use feet.

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