Stand start with an obvious high sloper and a left hand incut slot crimp down and to the left. Find a foot and stand up to slopers at the lip of the boulder, match, then figure out how to topout. The topout may be the crux.The right hand starting hold is not on the lip of the boulder but a foot or two below it. It is probably around the 6 foot mark. It is an obvious friendly textured sloper.

Cake-Block

Unblocked

The Block Party

Under the Block

The Cock Block

Skipping the Bull

The Block Problem

Ripping the Bull

Knock Your Block Off

Start low with a right hand slot undercling under the roof and the left hand on a small mini pinch/ undercling on the lip. (It is used as a foothold in "Knock Your Block Off". Once you figure out where you want your left foot, the right hand start hold doesn't do much. (Think heel-toe cam!) 

  Figure out how to get off the ground and make a few hard moves up on good holds. Find what beta works for you and get established on the slab(Crux). From here take your time and reach up to a jug in a crack and match. Make one more committing lock off to a jug on the lip.

Unblocked is a logical variation to the Block Problem, using as much of the Block as possible for a fun and natural feeling line that climbs great and is definitely not an eliminate. Climb the Block Problem into The Cock Block, and then finish as per Knock Your Block Off/The Block Problem. A right kneebar pad will go a long way in making the start feel reasonable.Could be pretty easy for a V7 as far as fingers go. It’s core intensive and sustained.

Sit start on the horizontal seam, make a long move up to the cool sloper/pinch hold, arrange your feet around and move you left hand up to the pod in the vertical seam, possibly using some small holds along the way. Then go for the top. The crux is opening move through establishing in the pod in the vertical crack.  

  The sloper/pinch hold is one of the coolest holds in Rumney bouldering. It feeling like gripping an oversized softball.

Sit start just left of the The Block Problem (V9). Using a jug with your right hand and a sloper and a thumb catch with you left. Make a long move to a good hold straight up. Match then move way out right to a rail then top out. I found the key to this problem is having your feet in the right place think heels and back steps. 

  The route felt soft but it is listed in the guide book as V6 so I posted it as the book has it listed. 

  Up and right of the umbrella boulder.

Sit or squat start with a right hand sidepull found on the sloping right arete and a small left hand crystal crimp. Pull on to the wall and do a hard move up lefty to an ear, then smack up the arete and go for the top.This problem is a lower start to "Ripping the Bull" but climbed completely differently.

Sit start low in a sort of ditch with a crimpy left hand and a slopey right hand, from here move up to another sloper then get in a stance and dyno for a shelf that as a decent lip, from here work up through easier holds to meet up with The Cock Block and top out there.

Stand-start with a high small right hand sloping crimp to the left of the arete, and the left hand on a bad sloping left hand crimp lower and left on the face. Pull on with a large foothold and dyno to the lip of the boulder. Grab the slopers and topout easily.

The best line on the block. Squat start with both hands on a good jug  on the right side. Pick some feet out right and make a large move to the clam shell crimp. Heel hook by your hand and bump your right hand up a series of slopers until you are in a good position to float your feet to the left. Once settled make long move to the left arete and squeeze up to the top.

Host to a few good problems with room for a lot more potential on this boulder and the one just to it's right. The climbing is concentrated on the first face you see when walking up the trail, but take your time and scrub something and you will find many new routes.

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