This climb is vicious. Beta is coming, so stop reading if you don't want it.    Keith broke the original starting foot and banged his chin so now the foot is a couple inches closer to your hand. It makes the first move that much more difficult. From there you hit this wierd sloper undercling bulge in a slab power move and shift your feet to two high bad poppy feet. Then you go super balanced and slow to a high really poor invisible crimp. From there I turn my right foot into the starting goodish crimp and get a toehook hand match on the wild bulge. I found this to really be the only way to get that hand off without going off balance. My arms are at full extension pretty much here. I then got my left hand to a thumbercling intermediate in another bump power move that makes you splutter and quake. I was shut down on the topout. There are just these heinous flat slopers and then a little tiny two finger crystal crimp. I think the next move is a deadpoint to these two good holds and then you top out.  

  This is one of the hardest slab boulders in the US.  

The Voodoo Child

The Worm

Its Rio Time

Joe Six Pack

Jamie has a Gun

Joe The Plumber

Sushi-Don

The Leak

A decent slab climb on the trailside face next to the right arête. Climb it with your hands or for more fun, and a good way to stay warm in the colder months, see if you and your buddies can make it to the top by running up. An old Brett Meyers test piece.

Start sitting with the right hand on a low sidepull and the left hand on whatever you can come up with. Figure out where to put your feet- not as obvious as it first seems. Pull off the ground, slap higher on the right arete and then work your way up the slabby scoop using the arete and good footwork.  

  A very Pawtuckaway kind of experience.  

  Probably doesn't get climbed much, but it's actually quite good.

A good problem that is perhaps not as classic as ARP. (And maybe not that much harder??) Sit start and burl up underclinging the crack until you can get a left hand side pull higher in the crack.  Work your right hand up the right arete and left up the crack with some fancy footwork until you can pull onto the slab right of the arete.  Delicately lieback the arete up the slab to the top.

Start on positive crimps as you would for Joe The Plumber, make a tough move to a crimp up and right. High step and get established in the seam then follow the seam right to top out with A.R.P.

A decent little squeeze problem. Crouch start with you RH at the bottom of the vertical sloper rail and your LH with a good crimp around the arête. Bump your RH up the rail a bit and make an awkward foot scrunch. Grab a weird LH sloper before matching the rail. Make a long lock off to a decent finger lock over the lip and top out.

Another Rio Problem, and in this case, it's another classic.  Dynamic movement up a crimpy bulge with technical feet.  Start low with two good crimps and a crappy right foot.  Toss up right (crux) to a good incut and bring your left hand up to the other hold on the left.  Pull out right to a crimp, then work your way over the bulge using a left hand gaston and the slopey arete on the right.  Once you reach the jugs, finish up to the top.

One of the three easier (sub V5) climbs on the boulder and also the downclimb. 

  On the backside of the boulder, stand start on good crimps and make powerful moves up and left on positive crimps, to an easy top out. The crux is the first move. 

  This is the downclimb for the boulder so if you dont think you can reverse the moves it might be best not to go to the top.

Stand start the arête to the left of ARP and follow the arête up via slopers. Cooler temps and lower humidity should make this little guy feel a grade or so easier

The Fisherman Boulder (also known as the Fundy Boulder) sits along the Fundy Trail near the back of Fundy Cove.  While it is a solitary boulder, it's well worth the walk.  Rio Rose put up a number of problems years ago when he discovered Blair, and it was recently recleaned and more new lines were put up.  Don't miss ARP and if you're strong, test out your shoes on Voodoo Child (The Big Squeeze).

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