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Description:© (Atrax)

Also known as 'Layback' slabs, this boulder is the obvious stand-alone boulder on the left of the path

Approach:© (Atrax)

Right opposite 'Four Cracks Wall' and obvious as you walk in. 'Problems' described anticlockwise round the boulder from the descent route (problem #1)

Ethic: inherited from North Shore

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Routes

RouteGradeStylePopularity
1 1

Hands-free up the trackside staircase, doubles as descent route

V1
Boulder
2 2

Up the narrow face. No sides

V0
Boulder
RouteGradeStylePopularity
3 3

Layback the right arete of the boulder face.

V2
Boulder
4 4

Smearing up the overlaps left of the arete

V2
Boulder
5 * 5

There's a trick to this one. Up the next set of overlaps

V1
Boulder
6 * 6

Start as for #5, but go straight up avoiding the large holds on the right

V4
Boulder
7 *** 7

Layback and undercling the long overlap to the finish of #5

V6
Boulder
8 * 8

Up the overlaps using a flexy flake at the top

V2
Boulder
9 ** 9

Up using the vertical overlap above the white polished slab. Slopey edge near top.

V2
Boulder
10 * 10

Layback the next overlap along, diagonally right.

V3
Boulder
11 * 11

Start on low broken undercling, then deviously attain the face and the good holds therein

V3
Boulder
12 ** 12

From broken undercling, reach/slap the sloping lip, then over and up using the right arete

V5
Boulder
13 ** 13

Again from the broken undercling, traverse left below slopey lip and get established round on the left side of the block

V7
Boulder
14 *** The Nose

Start standing on the left side of the block. Drop down and traverse the slopey nose to end up on the right side.

V3
Boulder
15 Circumnavigatory Traverse

Anti-clockwise traverse of the boulder (stays below top). Hard traverse on the back end of the boulder.

V6
Boulder
16 The Nose linked into 7.

Traverse The Nose then right and down through overlaps to link up with problem 7.

V7
Boulder
17 The Nose linked into 12
V3
Boulder
18 The Nose linked into 5
V5
Boulder
19 The Nose linked into 3
V6
Boulder
20 The Not Over the Top Traverse

Traverses the block (Hermit's Cave) right-to-left staying just below the top

V3
Boulder
21 Sit-start to 7
V6
Boulder
22 Sit-start to 7 linked into 5
V4
Boulder
23 Sit start to 7 linked into 3
V4
Boulder
24 The Last Great Line
V7
Boulder
25 The Last Great Line Sit-start
V7
Boulder