Start low if you can on small crimps and sidepulls. Go up and right with a long throw to join Giant Slayer near the top

Spirit Of Stone

Donkey Kick

A Stone's Throw Away

Saul's Traverse

Triumph With A Sling

Wake Up Call

Gates Of Ekron - Left Sit Start

Gates of Ekron - Right Sit Start

Reap What You Sow

Giant Slayer

Six Cubits and a Span

Rude Awakening

The Gates of Ekron

Trying Hard to Cling

Golyats Revenge

Sit start on opposing side pulls in the same spot as Donkey Punch and Goliath's Revenge. Move up and right to get opposing sloper sidepulls, then a desperate move to a good flat crimp WAY out right on the overhang. Set up and bust a huge dyno to a hidden gaston near the highest point of the boulder. Finish at the highest point.

This is another eliminate but it takes a different path and uses mostly different holds from Goliath's Revenge. Definitely worth it for the finishing move alone.

Name changed to be more PC...Start sitting with the same left facing sidepull and scrunched feet as the arete. Work through some hard moves up and right. establish your feet on the two obvious ledges with hands on opposing sidepulls. A long reach or dyno with the right hand gets you to a great topout. Really good moves!

Start as for "Cubits" but traverse right all the way to "Reap What You Sow" without using the lip for holds.

If it has a name or FA info let me know I'll update it.

Start with both hands underclinging a v shaped flake and move right to a couple more underclings, one of them is fingertips only, and then up to the top. The crux comes with some tricky foot work and a throw past a bulge to the point at the top.

This is not a bad warmup and a good beginners crimp challenge. Start on a small ledge with your feet and climb up a few small edges on the flat face to a large ledge/hold. Then to the top. Some loose rock.

A low start to either Gates of Ekron or Giant Slayer.

Lay down start matched on a low jug and a high right foot. Move up to the slopey mail slot feature, then (crux) up and right to the lip via a combination of matching, bumping, and underclinging. Top out via Gates of Ekron (V8?) or Giant Slayer (V9?).

Not sure on grades as this was at my limit.

The lowest right sit start for Gates of Ekron that I could come up with.

Sitting on the ground, use a good right hand crimp and a good left hand side pull. Bump left hand up to a good pinch and make your way to the slopey lip. The difficulty now is working left to put yourself into position to top out Gates of Ekron (or Giant Slayer!!). Lots of holds to do this but getting a sequence that works for you is the tricky part.

This start feels like it adds a point to the normal start to either GOE or Giant Slayer, but maybe not..

Start on the same jug as for Rude Awakening, and move up and right into the arete before reaching high to a positive edge. You can also start directly below the arete at what feels like a similar grade.

Start under the bulge on the far right of the overhanging face of the Goliath Boulder. A couple of moves up and then follow the sparse spaced holds up and left along the lip to the top. The grade is speculative. The guidebook "Just Crank It" rates this E4(a contrived local grading system)E4 = V0.......yea RIGHT. This thing is hard. V7 is more likely.

Six Cubits and a Span is a great addition to the Goliath boulder and is a really fun and challenging traverse problem. Start at the lowest point on the downhill side of the Goliath boulder and move left around the entire side of the boulder. A few hard moves get you to a rest at the mid-way point with a cool sidepull. Gas up and make the last push to the apex of rise past some bad holds. Get the corner/top (the ending of Triumph With a Sling) in the left hand and mantle over or climb around the corner to the slab and top out there, either way the feet are bad right at the end and you should be pumped!

Start low but try not to use the loose flake at the base. Follow the obvious holds to the top. Fun moves and a bit of a tricky topout.

Start under the right side of the overhanging uphill face of the Goliath Boulder.  Go straight up using slots, side pulls and gastons from a squat. A tricky and dynamic move to bad holds around the lip guards the transition from the overhang to the slab above, or maybe you can find a better way). Surmount the slopey bulge using small crimps and side pulls and work up the small vertical side pulls on the slab to the top. An overlooked and hidden but obvious hold brought the send. Really really fun!

Sit start with a small, incut horizontal crimp for the right and a higher left slopey sidepull. Pulling off the ground is hard. There are a bunch of decent to bad holds to choose from, climb straight up to the top. Footholds are really bad but there's a good one on the left for the starting position.

Start just right of Donkey Punch and the rock at its base with a nice right facing flake in both hands. Climb up to sidepulls and flat slopers and then find a way to get to the top past a blank section. Such interesting moves and holds! Footwork will be very helpful!

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