Pretense is a short but powerful, dihedral, boulder problem.

Sit start with a left hand on a large sidepull and right hand on a crescent-shaped crimp.  From there, make a decent move to a right hand crimp (likely the crux), then work a left knee-bar, and bump up to the next sidepull.  From there on, it goes pretty easily, work the remaining jugs onto the large platform out left, climb through the shrubbery, and top it out.

Pretense

Reading Rainbow

Awoman

Four-Pad Pun

Goodbye Blue Monday

SDS on shelves and move straight up the small roof/bulge. Set pads to the left and center in case you blow the top. The route is named for Four pads being below and Nick flying off over and back to the left, coupled with Brad saying he doesn't like puns.

Reading Rainbow is a crimpy testpiece that climbs across the beautiful face. Nothing is off, the sequence took a lot longer to read than I thought, hence it became the Reading Rainbow.

Awoman is a superb arête problem that climbs great rock over a perfect landing.

Sit start at the arête with a left underneath on a large jug and a right on a small crimp at the arête.  From there, work along the arête on the crimps to the prow, then make some compression moves up until finding a good foot-edge.  At that point, rock onto the slab's shelf, and top it out.

The crux for this one lies toward the end with the compression moves.  A shallow left hand bump with a great thumb catch makes this go, as it allows the right hand to slap up to the decent relief up high on the arête.

Start on two crimps, right and left. Move right to a scoop, then lunge right to a shelf/hueco, set feet and move left to an edge and then make your way left to two edges, set feet again and move to a sloper/crimp or out left to a downward facing edge and match then move up to another crimp and topout.

The wall of

Pretense

is off, for purists. The grade DROPS to V5 if they are used.

The crux is linking the entire route together. The rock is beautiful jet black Dakota Sandstone, with powerful moves on crimps, side-pulls and huecos.

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Routes in Mistress Boulder