Start sitting with hands matched on the lowest incut crimp rail. Bump the left hand to one of two crimp gastons and then make a powerful pull to another small crimp rail that is a long ways away. Perhaps use a small knobby pinch to get there. If you make it that far, mostly good holds await. Follow these to an easy, but somewhat dirty top out just right of the tree. 

  Sharp, powerful, crimpy- in no particular order. 

  With some traffic, the top out will clean up nicely.

Pace Is The Trick

Trending South

Dead Center

The Northern Gentleman

Casual State of Mind

Right To Life

Half Baked Over a Puddle of Mud

Sit start just left of the arete, to the right of Dead Center, on obvious opposing sidepulls.  A shouldery move off a bad crimp and possibly a worse intermediate gets you to better holds for a brief respite.  From there a techie sequence on crimps up the face takes you up and left to the initial lip.  Two more moves that can feel a bit desperate when you're tired gains an easy top out. 

  Great movement on perfect crimps. 

  Beware loose rock on the highest left crimp on the route.  Most of it has broken off but be warned.

Start standing at the base of the faint corner/dihedral feature with the left hand on a sloper/sidepull and the right hand on a high crimp. Follow the shallow dihdedral on slopers, crimps and edges until rock leftward to gain the lip and an easy top out. 

  A good problem with fun movement and perfect rock.

Start sitting with both hands on a crimpy flake. Pull up to another good crimp (crux) and continue up the face on edges and rails to a slopey, but relatively straight forward top out. 

  An excellent and aesthetic problem on great rock.

Stand start the arete with left hand on a good pinch on the arete and right hand low on a crimp, pick some feet and climb the arete making use of the crimps on the face with your right hand. 

  Pretty good climb, with a bit more traffic the crime should be a bit less sharp.

This line starts with a left hand pinch and right hand gaston and utilizes a high left start foot.  Shoot up and left (crux) to either a sloper or the shallow crescent shaped dish.  Look for the distinct horn out right and your halfway there.  Finish up with more positive holds and toss in in a sloping top-out for good measure.

A rising arete traverse similar to Arrow in the Trailside area, just a tad higher and longer.  Sit start at the base (when the lagoon is dry) and follow the nicely sculpted arete up and left.

So you're on the slabs, the dome, the lower cliff, or the trailside boulders and you look across the marsh to see a giant boulder hidden in the trees.  Maybe at some point you go look, but most people don't.  What you miss out on is a secluded little area with a bunch of easy to moderate highballs and a few quality shorter problems that in the end would add up to a good day out bouldering. 

  The granite here is the same as Round Pond and the climbs are shaded for most of the day.  There are crimps, cracks, jugs, slopers and even a pocket or two.  The majority of the landings are flat, with one exception - there is a rock sitting beneath a difficult highball.  People have been climbing here for years and you know you're interested, so go take a look.

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Routes in North Marsh Boulders (aka South Seas)