Chimney climb to a corner crimp and pull hard till your feet touch. Traverse slab right and climb over.

Against the Law

Educator (Overhung)

Climb Crimps, Man (CCM)

Free Parking

Rainbow Orca

Burnet Bend

Touchdown

Campus Campus

High Note

Sound of Music

LUCKY

GEO-PHYS

Chamber of Commerce

In the Shadow of Crosley Tower

Old Chemistry

New Chemistry (Overhung)

Art School Topout

Campus Recreation (Overhung)

Stadium View

CLOVER

Antechamber of Commerce

4 LEAVES

Sit start at the bottom of the stairs, climb underneath, traverse the bridge, find feet + a tiny crimp on the wall, and dyno from there to top out. Use the fence for V1 (climbing shoes not necessary for V1 variant)

Crimps and side pulls lead to a very fun deadpoint and topout. Very easy beginning, grade justifying(?) last move at height. One of the most dynamic and satisfying boulders around campus

Mini slopers and side pulls to top out. Good texture. There is the eponymous rainbow orca on the opposite side of the wall that you top out on and a not-so-fun chossy chimney climb that's probably not worth it.

Start and end in a sit start and move from the outside of the East side of the semicircle to the opposing side using any holds and feet (no walking up the pillars, obviously). Kind of a dumb traverse, but it's just something to do if you're over by this polylith for the other climbs.

Start with right hand on side pull crimp and left hand in a gaston palm to top out. Climbing shoes not necessary

Start standing as low as you can and monkey up the proudest boulder-esque face on campus and top out. Climbing shoes not necessary, pad recommended. A bit of a slug fest, can't make very many attempts on this in a session with how it treats your skin

A little less than 30 feet of quarter pad crimps on the same size feet all the way up to the sloper jug rail. Dihedral is out. Not beta intensive by any means, but it takes a certain amount of focus at height. I strongly advise you be confident enough to climb this without relying on pads because they won't help you much unless you downclimb. You should be able to do laps on The Sound of Music before attempting this. I have not attempted the dihedral but I'm guessing that's about V1

Start with wide legs and climb up to the same topout as "Climb Crimps, Man". Do not use the south-facing wall/corner with feet or hands (see image).

Start with a sidepull + microcrimp and slap to the arête. Use a gaston, sidepulls, and the arête to reach the light grey stripe and match on the rail. The light grey concrete to the left is off. The difficulty of the individual moves on this climb vary quite a lot so grading it was sort of a function of average. 

Dihedral turns into a narrow chimney climb and top out. Start with low feet for a couple starting slab moves or jump and slap your foot right up into the windowsill. Fun and consistent route with a little flaking towards the middle to watch out for.

Go up the letters. Top out provides a nice view but can be quite wet if it has rained recently. Easily doable barefoot, street shoes will be a challenge, pad recommended

Hand foot match, smear, and tug your way through this unique mantle

Start with a right hand on the bomber corner and use either of the crimpy rails to shimmy feet up and top out. Quite fun for how short it is. Climbing shoes not necessary 

Sit start underneath as low as possible on either side and traverse left or right to top out, be careful of the low risk but long fall on either side of the top out. The only boulder to use a metal structure on campus (the handrail for the top out), climbing shoes not necessary 

Very similar route to "Rainbow Orca" but more accessible from the road + slightly worse holds and a slightly more challenging topout. Don't use the garage lettering

Start with both hands under the pool window to a shouldery gaston press, make your way under the overhang and come out the other side for a nice top out. DON'T use the large ledge underneath (see photo). One of my favorites.

Hug the corner and use the square metal plates as feet. One move to the left and top out. Do not use the white bit on the bottom left (see image).

This is a classic to campus. It's a consistent and diverse line that takes a bit of solving. There is a chalk drawing of a clover on the route and "CLOVER" written so I guessed that was the name. If you FA'd this boulder or have climbed it please comment!

Refrigerator climb to the top, don't use the pillars to the left and right. Top out provides a nice view but can be quite wet if it's rained recently. There is a structure at the bottom of this one that's impossible to protect, so be cautious because a shallow fall could be dangerous.

Directly to the right of Clover is this similar, but harder climb.  Named after the 4 side pulls used in the original beta.  The rock quality is just as good as it's sister climb and it leaves the hardest move for last!

Climbs on campus! Most climbs here will be "buildering" as there are not any natural rock formations around UC. However, every boulder here is on something similar to rock like concrete or brick and many have walkoffable topouts. Please add to this page if you know of any good climbs.

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Routes in University of Cincinnati