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Balancing boulder problem
Description
2 ways to do this problem. Either way, you start using the disk-shaped dark blob, about the size of a frisbee, at chest height. - Easier start uses the podium rock for feet. Start standing on it, with both hands underclinging the frisbee. Reach high to get onto the chalked sloper, match it, and work your way up from there. Some people move off the sloper with their right hand, others go up with their left. - Harder start avoids using the podium altogether, and only allows you to use the balancing boulder itself for hands and feet. Start with both hands on the frisbee, and feet out left. Swing up into the sloper (whee!), and move up from there. This variation is probably V3+ or V4-.
L1, "Sloper Problem," from Mayer & Moret overview map. From their online guide: "On the south side, start from an undercling/sidepull and roll up to the sloper, match and work up to the upper sidepull. I found the large crystals beside the sloper to be helpful. V3-ish; foot placement is the key to the whole problem."
Location
On lower mound, this is on the south side of the obvious uppermost boulder.
Protection
Pad, spotter. Although it seems like you might hit your head on the boulder to the left, I've never seen anybody do this. More likely, you'll swing out right and miss the pads in the other direction.
Routes in Lower Mound (western cluster of boulders)
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