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Block Head
Description
Cool highball (solo?) up a stack of square-ish boulders.
Start low in the crack, leaning to the right and away from the sharp pointy bush. Slither your way up and right with the crack until you can mantle up onto the first block.
A horizontal hand crack will bring you out into open air - a pad and spotters may be nice here. Carefully and awkwardly mantle up onto the second tier.
Face climb the third block where a pocket and large crimp will help with the third mantle.
You're almost to the top of the formation so you might as well keep going. Hop on over to the last block, or for the real fun move right, down to the adjacent 3rd level block. From here a heady V0 move or two starting on the right arete gets you to the large white horn on the top right, then up the fourth tier block. After this point I forget how I pulled off the mantle but it was an easy-ish move on good holds. No amount of pads would do you any good up here though...
This could almost be a trad climb but with a nice runout up top. A few good places for gear but it wanders and a top belay may be tough. Factor in a heck of a swing on the last tier, and, on second thought, a rope won't be much help anyway.
Location
Right of Lap Crack, on the west face of the cluster of boulders just a few yards separated from the main formation's West/Northwest side.
Protection
nope
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