Start to the left of Touching the Sky where the high left start for it is. Start on the slopey part under that then climb up into the foot like a crimp and work your way right into the start of Touching using a terrible gaston crimp. Adds a few moves into Touching bringing it up to hard V12.

Fisting the Sky

Big Cottonwood direct

Road Rage

Skyfall

Truth and Lies

Red Cross Sit

The Fin

The Minpins

May it Be

Bro Rage

Big Cottonwood left

Blunt

Touching the Sky

Red Cross

Stairway to Heaven

Little Cottonwood

Congrats to Ben Blackmore on what could be Vermont's first V13. This is a sit start to Fisting the Sky(V12) which is itself a sit start to Touching the Sky (V11). This starts on the Skyfall V6 start down under the Fisting the Sky start on the ground level. Pull out right to a low and far sidepull then into a bad crimp and out some underclings into Fisting. 

 Credit to Jake List for the vision of this line.

 Ben proposed a soft V13 (V13-) or V12/13 or even possibly 5.14b (25ish moves) and Jake thought the same.

Same start as for Little Cottonwood. Climb up into the bulge and mantle onto it. Stand up and climb straight up using a crimp far out left and the nice holds on the right.

This climbs the left side of the road-side face of this boulder. Starts directly below the Red Cross snake-eye pockets. Start with a left hand on a crimp and right hand on a slopey crimp that looks like a pocket. Put a foot on the shelf and figure out how to hit the jug sidepull. Match it then get the left arete and climb straight up into the Red Cross topout

 *FYI the new NE bouldering guidebook refers to this as climbing to the right and up into Red Cross. That is not Road Rage, that is a project using the same start holds and is considerably harder (V12/13). As described here Road Rage goes left.

Start about 5-6 feet to the left of the block that Touching the Sky/The Fin start on top of. Starting hold is a sidepull shaped like a triangle. Start match on it with a high left foot and push off to the tiny crimp/pinch up left. Figure out how to get up to the seam that leans left. Hit a small bucket hold and then do a big gaston move to an edge up the seam. The top out from here is very scary. Work your way to the left and using slopers try to get your left foot up over the bulge. Stand up onto the slab and finish the slab.

An awesome, body position dependent, power endurance climb to the right of Blunt. Start sitting low and to the right on the face and crank a few intro moves before getting into tough shouldery climbing on flat gastons and underclings. The guidebook describes a "wild dyno for the finish" but beta has evolved and it is now more of a powerful slap. It shares the same tough topout as blunt.

Sit start with two opposing sidepulls. Find the right body positioning and bust a burly move up. Keep making a few hard moves up then head left to some sharp pockets. From these pockets hit a juggy undercling before reaching the lip of the boulder and executing a hard, committing and exposed topout right above the busy traffic congested road. Press it out and bring home the marbles!

Start low on the right arete and climb the arete with your body on the side facing the road until you get to the very top. At the top, find the foot on the right to finish.

This climb is a fun dyno/ deadpoint that utilizes some solid rock on the uphill side of the large block.

 Sit start to the left of the downclimb tree, sitting at the top of the ramp. (This is the ramp behind "May It Be")

 Grab a good right hand crimp and a left hand sloper out left. Find the solid feet amongst the brittle rock before pulling on and hucking for the lip of the boulder. Top out with a fun solid mantle, turn around, then down climb the tree.

Left of little cottonwood. Start matched on a crimp rail, make a hard move to another rail right, throw a high heel and pull two more crimps before throwing a toe hook on the right arete and locking off to a jug.

Sit-start with a blocky lefthand undercling and a righthand sloping pinch. Make a hard first move up to a sloping pocket before executing a hard lock-off out left to a large hold. Once on this large sidepull, quest up the tall face into the heady and exposed topout shared with "Red Cross".

Start the same as for Little Cottonwood but climb up the bulge and into the face instead. Climb left on slopers and pockets using the Little Cotton arete for your feet.

A cool line of pinches and underclings up a mildly overhung prow. Start on two good underclings, then slap up to a narrow pinch. More powerful moves lead to a cut out jug up and right, and then a somewhat heinous and grovely top out.

Starts to the left of The Fin. Stand start on two edges.

 Jamie Rushford added a sit start variation in 2015 which goes at V11/12

Start on opposing side pulls and either use intermediates or make a big move up left to a slopey crimp feature, hit a crimp up and right from there and traverse left on crimps and pockets to jugs towards the top. Scary top out after the jugs.

Start low on the arrete under the bulge and climb the arrete into the jugs for the top out. Tricky beta to get the jugs. 

  UPDATE 7/29: Sometime in the last week the huge jug that makes the last hard move broke off. It left behind a good sized incut crimp rail use this and a pinch above to get to the jugs now. Likely V7-8 range now.

This boulder holds some of Vermont's hardest problems, a couple of great mid-grade problems, and The Finn, one of the most beautiful high-ball aretes in New England. Once you lay your eyes on the Finn, you will understand the name of this boulder.

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