Start high with your feet on the quartz seam and your hands on opposing sidepulls. Move your left hand up to another side pull then a big move up right to a good "inner arete." Placing your feet without being able to see them is tricky but once you get the feel of it smearing up should be easy if you trust your feet.

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Sit start on the quartz seam and figure out how to traverse left slightly until you can reach up and grab the good flake. Either mantle or do a high footed squat to make it up. The flake felt secure to me but Robin mentions you should "pray it holds" so maybe he thinks it has a chance of coming off.

Sit on the far left side of the right face of the boulder. Use the large hold on the arete and the great quartz seam as feet to move your way up the center of the boulder. Once you figure out which hands to use it should feel very easy, with some good movement.

Start on the left arete and work your way up to the top. Fairly obvious line.

Start with two hands in the bottom of the seam and work your way up left without using the right arete. I didn't have the conditions or skin to put enough tries in for a send on this one but V7 feels about right, and it's the grade Robin gave it originally.

Start sitting low on the right arete. Climb up to the horn using holds on the arete and center of the face. It will feel easier if you use the sharp sidepulls on the face. It's possible this is only V3 under better conditions, in the heat smearing felt difficult.

Sit start on the arete and work your way up. Most straightforward climb on the boulder and very fun.

Originally developed by Robin Close. Here is the guide he created: mdguides.files.wordpress.co…I found this guide on Robin's website and decided to check out this boulder. This is one of the few places not listed on MP so I figured it was not highly trafficked. The boulder had lots of vegetation growing around and on it. I cleaned off most of the plants growing out of the face and some of the vegetation/leaves that had accumulated around the base. I assume it has not been climbed in a good bit, but it is definitely a fun day trip - perfect for a solo trip because the highest climb is probably barely 10 feet. I brought two pads and felt more than secure, you could probably get away with one for most of the climbs. The rock quality is good for Maryland and most of the holds are quite nice. I did pull off a low flake checking out some of the rock on the right side (mostly undeveloped) of the boulder so be careful. I've put all the climbs from the guide with my opinion on the grades, in addition to one new short problem I put up on the right face.

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