Stand start with your right hand on the crimp at about head height and your left hand on the hook above it. Stand on the good ledge, and get a left foot up in the crack on the face (starting right hand for Use Yah Blinkah'). Press up to sharp slopers, and work right towards the high point where there is a good hold to top out on the sloping face. It is another fun, technical start with a sharp, frustrating topout.

Wrong Way

Use Yah Blinkah'

Road Trip

Life in the Fast Lane

Noise Pollution

Rotary

One Way Road

I-95

Traffic Jam

Crosstown Traffic

Right Lane Ends

Icy Road

Car Crash

Road Kill

Stand start with your right hand on the crack in the middle of the face, your left hand on a palm-sized, pinchey sloper just above the ledge, and two options for feet. From the iron cross start, get a high left foot on the ledge, and press up and get a high right hand directly above the face. Work sharp slopers on the top, and traverse right using feet on the face. Reach for the one good hold near the highest point on the right, and pull up the sloping topout. The first move is really good when it goes and really frustrating when it doesn't.

Start on the shared hold of Crosstown Traffic and Rotary, then move left on small crimps, and continue left until you reach the downclimb. Continue past the downclimb to Icy Road, then top out.

Start with your hands in the large crack, then follow the crack up to the topout keeping your hands in the crack until the top.

Start with two good handholds on the underside of the flake on the Northeast side of the boulder. Step left and up to an overhung sidepull, then move up with the right to a good hold in the crack off to the right. Work up the crack with your right hand, and shimmy up the face to a good jug at the top.

Start on the same holds as Crosstown Traffic, and move out left to a small pocket. Get a good right heel, and then go to a right hand gaston on a small hold. Rock onto the heel, match the small gaston, and then climb up the slopers to an easy topout.

Start with your hands on each side of the lower flake, and work up to the two crimps on each side of the arete. Work directly up the arete using slopers and small features. The smooth top out is the crux of this route. PG-13 is due to the rock located directly underneath the topout which is the most likely section to fall. Please use caution.

Starting on a good ledge, move upwards and slightly to the left using a combination of crimps and slopers. When you near the top use to right edge to top out. Get down via the downclimb.

Start on a crimp rail, and then move up the delicate face on crimpy holds. Top out on slopers, and go down on the downclimb.

Start around the corner on the east face with both of your hands on a sloping shelf, and traverse around the corner into a small crack with two crimpy pockets at first, leading to a micro-pinch. Follow the slender crack to a bad sloper. Work up and to the left to either of the good holds toward the topout. Once you hit the good jug in the main crack, its pretty much over, but don't forget to top it out left on the slopey face of One Way Road. Crux is traversing around the corner and up to the micro pinch.

Start with two hands matched on the central vertical crack on the South face. Work up the crack and to the left for a slopey topout.

Start with a left gaston and a right hand on a sloper. Move your right hand up, and track your left hand in to another gaston. Cross left to a good jug, which is sometimes dirty. Top out and downclimb to the right.

Start laybacking on the crack, move up to the large hold, then follow the face directly to the topout using small crimps on the lip and a tiny gaston.

Start matched on the small rail in the center of the overhanging portion of the wall. Move out left to the large hold, track your right hand in to a small gaston, and match on the large hold. This route may be easier depending on how tall you are.

This is a large glacial erratic that sits on Bannon Hill just uphill from some colonial era foundation ruins, thus the Foundation Boulder. At about 10-11 feet maximum at the top, this is no means a highball, but it might just be some of the best bouldering in the area (very limited). All four sides feature climbable routes. There is a stable downclimb that is good for beginners and also some harder features catering to a more advanced level of climbers. There really is something for everyone here!

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Routes in Foundation Boulder