A great route for the Dyno Maestro, Gym Rat, Hang Dog or Rock Jock.  In fact it would probably be in the best interest of anyone and everyone to try this route as long as they don't mind hucking meat.  The Gipper is by far the most fun out of a distinguished group of short bouldery routes at the NRG.

Overhanging approximately 35 degrees, and featured with just the right amount of smooth pockets, slopers and underclings, every move is interesting and somewhat difficult.  There are two distinctly hard sections on the route.  The first involves a core intensive move off of an undercling.  The second (crux) is the type of move that boulderers dream of.  This final crux can be done as an all points off dyno or a counterintuitive windmill dyno.  Either way you slice it you're looking at a single V7 move with a bit of pump.

One question remains after sampling the exquisite routes on this mysterious block.  How many more brilliant pebbles are hidden out in the depths of the West Virginia backwoods?

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One for the Gipper

Lackawana

Machete Arete

Full Sail

Fat Crack and Beer

Steamfist futurist

Delta Star

Grey Goose

Brown Star

Fun jug haul along a steep arete. Crux is a big move between bolts 1 and 2, and the climb eases up on enormous jugs to a slopey finish.

Steep finger crack and corner behind the pebble

If only this climb were longer...A must do if you have your rack and you are at the Pebble.   Start about 10 feet to the left of the arete.   Climb the entire climb staying on the left side of the arete.   Great moves, great gear, super fun!

This currently overlooked route is awesome and deserves more traffic. What looks runout from below climbs very safely. The movement is engaging the whole way.

Stick clip the first bolt. Start on the boulder and climb straight up to the small roof. Figure out how to balance / tension / smear your way left (crux, may be slightly harder or height dependent) to the first good flake. Continue climbing up the sail-like features using mostly smears for feet, past a couple decent stances, until you reach a jug below the fourth bolt.

A hard pull up and left leaves you at a full rest stance, then easy runout on jugs brings you to the fifth bolt. Use the correct sequence of good holds up the flake to the last bolt and follow slightly sloping ledges to the drop-in anchor.

Begin at the wide crack on the wall behind the Brilliant Pebble. Tunnel into the wall to place a big cam in a horizontal, then return to the light and scum through the wide bit on TR. Enjoy easy climbing on okay rock up to the first roof. Bypass this to the right and then rail out the hanging face, clipping two widely spaced bolts. Pull a smaller roof over gear to a good rest on a ledge. Tech through through the vertical crux above past two more bolts staying mindful of that big ledge.

Rope drag from the big roof makes clipping in the high crux quite challenging, with a ledge waiting below. If you were to drag a second rope for to the top bit, the route might just feel more like the 5.11 that it probably is.

Impeccable stone and swift movement on this one.This route is all about finesse  and trusting Tiny Nrg crimps Rattalee feet, an a little thinking power with your classic high steps will take you to the top. When your up there you might be wishing those all those ripples you saw at the bottom gave way to more holds but what you need is around  just might be hiding.  Porter gave it a 12-  so I will leave it at that.

Start a bit to the left from the crack system about 15 feet up.   Climb up on horizontals and then traverse a bit right to gain the crack (crux).   From here, follow the crack to the finish, taking advantage of the many face holds along the way.

Excellent route on the front left side of the "Pebble". Stick clip, or plug a hand sized cam into the crack to start. Enjoy the adventure that awaits. Crimping, highstepping, heels, laybacking, are all par for the course on this gem. Have fun.

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