Will Wolcott

One of the best boulder locations in California.

Made it look ugly

Great boulder, terrible down climb.

UC top 100!

great end to the slab circuit

Thanks for the Spray down, Colin. dirty slab on top...reminds me of wet mossy Yosemite boulders.

3 pad stack. coming back next year for the 2 pad stack ascent.

One from the lifetime todo list. A perfect end to my last day at Rocktown for the season.

Awesome. great end to a solo mission day.

crimpy one mover.

reachy, committing.

So many cool holds in such a short boulder. This one has always felt impossible for me.

There isn't another top-out like this one. Unique and amazing.

Started at the low opposing side-pulls. Cool foot beta, good problem.

Finally put it together in a light rain. this is a classic boulder problem.

From the low pedestal. The best crimp line in the South.

Super duper

jeez, burly...even the 'easy' stuff past the long move. 2 of the 5 "Hulks" complete. gotta catchem all.

First trip to Dayton! I guess you have to do this one.

Reaffirming my power move: scrunchy heel hooks. Great session at the river today.

Really fun, independent line and worth more than the one star it gets. Cool moves, good holds, and an easy but engaging topout. The rule book calls this V8, which is a bit high.

this is what bouldering is all about. you pull hard on one sharp crimp, grab a jug, and have a beer with your friends saying how epic that was.

like a mini-Heroin with a dyno from the start holds

seriously seeping.

a lot of scary barn door potential up high

super cold day. perfect friction.

Managed to skip the sharp ones.

fun sesh with Michal.

REALLY cool pinches. great style in this problem.

hard work. lots of betas to choose from. didn't top it out.

Standard Rocktown sandbag. tricky beta and hard sloper moves. had an hour long evening rapid fire session on it.

I actually do go sport climbing once in a while.

With Casey.

Butt dragger start to some good moves.

it's got a little bit of everything.

Stellar. Gets my vote for best V0 in the South.

really cool holds the whole way

Just tall enough to make the move obvious.

Woof.

Feels like there were lots of betas for this one.

My favorite kind of slab problems are the one's where you can just jump to a jug when it starts to get hard.

just rained, perfect temps: ideal for this one.

Super precise to stick the first move. not my favorite type of crux.

geez, hard.

Holy sandbag.

seriously off-routed this one. downclimbed 20 feet and got it right (left).

Fun dyno left of Jerry's Kids

With the visiting SF crew. gleaned some psych from Renee and V.

Scary 3rd clip without the draws hung.

Finally getting it.

boulder to glory jugs

Great stemming and techy moves. not Red-like

On-sight! no falls!

Really awesome line. tricky gear above the roof.

jugs f'dayz

great boulder...err, route problem!

i hesitated.

from the crimps. super fun line.

almost gave up on this one. thanks to scientist David for the motivation.

Spooked myself with that terrible topout landing. topout recommended for a cold day.

Courtney cleaned a new hold which made the topout less flutchy. cool pinches

topped out left. kinda weird and dirty.

multiyear project! the beta was to try harder, hold on longer.

Jug start of Vince Pinch. after just back from SA, this felt amazingly technical.

"You just climbed the girliest problem in Rocklands." - Yves Hanggi. "Dude, that thing is like 8B!" - Dave Graham.

standard Colin/Whatcott send train

awesome night sesh! pulled the car up to the boulder for lights and music, and rooibus liquer shots

was the first project at Rocklands. felt WAY better after 5 weeks here. redemption!

fun mantle

fantastic highball

send train with Micky, Jimbo, and Colin with flappers!

nice linkup

great holds, good movement

send train with colin and tom cruise

Amazing highball. all jugs up top.

Blew it from the jug twice. body tension the whole way.

After little horn breakage.

kinda a one mover.

understandably the first boulder problem in Rocklands.

super good slopes.

Intimidating but reasonably secure.

amazing setting for a boulder problem. too bad it's so dabby.

At the Sassies. Left of Black Streak.

awesome compression jump.

Physically and mentally engaging from the first to last move. awesome line and great holds over a Colorado landing. Won 2 apple fritters c/o Spenser.

Left arete on first boulder. Pulling the name from the Horan guide

1st boulder: up the face from the jug. Name from Horan guide. guessing at the grade. Low start looks hard.

Uhhh-mazing.

yeah Vikki!!! this is an incredible climb.

one mover. missed the jug on top and dabbed the rock behind me, saving a nasty fall into the crevice.

Tommy has quite a few aretes. this one is as good as any. so pumped on top. i blame the 10k feet.

good fun.

with Travis. tricky start, hairy slab at the end of the first pitch.

with T-Dog. another fun and easy roof

led the steep and chossy 5.8 pitch. Spenser took the hard roof pitches. yep, 50-50.

awesome variation to High E. went out left and then back on the hand traverse.

stellar. with Trav.

another gunks classic

also useful as a finger caliper.

Fun slopes

OK grade aside, this is still a great climb.

way to make those girls hate you, Jen.

Prime Rib dinner!

a lot of work. the good kind of work.

worth the hike

Isaac calls it V3. closer to V1, and the top is very secure. super duper climb.

uhhh

old school ascent: no pads, tennis shoes. not for ethics, for laziness.

nice detour from Wills

the sit seems silly, but the rest is good fun

best climb of the day

sharp

pretty bad digger on the flash attempt.

Brooklyn cheer to this one

gym climbing, fun jugs

soooo technical for Joe's

hard, scary.

good but meh

On the west side of the cracked boulder. Fun jamming. easier than the other side.

chossy flake up high.

another hard and scary one on the cracked boulder.

had cut feet on the slab. typical.

top wasn't as bad as i was told

used that spooky finger lock on the top-out.

hard mantle

body tension.

Soulwax gets team-send cred

lives up to its name. fun reach and a cool top out.

fun dyno. also went static with small crimps on the face.

oh yeah. 2nd best problem at Castle.

the standard no-holds-wrestling on top

classic sandstone climbing

heel-toe-cam-drop-knee-back-flag-smear beta. nbd.

about as fun as desperate grovelling can be. cool body tension moves.

traversing felt easier than Alexisizer. harder mantle.

this would be really popular if it weren't such an incredible pain to get to. lots of good holds in a long roof.

started with right on the arete and left on the start of Jack. felt easier than starting matched but climbs WAY better. lots of fun burly slapping moves.

much easier with a cool, overcast day. a little spooky on top.

nice isolated problem. fun laybacks up top.

talliman'd it

alexanderisizist

spooky slab

sans TR: http://www.dpmclimbing.com/climbing-videos/watch/three-bishop

way more fun than it looks. lots of yosemite falls onlookers got to enjoy this one

Adds a couple funky moves to the original. still an awesome mantle.

do you think you like crimps?

cool layback moves

really great dihedral. glory jugs up top.

incorrect grade in sendage database. hard v3 at that.

used the pockety thing which feels a bit easy. the difficulty doesn't change that it's a great line.

that damn tree. i was all over that thing after grabbing the jug.

sent a couple minutes after grimace. power surge!

Solo send! gotta bite back on those sharp holds.

used the arete at the top.

burly on the bottom, spicy-delicate on top.

spider man grip and a slopey pinch. surprised how fun those extra moves are

The sit adds some some fun moves down low.

great grips after the weird first move

multi-year project. first-go-best-go this season.

climbed 3 days after the start hold broke (11/30/11). used worse crimp near the original start. slightly harder now, according to others. never climbed V10, so i have to sandbag here.

Climbs amazingly well. must do in Kraft

cool holds, easy to skip a lot of them

a little reachy but really fun

thanks to Colin for kicking off the send train. thanks to BJ's for the wedge salads. Imperial Palace, you're dead to me.

new form of motivation discovered: giant crew of shirtless grunting agro dudes encourages quick send. also, had a cold. also, didn't eat that day. day flash.

butterflies and hummingbirds

bumping this a couple grades. V0's don't usually have sharp quarter pad crimps up high over death pits. that said, this problem is awesome.

got a gusher from the first tiny right crimp, slapped at the upper crimps and splattered blood on my face. pretty gruesome climbing.

many days projecting this one

that move gave me fits. be safe up top.

long crux sequence

2nd go. really good sloping crimps.

surprisingly safe for a heart flutterer

fun problem after that first painful little guy. i completely missed the jug on top and did a scary sloper mantle. i'm an idiot.

pretty piece of rock

Squamish's finest. finally got all the pieces together for a great climb

beautiful piece of stone. great climbing. one of Squam's best. too scared to take the cave though...

one of the best in Squamish. just watch the scrape on the left heel....

nice secluded problem. love the north walls

big moves on slopers. completely my style. great 2 mover

lots of great moves. pleading the 5th and going with the guidebook grade.

awesome compression. kinda epic'd on the last reach

wow, 2 amazing moves. it all has to click to make this one work. really burly and technical.

tricky one move problem. seems hard if you're short.

daborific

super jugs up high. wasn't willing to throw myself at the direct finish.

whoa high step!

doesn't really deserve a 'ghost' icon. nice problem, not really scary.

the whole team sent! awesome and awkward rails

pretty cool for a short one. thought it was a bit awkward up top, maybe i just suck.

Eliminates the good lip hold on the right of Easy Chair and goes direct to the top from the lip. This is a surprisingly fun lock-off.

cool problem. good body tension and pad placement makes this less dabby.

super tricky. i just burled through it because that technical stuff takes too long to work out.

good beta from James Lucas. he's so dreamy...

another send train from Paradise Valley. great day of climbing.

i think i cheated out too early.

accompanied 7 bug bites and $200 in losses at a Reno craps table