This is located on the "square block" about halfway up the hill.  The block can be seen from the Black Hole directly above a large pine tree on the middle of the hillside. This problem is rad. The crux is the first 8-10 feet. It has really thin laybacks and jams. The upper half of the problem is easier but pretty highball. Unless you regularly onsight .11+ finger cracks, I'd recommend a pad. This is the crack up the center of the northwest face of the square block. There are problems up both aretes on either side of the face. I'm not sure who did the first ascent or if there are any cool historical facts about this one. This is one of my favorite boulder problems. It is worth every star.

Breashear's Crack II

Done Deal Dyno

Deal Jams Sit

Southeast Arete

Super Phun Thyme

Deal Jams

Squeezed

In the Beginning

Where is My Gummy Bear? (what my daughter called it)

From Here Or There

God Created Crimps

This is the northeast arete on the cube, just east of Breashears crack II. Start on a good undercling for the left hand and an alright pinch on the arete for the right hand, find some feet, and stand up. Once you hit the next ledge from here, the problem eases up quite a bit, but with fun movement up good ledges all the way to the top. Moves somewhat left off of the arete.

The problem starts from two small crimps and dynos to the top of the block. If the dyno is out of your reach, try climbing the crack. Start from the small holds and move up into a painfull jam, then to the top. This way it's a fun V1. Sit on top and smoke a bowl, and enjoy the fine afternoon sunshine.

Sit start in a low pod in the crack for one hand and a bad crimp for the other with a good foot out right. Make a hard move to reach the starting holds of

Deal Jams

(V1), and continue to the top.

This is the east/southeast arete of the cube boulder.  Start on a right pocket and a left sidepull and straight up the arete for some trickery on some slopers to gain good ledges to the top.

This is insanely fun and a low risk intro to toe hook/bat hang. I do not know who has the FA as Morrison has been climbed out since before I was born. Please change anything seen fit as to the problem name and FA beta. I gave it this interim name because... well it's super fun. This is to be done as a bat hang.

Start on the two obvious, large crimps with your back into the boulder, and throw your toes to start the bat hang. Move right hand out to better higher hold, match your left hand to your feet, match your right to your feet so all four are on one hold. Cut your feet, and spin around to face boulder careful not dab, rearrange your hands, and drop that knee to shoot for the top. Don't use the intermediate high left. Double mantel the topout, and avoid the two blocks on top of the boulder.

Start on two alright crimps, find some bad feet, set up and make one move to the slot for a bomber hand jam. You're done!

A good variety of interesting moves, fun face climbing.

Sit start on some crimp jugs, work up to the ledge, and top out through the gap.

Sit down start, in the same area as breashears crack. Grab the good left jug on the north side, and a decent right hand side-pull/crimp on the west side of the arete. Paste the feet and stand up to a good right hand crimp, and then move the left into the pocket. You kind of have to climb your way around a rock that sits against the arete on the west side of the boulder. From here, the climb tick-tacks up crimps and pinches, with decent feet along the way, to make for a pretty fun problem.

Alternate start: You can start by just standing on the rock on the west side of this arete, and head up from here, although you'd be eliminating the best part of the problem, and would drop the grade at least a number, if not two. Just thought I'd add that since I've seen people up there doing the problem this way.....

This route is the sit start to 'In The Beginning,' and it really does not favor the tall.  If you're shorter, this may feel easier to you.  Start really low on two sidepull/undercling crimps, getting your ass off the ground is the crux, and then not slipping off the bad footholds is the second crux.  Slap your way up the slopers to easier jugs and the top.

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Routes in The Cube Area