Mother Nature climbs up an astheticly pleasing arete on giant square cut holds, pockets and crimps with a thought provoking topout high above the dirt. Which has sent more than one climber, highly confident in climbing V1 boulder problems on a despirate retreat.

There is a sit start which adds a couple of very powerful, thin moves of V4 to the start for a more challanging approach.

Mother Nature

Natures Wrath

Jinga

Mother Want Another

Ululatos

Global Warning

Crispy Critters

Space Lord

Motherfucker Traverse

To the left of Mother Nature is a series of flat edges between big moves which go through a lower angle section filled with moss. Sit start on a sloping edge and make big moves up the face to a thin, and crispy top out. Watch that landing as there are a few boulders at the base which could literally break your fall.

Moss and lichen a half inch thick is what's seemingly holding many of the knobby face holds to the wall. Fortunately for the one who drew the short straw or lost the bet that made them climb this route, there's a couple of large awkward boulders at the base to break their fall in the likely scenario that something should break or they skate off the ball bearing like lichen covered knobs.

In the unlikely event that your Neanderthal like thought pattern should take over and you actually decide this is a route you just have to climb, (because it's there or whatever). Start on the rail and mantle up to a good stance. Then follow the dark, maybe slightly golden piss stain like vegetation streak that flows down the face of the wall.

Sit start and pull through big moves, micro crimps and wild throws to side pulls until you get over the bulge. Then the climbing changes character and you have to carefully pull yourself up the last several feet with bigger and better jugs the higher you get.

Be aware of the large rocks just behind the landing should you come off this one high up.

A large boulder was rolled out of the way to open up this new route. Sit start left of a scar and pull your left hand up to a horrible sloping crimp, bump to the jagged crimp and shoot the right hand to the good razor edge crimp. Head strait up the blunt arete from there.

A right variation sit starts right of the scar in very good crimp pockets next to each other. Right hand high to a thin crimp/pinch, left up to a crimp just next to it, bump over to the thin razor crimp and up the blunt arete from there staying just to it's right up much easier ground. Be wary, though the climbing up higher is easier, it tends to be very crusty, a little loose in spots, tall (about 18ft) and will test your nerve.

Sit start and pull your way up straddling the big arete on the Mother Boulder. Good crimps, edges and maybe even a heal scum bring you up this daunting route. Stay left out of the broken area that leads off right to easier ground and attack the top of the arete directly. A good three finger pocket rest can be found just before committing to the topout which is not as hard as it looks.

Alot of loose rock was cleaned from just below the top. Stay left on the true arete from this cleaned area for the original version or go right climbing through the cleaned area and exiting up big jugs at the top of Space Lord should you suddenly not feel up to it.

This is a highball route and the name is an indication of that. So watch out for that gigantic rock (earth) if you think you're going to fall from the top of this one.

Sit start on good edges and climb up the crispy face just left of the blunt arete to the right of

Space Lord

The crux is low but the easier crispy climbing above will test your confidence and motivation.

On the west facing side of the Mother Boulder is a flat less than vertical face. There are many holds and ways one could go, but it's more or less strait up the center of the face. The crux is getting off the ground and established on the wall. The higher you climb the better the holds get until you're topping out on jugs. This makes the route popular for those who are looking to train their heads more than those looking to pull down hard. No moves harder than 5.9

Start on a rock/tree to the left of the low angle decent and traverse the boulder going left. Some sketchy lichen awaits on the south side along the crack, but not to worry, you have to move through there quick anyway or the angry natives will swarm your position. Stay fairly low along the length of the traverse to keep the difficulty up, or climb higher (V1-) for a more casual route with good feet. End back on level ground where the downclimb from the top of the boulder is.

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