One of the proudest line at the Cascades. Tough moves, easy to access, straight forward from start to finish and visible by all who pass.

 When looking at the front, trail facing portion of the roof, this line sitstarts underneath the roof on the right sides, butt on the ground, hands on opposite facing flat sidepulls (compression). Lift up for a big, fun, gratifying latch to a massive jug to start the next sequence.

 Climb up onto the small holds on the side of the boulders face and commence the pumpy traverse left and low into the start of "Inglorious" and finish as per.

Inglorious Bastards

Threat Level Midnight

Shulti Mind Trick

Inglorious

Rapunzel Syndrome

The Asinine Project

Space Invaders

Threat Level Left

Thunder Hole

Inglorious Original

Accelerated Freefall

C Note

Swamp Child

The Mossy Slab

Cold Feat

Start matched on the "bread loaf" crimp rail that resembles the start for "Inglorious Low". Find feet below the roof and navigate straight up through dishes, bad slimpers, and gastons before topping out as the same place as Inglorious.  

  The pocket slots on space invaders are off route.  This is kind of a squeeze job, but has interesting slab mantelesque movement.  Don't wear your fancy prana clothes on this one (or else they won't be fancy anymore!!).

This line is under the left portion of the roof. 

  Sit start under the roof at the base of the boulder. Match hands for the start in the big jug under the roof and use a big left heel.   - From here climb up into a hard crimp sequence to gain the enormous flat ledge overhead to top out past.

Cascadia Stand Start - This could be a future finish to a V8 version of Accelerated Freefall?  It is the path of least resistance up the trailside face of the boulder.  A bit easier than doing the huge lockoff deadpoint on the corner. 

  Stand start at the triangular point mid-way across "Rapunzel Syndrome" on the uphill side of the boulder, make a move or two to the right and negotiate the short face in the easiest way possible.  Make a fairly committing mantle up to a high crimp rail to the right and below the fern worked best for me.  Topout easily from here.   

  As far as technical mantles go, this is about as good as they come.

So much fun! 

  When looking at the trail-facing roof, this problem climbs the right blunt arete. 

  Stand start under the arete with a left hand under the roof on a left facing flat sidepull and a right hand on a small slopey lip at the base of the arete corner. Heel hook up on a rail with your right heel. 

  Bump up onto the massive bulbous sloper feature and work into the small crimps. Negotiate to the top. 

  (Your doing something wrong if you need to go left or scrub anymore than whats clean... climb straight up through the arete)

Stand start by grabbing the slopey lip at head height, and placeing your feet on the large boulder to the left. Traverse with heel hooks and campus moves to the right across slopers. Top out at the same corner as 'Inglorious'   An alertnate V8 topout finish could exist midway though the traverse.

This is the same start as "Inglorious Bastards" only instead of traversing left, just head straight up the face through fun moves (pockets and slimpers). Without the start move and as a standstart its probably a v2? Good warm-up!

Start as per "Threat Level Midnight" but off the start love left into the leftmost jug out of the roof (what you would heel hook on for Midnight). Again, move left with a tough lunge to a perfect pinch feature. Negotiate the pinch loaf to gain the beefy ledge up top. 

  This is more or less a left "exit" sequence to the midnight line, and worth trying for sure!

Basically a one-move wonder into a nice V2.  SDS on tiny crimps, the three starting crimps to choose from are all in the same lowest horizontal line (the center crimp is a 1/4 pad positive crimp, left is a tiny finger slot or OK sidepull, third is a small edge around the corner to the right).  Feet on a large left facing crescent shaped dish, or other smears.  Make a tough move or two to a good horizontal then climb the blunt arete on rad iron bands using edges, dishes and pinches to a quality mantle.  Good movement, still a bit mossy up high.  Needs to be climbed to stay clean!   

  Skipping the sit start is a fun V2ish warm-up.  Thx to Mr. Metzman for scrubbing this line for us.  Cascadia needs more warm-ups! 

Another inglorious line???  Seriously? Yeah, really! This problem is that good.  If you have done inglorious, amp it up by adding some more full value moves, you will not regret it.  It turns out that this was the original start put up by Austin Manning around 2004/5.  He could not remember giving it a name. 

  Start matched on the nice low block crimp that you heel for the start of Inglorious with a toe on the left hold of the start of Inglorious Bastards.  Finish on Inglorious. 

  Super classic (IMO)!

Squeeze yourself down as far under the left side of the roof as you can manage.  Start with a right hand in a hollow-sounding flake-pocket, left hand on a smeary non-hold, and butt firmly on the ground.  Open up your bag of tricks, and pull out some toe-hooks, bat-hangs and heel-toe cams on your way to the lip.  Catch a quick breather, make a hard ninety-degree turn to starboard, and start heading all the way over to the other arete, smearing your heel on wherever you can make it stick.  Grab the crimp slot with your right hand, re-adjust it, really get your fingers in there good, re-adjust it again, then swing your feet over and launch into the crux slow-motion dead-point onto the slab.

A great warmup on a classic boulder!  Do this before working those big lines to get the blood flowing.  SDS on the huge jug just after the start of Inglorious Bastards with good feet.  Work up through some interesting underclings to a ledge and topout easily.

Another cool little warm-up when you are playing around at Cascadia.   

  SDS in the sometimes dry swampy area under the left side of the roof on the detached boulder.  There should be a good edge for a left hand and a decent foot.  Pull up and squeeze through slopers to the top of the detatched block.  Once you top the little boulder then continue on for pitch #2 to topout on Cascadia.

Stand start on some nice brushed ledges hidden in the moss.  Climb straight up through smaller ledges to an easy topout.

This one is my favorite warm up when starting the day on the boulder, so I figured I'd give it a name.  

  Find a nice crimp rail about 5 feet to the right of 'Space Invaders'.  Sit start on incut crimps and cold feet under the low shady roof.  Lock-off to the large slot, establish on the face, and commence the casual jaunt to the top.

If you live in the Blacksburg Area and like to boulder than there is no reason not to come to the Cascades at least once. The biggest reason in my opinion is for this boulder in particular (there are several other amazing boulders and a kickass waterfall, but the Cascadia Boulder is SO CLOSE!)...    The Cascadia Boulder is literally 2 minutes worth of level and downhill walking from the parking-lot, and it offers v2, v5, v7/8, and v11 potential... All the while being in a scenic forest and stream-side setting. Whats not to love? 

  This boulder has two short vertical sides and a front with an 8-9 foot vertical roof. Solid landing... 

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