Long traverse across the left face of the main Charcoal Exhibition Boulder, top out before dihedral. Nice easy climb for first timers or to run a few laps on, before moving on to the harder problems on the boulder or in the area.

 

Walk Along the Furnace

Static Dyno

Hot Forged

Mortar

The Furnace

Hollow Ware

Pestle

Bulge

Iron Oxide

The Crucible

Plow Point

Static Shock

The Full Package

Scale Weight

Static Age

Black Oxide

Horse Anchor

Jump The Fire

Ingot

Start on the far left bit of the CE Boulder and traverse right into the start of Bulge and finish up that. Some particulars:- You don’t come all the way down to the undercling at the start of Bulge. Instead, I ended up traversing into the problem such that my right hand was on a decent, small, very incut and sharp crescent shaped crimp and my left was on the credit card that you hit left hand as the first hold on Bulge. - Yes, it’s somewhat contrived and silly.- The grade- Bulge is probably the softest 7 in the universe, and most of this traverse adds nothing, however, the last few moves before you’re on Bulge proper I felt were quite hard and added a bit to the problem, hence the grade of 7B. I’m not a grading authority, it may be much easier.- I might not be the FA. If you are or know someone who’s already done it, let me know so I can give them credit.

An eliminate version of Static Shock and Static Age that doesn't use the arete or the high undercling. Start as per Static Shock/Age and move to the angled crimp rail. From there, dyno straight to the high left jug.

Hot Forged (V4-V5) climbs the prominent arete at the center of the Charcoal Exhibition Boulder.  Start on the lowest, left-facing flake (same as The Furnace), and pull onto the blunt arete above.  Use thin crimps and friction to climb the corner to the top.

Mortar begins on a right-facing flake/undercling five feet left of The Furnace.  Move right and up, following the undercling seam to less-steep terrain.  Top out on the dark-streaked jugs.

The Furnace climbs the prominent fissure and dihedryl that splits the Charcoal Exhibition Boulder.  Start low and right of the crack on the lowest left-facing flake.  Work left and into the angle using the hand crack and underclings, then use both faces to follow the crack to the top.

Starts on same undercling as Scale Weight, but you move right, not quite going into Horse Anchor

Pestle (V1-2) starts to the right of The Furnace fissure/dihedryl, but moves further left of the fissure for the topout.  Start right of The Furnace on the same left-facing flake that starts many other climbs.  Move up and left, passing the dihedryl and following the white lichen up the right-facing wall.  Top outs same as Mortar.

sit start on small crimps climb up through crimps to the obvious bulge, climb through the bulge and top out.

Iron Oxide (V2-3) climbs the prominent flake system just right of the Hot Furnace Fissure at the Charcoal Exhibition Boulder.  Start low on the left-facing flake, then use the series of seams up and right to ascend the left side of the dark bulge.  Thin hands are helped by better feet up high.

The Crucible (V5) climbs the face just right of The Furnace fissure and diedryl.  Start low on the left-facing jugs and ascend the face above, moving through the bulge on thin, razor-sharp crimps, avoiding any holds on the arete.  The terrain just above the horizontal seam is the crux of the problem.

Plow Point (V1) is a short climb up fine seams just left of The Furnace.  Start on a low, right-facing flake/undercling (same start as Mortar).  Climb straight up the slight seam to the top, avoiding the obvious crack and flakes to the left.

Sit start on large chalked up hold and move up through finger jugs to a thin crimp rail. Reach out left to the arete, set your feet, and move straight up to a far away jug. Jugs through the topout. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GO8bky558w&t=5s

Starts a few feet to the left of Horse anchor. Start on undercling and move left into tiny crimps, pulling up into jugs

Sit/squat start on the series of crimps and move up through finger jugs to a thin right-facing side pull about 10ft off the ground. From here move out left to a huge jug. Easy finish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAYzplZUrgs&t=4s

Black Oxide climbs up the right side of the center Charcoal Exhibition Boulder bulge, to the right of Iron Oxide. Sit start low on undercling and sidepull, move up through crimps and ascend the right side of the dark bulge.

Horse Anchor (V0-1) makes use of seam and flake systems on the Charcoal Exhibition Boulder.  Start on a low, right-facing flake/undercling (same start as Mortar and Plow Point).  Move up and left to the prominent flake and seam system; follow to the top.

Sit with both hands on the same undercling that marks Black Oxide- just in front of the tree.  Pull from the undercling and stand to the large crimp above, then move directly right. Stretch your way to the first and obvious large horizontal facing feature.  Work through the features above and finish by climbing over the tallest of them- don't bail early and move to the right between the flake and the lower portion of the wall- instead climb directly up and over the features.

Ingot climbs the shorter, right side of the Charcoal Exhibition Boulder. Start on a head height and right facing sloper-jugs. Move up the face to the top.

The Charcoal Exhibition Boulder is probably the most easily accessed climbing in all of Catoctin Mountain Park. Located directly next to the Charcoal Exhibit parking area, the long face features a series of low-angle climbs up a low face split by a prominent fissure down the middle.  Landings are all on easy terrain and no routes are terribly exposed, making CEB a perfect warmup before tackling other areas in the park.

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