Offwidth Bouldering Overview

There have been a number of offwidth boulder problems established in the last couple of years out here in the Boulder Batholith. This is a bit of an overview, working up by relative difficulty, though I'm sure the order is debatable.

-5.6 Crack


This is a taller warm-up in the rear of the Brickyard, pretty straight forward.


-Kickbrew




A lowball kick through moderate in the East Tracks. Good intro to getting the feet over the head.


-Topless Pillow Fight




A taller moderate north of the Brickyard.


-Pez


Wide to a slight bulge, out in the Northern Bourbons.


-Unknown Fate



Just above the Hidden Hall, which is also the entrance leading up to the Brickyard


-Big Slick




A committing layback in the Benchlands


-Captain Trips


An interesting a-frame invert problem in the Lower Moose Creek area

-Barbarella


Another a-frame, but this one is in the Northern Bourbons


-Grungeskull


Inverted dihedral problem out in the Anomalies, starts inverted, though a harder start could be established a bit further in...


-Kung Fu Kick Through

This is a precision kick through located in the East Tracks. Watch your head!

-Eastern Aframe

Low to the ground but hard. Hard invert, swing out to dimple(pictured), to a nasty sit up/mantel. East Tracks

-Western Aframe

Just west of the Eastern Aframe @ East Tracks.

-Hotdog in the Hallway

Out in the Druthers lies this awkward, but quality problem

-Fruh's Wide

Committing, awkward and unrepeated. The Brickyard

-Big Shoe Roof



Out near the Aspens, this problem utilizes baggy heel-toe jams, and alot of confidence to get to the lip



-Grindhouse



Out in the Benchlands is this ~20 foot roof crack. Hands to pinch to off width/squeeze flair.



projects:
-Brickyard Cave
-Inside Straight
-Jackie Brown's Fart Locker
-Wormhole



Cheers!

Big Bend Sequence (OT)

Mo shot these next pics when we took a sojourn through the Utah desert and spent a morning outside of Moab:








Great geometry and physics goin' on



Back to the Montucky stuff for a while...

Sunday in the Northern Bourbons

Nice day for climbing up on the Continental Divide! The growing heat has pushed us up into the higher altitudes of the Boulder Batholith, the Northern Bourbons fit the bill nicely. Ron and I met up with Hutch, and Dylan came over solo from Missoula. Max and a friend with a hard name to remember(sorry about that!) showed up bit later. A good amount of problems were climbed, including a handful of new ones. All in all a pretty fine day.


Dylan on a new one



Max on Copper Camp


Hard problem on the Mothership




Lever Action, Mothership Boulder


Max contemplates the upper section of another tall Whitmore problem




DB's Allstars


until next time...

Cheers!