Stay on the orange lichen found right of a thin vertical crack in the rock. The route gets slabby with small huecos before turning vertical. Follow the overhanging crack full of bird shit covered jugs to the top.

Orange You Lichen This Route?

Green Lichen Means Go

Stay on the green lichen found left of the thin vertical crack. Make your way up easy slab with huecos to the overhanging pocketed bulge feature. Do not fear the lichen, do not veer left or right, head straight up the overhanging pocketed bulge(this is the crux). There are holds to accomplish this I swear. The face above the overhanging bulge is covered in green lichen, but the good holds have been cleaned off/or are obvious. The last mini crux is a mantle move to finish out and reach the anchors.

A 30 foot tall chunk of volcanic rock whose northern side is covered in green and orange lichen.  The routes are found on the Northwest side of the rock, and a set of anchor bolts are easily accessible by scrambling up the East side of this rock. This along with the Key Hole Boulders is a semi-established area that's in the same boulder field as the rest of the Washoe Boulders. If you find this spot in a guide book under a different name I wouldn't be surprised.

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