Mantle into the scoop and reach to a fingernail seam with your left hand as a gaston. Get your right foot up into the scoop with much difficulty and get a shallow 2 finger pocket make moves up to the rightish where a seam exits the top of the scoop. 

  You can't just pull harder to do this problem.

What's the Scoop

Slappy problem

Soft Fluffy Bunnies

Lost Descent

Start on the left facing rail and make moves up to its top or start there. Make a long move up over the lip to a hard to see dish/edge for your right hand. Pull over into the right facing mini dihedral to topout. 

  Carefully work your way over right across the slab to a point where you can jump to the adjacent boulder that sits beneath Soft Fluffy Bunnies.

Pull on with some difficulty and slap up with your left to a block then up with your right to another block. A couple of easier moves leads to a difficult top out on thin hard to see holds. To descend, turn around and jump onto the boulder behind the problem, preferably with a pad.

One of the best problems in Ponderosa.  

  Start as for the Slappy Problem on an OK right edge and a sloping 1 1/2 finger pocket near the right side of the face. Make the first slap up left and jump to the square cut hold out right. Then instead of topping out, surf the big sloping rail out right. From the end of the rail work up the overhung face and arete to the point of the boulder. A somewhat hidden left side pull jug over the lip leads to a top out on some harder to find scoops and edges.  

  Turn around and jump down onto stacked pads on the lower boulder.

One sunny south facing problem, then a few on the north-east face tucked back behind some trees. Impressive north-west facing arete is unclimbed, as is the seemingly blank south-east face (there are shallow pockets up there).

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Routes in Lost Descent