Located on the seclusive Nine Lives Boulder, the arete offers a great problem in an awesome location.

Beta: left hand in a tiny pocket with a drop-knee starts the problem. Move through sharp pockets to a large left-hand pinch. Put-up a high right heel-hook, and then reach for a decent slot (heel-hook is key for the static move, otherwise just launching to the slot is a ton of fun). Reach-up past the sidepull to a crimp, find feet, and throw to the back of the bulge to find something to hold onto; work your toes-up and pull the mantle. Now you have another 20 feet of easy and exciting slab climbing.

Nine Lives Arete

Double Dick Dyno

This is one of Castlewood's hard classics.

Start matched on a large, smooth cobble with smeared feet. Moved into the large hueco in the middle of the face using a small LH crimp. Set-up for the "dyno" to the next ledge (most people can do this move static). Next is topping out this large boulder. Note, you may want to check the topout first as it usually is covered in pine-needles.

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Routes in Nine Lives Boulder