Awesome rock with a cruxy last move make this one of the best V9s in the area and a must do if you are hitting up Emerald.

Start on the big rail (starting on the left end of the rail adds a few extra moves if you're into that), then power up some ill moves culminating with a throw to the lip.

Real Large

Tommy's Other Arete

The Kind (originally In Your Face, then Standard Overhang - after the block was removed)

Beginner's Luck

The Breadoaf

Mr. Wimpy SDS

Swing of Things

And I Thought, What the F*ck

Storm Shadow Stand

Kind Traverse, The

Warm-Up Boulder

Lobster Tail

The End

Tiger Stripes

Warm Up

Purple Drank aka Arete V8

Invisibility Cloak

Dawn Patrol

Leopard Print

Swang of Thangs

The Cube V5

The Cube V6

Lobster Claw

Kneebar

Kind of a Big Deal

The Bread Loaf

Whispers of Wisdom

Mr. Wimpy

The Kind sitstart

The crux is the first move.  Start on the rail underneath the original start.

I'm not a local but thought it was weird this wasn't on MP.

Slap your way up the striking knife of rock to an exhilarating topout.

The crux is making the long reach for the good slot/pocket/crimp jug (crug).  Landing is fair since the boulder overhangs a small slab.  Start on a left-facing jug at the center of the wall, move slightly left.

This problem was established earlier by Jim Hurst, Jim Belcer, and Dean Potter as "In Your Face" due to a large block at the top of the route that would crush your face.  After it was removed the name was changed to "Standard Overhang."  History noted.  I have chosen to keep the name The Kind to aid in identifying the route since virtually everyone calls this the Kind.

Start low on good ledge, and move up positive edges to the top.

Sit start at the base of the dihedral, and climb straight out using edges and a gaston culminating in a long move over the bulge to the "bread loaf" pinch. Top out on an easier slab.

This is a variation to The

Kind

that starts and finishes the same. It is contrived but a fun problem nonetheless and is a little harder than The

Kind

but easier than the traverse.

Start seated, and move into the stand

jug as per The

Kind

, and make a couple moves before going out left to a pockety crimp (crux) and then up right to the mini-jug. Do the same topout.

Start standing with a good left hand and a bad pinch for the right. Move left using funky beta or your freakish strength, whichever you perfer. Follow the arete to the top or rock around. Either way you're climbing through pine branches.

This problem has clearly been done before, based on the copious amounts of chalk on all of the holds. I couldn’t find it on Mt. project or in the Mt. Evans/RMNP bouldering guidebook. Please reply with the name, FA, and actual grade.

Sit start with your left hand on a poor pinch and your right hand on a sharp crimp. Move your left hand to the sidepull with a thumb catch, then move out your right hand (dynamically for me) to a great hold. Go up to the top on more great holds, including a massive undercling for your right hand.

Start with a right hand on arete and a left hand on a sidepull. Make a tough first move up with your left hand, and fight your way through the left arete all the way to the lip.

This problem starts as for

The Kind (originally In Your Face, then Standard Overhang - after the block was removed)

.  However, move left along the series of crimps that ultimately deposit you into a large (jug) crack.  There are several ways of topping it out that all tick in at the same difficulty.

It gets two stars because of its low-ball and ass-dragging nature.

Two cruxes:

The first crux: is getting the "pocket."  It is about three moves in.  There are two ways of doing it.  Either shuffle your hands to negotiate a high heel hook, or do a tricky bicycle.

The second crux:  There are three ways of doing this.  After matching the right-facing gaston, hit the low jug.  Shuffle your feet down to either to a big dynamic move to a sloper with a crimp in the back or heel hook the jug by your left hand.

Variations:  Super Kind (V12) does a traverse into

The Kind (originally In Your Face, then Standard Overhang - after the block was removed)

.  You can get a knee bar at the beginning of

The Kind (originally In Your Face, then Standard Overhang - after the block was removed)

.  Low Kind (V10) skip the second crux by doing the ultimate ass dragger along the crimps that the Kind Traverse uses as feet (yes, this is easier).  A V8 starts at the jug half way through the Kind Traverse.

Start on a good ledge, and climb jugs to the top.  It is super fun!

This boulder is located on the Lobster Claw Boulder directly to the right. Start on an obvious jug, and climb straight out the belly.

The end, is the end of

The Kind Traverse

. Start low on jugs and either crank left on small crimps, or up and left via heel hook. Hit the large crack out left and top out left on jugs.

Stand start on two crimps and move up to underclings and over a sloping roof.

This is a nice little warm-up or a good way to get some confidence before trying some harder stuff in the area.  It is on the far right side on the same massive boulder of

The Kind (originally In Your Face, then Standard Overhang - after the block was removed)

(V5).  Sit start with two low jugs and good low feet.

The crux for most is in the middle of the problem going from a good jug low to a horn-like hold high with the right hand.  There are two more moves after this and a easy topout.  Walk off back and to the left.

This is the first problem you see when you walk up to The Large Boulder. It starts on a juggy block feature. Climb your way up the blocky jugs to the crimpy top section. Top out is a bit desperate, but just stay focused on your feet, and reach way up to a great victory jug. It is a fun problem and good warm-up for Tommy's Other Arete.

On the large boulder, start

Purple Drank

, V8, but go left to a good left hand hold on the arete and straight up on thin holds.

Start on the east side of the Belcer Roof Boulder about 4 feet right of the Kneebar Boulder. Using a large undercling/sidepull, make a few short but powerful moves out of the small roof onto the sloping ramp.

Stand start on two crimps ten feet to the right of

Tiger Stripes

. Find technical feet directly below and to the right of the start. Move up through a low crux on solid crimps to bigger holds halfway up. Top out on larger features out right.

Swang of Thangs is super fun and very powerful. Start sitting with your left hand on the sloping ledge and your right hand on the perfect block. Have your left foot in a heel-toe cam way out left with your right foot smeared. Lock off your right arm, and power into the huge sidepull. Release the heel-toe camm and place your left foot just below the heel-toe spot. With your right foot, drop your knee HARD on the same smear, and come right hand into an intermediate crimp at about eye level, then bump right hand to a sloper at the lip of the boulder. Then top it out.

Start with a left hand side pull on the left face and small crimp on the right. Make a big move to a good pinch on the arete and continue to the top.

Stand start under the small roof with a left hand sidepull and an undercling with the right hand. Make several powerful moves out of the roof to the vertical face.

Lobster Claw has good moves on chunky, coarse rock. The eponymous hold is pretty cool.

Work your way from low, good crimps, dark in color, on a right-facing ramp feature, and climb straight up through the lobster claw hold. This hold has miraculously remained in place, a testament to the bullet rock at Emerald.

Make fun moves on big holds out the steep wall through a pinch and great kneebar!

This is a contrived but excellent power endurance problem on the Kind Boulder.  Start on the far right side of the wall that holds the problem "

The Kind

" and traverse left following an arching seam. Drop down

The Kind

a few moves and do the crux sequence of the problem Mr. Wimpy and top out back right on the kind.  This is just like at Flag/Morrison/The Gym but in reality ohh so much better!

Start at the base of the dihedral, and climb up making use of edges and a gaston culminating in a long move over the bulge to the "bread loaf" pinch. Continue on easier terrain up the slab topout.

One of the very best boulder problems in all of Colorado.  Starts on two opposed crimps and makes a desperate move to a good, left-facing edge.  Continue through a series of compression, slappy moves.  There are three hard moves on this boulder problem.  The first is the first move.  The second is a long reach on a blocky undercling to a decent, incut crimp.  The third is at the lip moving from a terrible sloper to a decent full pad crimp.  Lots of people fall turning the lip... and there's a 25 foot slab (hint: trend [not traverse] right).  Originally rated V11, this problem has since been down rated.  10.7 in my opinion.

This is a variation to

The Kind

that starts and finishes the same. It is contrived but a fun problem nonetheless and a little harder than

The Kind

but easier than the traverse.

Start on a big jug as per

The Kind

, and make a couple moves before going out left to a pockety crimp (crux) and then up right to the mini-jug. Do the same top-out.

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