Kyle Rowden

Hard test piece with some scary commit. Solo with one pad. I tethered myself to the tree so I didn't roll off the outcrop.

Worth doing for sure.

Crazy Hard for me. I have no clue where this boulder stands. Its height and finger sized dependent. Skinny fingers can probably use other pockets, taller people maybe able to grab the better pocket. Start on Fists Full of pistols, do the first move. Grab the pistol grip with the right hand and go big up to the 1/2pad crimp pocket. use an intermediate and go to the lip. topout. One of the best in Arkansas. Maybe this thing is just a piss hard V8 move with some mid grad climbing around it. Hopefully someone repeats this, its classic.

Been saving this roof for the fall. One of the coolest boulder/cave features I've come across in NE Ark. I'm going to put this up there with any other Classic V6 in Arkansas. The full Horizontal Separator Project will be amazing.

I'd been looking at this for years and as far as I know this has never been done from the sit. At first glance it may look contrived at first but it isn't and its a gem.

Piss hard fingerlocks. Such a fat finger crack that even my fingers had a hard time locking.

Probably been done but maybe not. Pretty good little boulder problem. Reminds me of the tops to a few of his bigger brother routes.

Drock classic? Got the spray paint and the broken glass to prove it. Right on the road with its name tattooed on its side. Rad finish move. I'll give it 2 thumbs up.

good warmup

First go today. Nt sure what happened the last time I was out here other than it being 90+ degrees....but that shouldn't be an excuse.

Handful of tries at the end of my first day at Strawberry. 1hr. today. Doesn't feel as stout as O/C. Good one.

Start on Nipple Down and keep rolling left into the finish of Well Worked Over. Solid7/LOw8? Fell off the last move of The Cellar, almost there.

15 min. 93 degrees. Thin and awkward. The full line will go! Started making links on the sit. 16+ move, V11+ Testpiece. Cant wait til fall conditions!!

93 degrees. Had to resuss my sequence. One of the best for the grade in the state! Delicate power compression/tension problem.

I know what Twain said but as for me; The coldest winter I've ever spent was an August in the Ozarks... Crisp out today after all of the storms. 1+ year and 100+ tries on these 2 moves into the stand start. I will throw this grade out and see what people think when this gets repeated. I would assume this could be much easier if you are shorter than me. Somewhere between hard V8-EasyV10?

One of the best in the State. Earned my send today in the heat.

Awesome! Almost got the OS.

Really good! Venom into Black Mamba. Almost flashed. Stuck the jug and then greased off. As good as Mamba!

Cook's vision. Looked easy until we kept falling off. Thin techy balance problem. Might be easier in good conditions. Fingers are wrecked.

good first moves!

Contrived straight up variation of Deception. Very left hand crimp intensive. Been trying this on and off since the beginning. Contrived but hard. 100% humidity. Might be easier in better temps.

Short but cool.

Awesome new addition to Lone Wadi. Horsepens Style Sloper Problem. Probably much easier in crisp weather.

Sloper dyno.

Big Dyno. Just in time for the Tornadoes.

Figured out the V5 beta so I wouldn't break my foot in half.

thin traverse. at the end of an 8hr session. trashed.

classic movement.

Ultra Classic highball. Vomitous commitment. SICK!

Few tries this go round. Much better fresh.

Cool Powerful dyno. Tension and release. Strangely similar to the start of Low Gravs.

5 days to suss beta and probably 60+ attempts at sticking the crimp. Height dependant deadpoint to a precise hand position. Not sure where this one stands. Wasnt sure i was ever going to succeed.

Took forever to suss. Once again...Vomitous Commitment on the topout.

Not sure on name. Blackout crazy contortion and body tension. Not really sure how I managed to send at the end of the day.

Probably the most badass choss pile ever. I dyno'd to a arm bar...WTF! Almost double dragon'd in the offwidth. Felt like doing a 3 minute interval of Burpees.

pocket slots.

Awesome sloper arete pinches.

I was griped at the final deadpoint move. Vomitous Commitment.

3rd try. unleash the grrrrr. OC is beyond me right now.

Super cool sequence with a nohands kneebar in the crux. Topped out right. Direct topout would be cool.

Awesome Movement. Horsepens Style in East Ark!!

This climb has a cadence to it like nothing i've climbed. Perhaps the best line at The Gasfields.

Height dependent. Ripped a big flapper. Harder than the original. Eliminate needs to be connected into Moving Pieces...That will be hard.

Traverse. Left to right. adds a little more to Cedar Right.

Piss hard move into Blistering Ivy finish. By the numbers V7 into 12 moves of solid 6/7. Hard 8...easy9? over one year of trying all the parts of this rig. Boulder is Done!

One very hard, low percentage temp and friction dependent throw. Could be harder, maybe easier, needs repeats. over one year trying this move on and off.

Core Up!

Cool. to cold this morning for routes.

sneaky os beta....dankness

brilliant low percentage deadpoint. the link up is the kingline.

Improbable circus tick 8 foot horizontal deadpoint. Rarely repeated

sick zone.

feel wrecked. just barely. damn you Armageddon.

Aptly named and a beautiful line.

low ball but cool moves.

water everywheres

Such a cool problem. Compression and tension the whole way. Took me a while to put together all of the moves but then it all went together so well in the sleet and snow. Eastern Ark Testpiece.

Cool line. Low start is much better.

Looks easier than it is.

Really cool movement.

Very powerful and delicate tension. probably easier the smaller you are. Low ball start but high quality movement.

very low percentage awkward barndoor deadpoint to slot.

Starting holds are a little crispy from the fire but this is a great problem.

Finally stuck the move to the slot and got my finger stuck. Top maybe loose. Making the deadpoint from the sit will be hard in link.

Almost with the os. Really cool problem.

Pure fun.

Giant move!

Crazy cross thru deadpoint. not sure how I stuck it.

Dont scalp yourself.

Circus Trick. Last move is like being launched from a trebuchet.

Cool move to cobble egg but really sharp crystals on the finish.

Slopers.

Really fun problem.

Classic Slab. Great movement.

Burl.

Good one.

Classic. Awesome cobble.

So scary on the send. 2 small pads in the landing zone of the topout and nothing for the rest of the problem. Arkansas Classic.

Fun. glad i burned that rat out.

Best problem in the Gasfields. Hands down. Darcy's Law variation is going to be rad!

sds same as Surface Displacement but stay left. Grab a 2finger pocket with the right hand and fire up to the top with the left.

great steep power problem. had to burn a 12 foot long pack rat mansion to clear out The Cellar. He ran to his other home, unharmed.

The Sit Start (Nipple Down) is going to be Burl.

Sit was soaking wet. Going to one of the best lines in the Eastern Ark.

bucks me almost everytime.

Awesome Slimper move.

Right most.

Three phase flow.

traverse.

Dyno off of left hand pocket right hand slopey crimp to the ledge.

Classic!

a little tricky

Really cool mantle

big finish move. Really cool movement if you look past the soft rock quality.

Piss hard first move for me. Greasy sausage fingers to a 1/2 pad 2 finger deadpoint off a foot that wouldnt stick gave me a fit. I'll Tumble for Ya is rad and stout

Delicate balance and precise foot to explosive one move. Hard for me. (Listed on the wrong boulder)

Tricky Soaking wet finish spit me off a few times.

Great slab.

Hard last dead point. Hard for me to not blow my right toe. Classic.

Inbetween backseat spooning and Slope Shelf. Cool.

better than expected from a butt dragger.

Really good.

will be a good one after some cleaning.

Dry warmup. needs to be topped out.

Sketchy topout. V1 with a clean topout. Yikes.

I don't even know if the sit is possible.

Fun warmup.

Fun Warmup.

Beautiful perfect line on the creek. No Pad.

I can't campus to save my life.

Good Finish.

Broke a hold on the first try. Mobley kicked the dead tree over and opened up the wall for this badass traverse. Classic.

SDS on Fists Full of Pistols and move right at the second set of pockets to a throw to a right pod. Smear a foot on and go to the top.

Arete just off the horse trail. Start under the roof work out to jugs and then top out on the arete.

Grab holds in the middle of the lip of the roof. campus up to good crimpers and head straight up to the top.

warmup

fun problem.

sds on matched crimp seam move up and right to 2-finger pockets and a sloper rail. highball top out.

Just barely had enough. done for the day. Good first day back in the ARK.

Warmup

The straight up finish

Cool Line to the right of the tree.

Powerful short roof on small crimpers. Classic!

You'll be wishing you have one.

Warmup.

SDS on the leftside of the arete move up and to a big left throw.

Very Committing V1 Highball.

Direct Finish to Low Gavs. Tricky Topout.

Very low percentage move for me. Had to keep trying until i stuck the move.

One of the most classic boulder problems in Eastern Arkansas. So good. Line out left "BonaFide Hustla" is going to be V8-10.

Cool line I cleaned up at the Trap House. sds on the arete to tricky and very committing top out.

SDS to the right of Ital Roots, hit the mono and make a big dead point out left.

hard and a little scary.

cool and very very committing with one pad and no spotter.

Sneaky beta made this doable.

hard.

Really Classic. Felt hard to me.

Caught Wind River Canyon at Dawn. Drove up. Fired.

Dawn Patrol on the road to NoDak.

Hard but not as hard as the Green Mile

I may have made this harder than it needed to be.

Good One. Pretty Green Face.

Low Laydown start to Poor Pawns.

Traverse the lip from low right all the way around to Iron Roughneck topout.

Good One.

Fun power problem.

SDS on the crimps and fire all the way to the top.

Left to Right traverse into the Finish of Mud Weight. Watch out for the tree. Stout.

Stand Start to Campus. Mantle finish.

Felt hard to me. Maybe because it was new and still wet. Maybe cause I'm weak. But either way this thing is rad.

Really cool slab problem and unique for mossy bluff. Felt hard the first time i tried it the day after lasik surgery. Couldnt see the feet. Makes all the difference in the world being able to see. Spicy topout might be the crux. One handed mantle. Shoveling off the lip would make it easier and less dirty. Don't think I have the reach for Judo Chop.

cool variation.

The Straight Up. Didn't seem like this had been done but maybe it had. The top out had fistfuls of pine needles and dirt. Cleaned it off.

Pretty sure this is an FA. Start matched on crimper mailbox slot and move left into the slanting sidepulls/gastons of 20/20.

Really unique crux on the raddest choss around.

Think Mark said this used to have a different name. There was a jug at the lip that snapped off. Fired this skipping the crimps and the sloper. Straight from the jug to the pocket.

Steep power. Really good roof problem

lip traverse left to right all the way out to the slopey top out at the point of the Roots Manuva Boulder.

hard sds.

One of the craziest beta move circus tricks i've ever figured out. Another Classic from Lone Wadi.

Good warm up to a hard topout that needs cleaning. After that it should be good to go.

Not sure if this is an FA or the line previously tried. Climbed this in the evening with very little cleaning. Felt much harder, but I'm guessing it will settle in around 4/5 after proper cleaning. Several other lines left. Good Problem.

SDS on the left side of the boulder. Other wall is off. Start on 2 crimpers. Smear feet on and make a powerful left hand crimper undercling standup move. Top out straight up.

Start under the roof on a jug flake. Move out to the face and traverse into On My Lean.

SDS on a left hand slopey gaston and a right hand pinch 6" directly above it. slap feet on and make a move low and to the left to a very slopey rail. Then throw hard left hand to the start of "The End" Finish on THE END.

Felt hard for me. popped off of everything. Couldn't fire Re-Ignition. I will be back. Moss Rock Preserve is pure EXCELLENCE!!!

CLASSIC! I'll take it.

90 Degrees had to try hard sweatin' like a whore in church.

Not bad with correct beta, even in direct sunlight through the trees.

Tried hard and was scared to fall but there is no way the guidebook was correct on this one. OS in the Southern heat.

CLASSIC!

Scary. One and Done. I don't really know what is holding that giant flake on the ceiling.

Campus/Dyno. Used to be a video of this thing back in the day. Really cool Problem. Have to stack stones and pads to establish on the start hold. Or be able to crimp dunk on the a regulation rim.... so i stack stones.

Its tuff but the finger locks hurt more than difficulty. Couldnt tape because of my sausage fingers. DOPE!

Took me for ever to do Check Mate today. Front Corridor Circuit. Humidity has a brutal sense of humor.

Dawn Patrol

All Points off all out dyno dunk 15 feet off the ground. Remember this bad ass problem from way back in the day. Double Session for the day. Arkansas 5am - Alabama 9pm.

I tried this quite a few times back in the winter months and couldn't do any of the moves and somehow this morning I managed to piece all the moves together and fire the full sit to completion. Tension!!! Dawn Patrol pays off waking up @ 5am.

Very similar to Sound the Alarm SDS. Another nostalgic problem for North Alabama.

Super sick problem. Double Sesh. The Pearl is impossible for me in this heat! What was I thinking.

Tough slopers in the night with the humidity and a tiny headlamp. Scary Alabama noises got me on red alert.

Backstabber into Reptilian Shapeshifter. No harder. just the full circumnavigation of the boulder.

Backwoods Assassin into Reptilian Shapeshifter.

Surprised the undercling has not broken. Lots of potential for this place. People just need to pick up trash and use hammers, crowbars, and files to pry off all of the loose flakes and razor sharp edges.

Cool problem. 80 degrees and so muggy.

Liked this one the best.

Very left side of the Hilltop Boulder. Start on Righthand three finger pocket and climb the orange face and arete.

Took me a go to figure out the beta. Start in the back of cave. Big move to jug and pocket in roof. Fire over the lip to right hand crimpers. Big finish move to jug. Topout. Probably has been done before.

Butt dragger start into mono cross to very sharp jug that might break.

Onsighted the "crux" mantle. Then fired it first go from the sit. Super good but nothing near 9 or 8 or 7.

One move wonder.

Classic problem but there is no way. Solid 6? Super cool cross over on slopers and a burly mantle. 2nd go.

Actually kinda cool. Had to brush thick moss off a bunch of holds. dont think this has been climbed in a few seasons.

Awesome problem. Definetly harder than Devil May Cry.

Super fun slopers and mantle. Really good.

Had to dig deep for the finish. Classic!

Campus!!

40ft To the right of The Fin. Cool problem.

Super Classic.

Took some effort.

Seemed soft. Havent climbed in a month minus yesterday. Awesome cave.

Didnt top out cause i wasn't on rope. Reversed at the roof and dropped onto pad. Webbs dyno looks big.

Start on The Nonathan and roll around the side into Tree of Life. Committing top out.

Scary Top out but its all there. Tried to stack some rocks to protect the landing. Other Variant at the same grade is Starting on the Nonathan and climbing into ITs good too. Tree of Life.

Start in the back of the cave on a jug undercling. Work out the under cling crack and make a big move to the lip. Crux mantle topout.

Use you mind and stop the train. Stick to the rock like a lizard. Don't dab on the tree and keep the troops moving til Check Mate. Dope!!

Pretty cool little boulder. pockets, heels, and squeezin'.

Just right of Toad Stool. Make two moves and then power to the lip.

The Full traverse. Took a long time to figure out the moves and have dry holds. Starts on Stumpy and goes all the way to Cedar Right. 23 moves... give or take.

Finally cleaned the poison ivy and loose rock off of this one. Really good if the feet don't break. Start on Cornbred and go right through a sloper to a flat ledge. Huck to the arete and topout. Good.

Don't Dab. Cool problem that exercises complete control and body tension.

Starts on a right hand pocket and goes straight up.

Probably one the coolest FA's i have done so far. Exposure. Bad ass feature. Babbling brook below. Definetly the Super Classic at Mossy Bluff.

SDS on pockets for both hands. Fire to the flat bloc. Up to a sloper and a sloper pinch, big move to the lip and top out straight up on small sloper crimpers. Top out is the crux. Bailing right makes this V2.

Sds just left of Inception. Using the right wall of Conception. Big left hand throw to a jug. compression and tension to good incuts and top out. Sds sans right wall will be much harder. 5 or 6?

sds just right of Inception. Stay on the right wall and use the left trending diagonal crimps to top. Bullet hard Sandstone.

SDS and climb the short but brilliant finger crack. Bomber stone.

Sds just right of down climb of Conception. Go straight up on good feet and slopey holds. Balancy.

Start on the west side of the overhanging point on The Flux Pavillion Boulder. (10' left of The Nonathan)Start on juggy seam. Head staight up to top out staying left of the sloper on the lip of the overhang.

Same start as Biscuits but make a move right under the roof w/ left hand to a crimp. fire up with the right hand to a sloper. Match. high feet and go left hand to a big incut. Topout.

SDS start on "cedar right" and move left into "The Nonathan." Crimps, sidepulls, compression. Its got it all. Classic.

Feet, Feet, Feet

Good Warmup

AWESOME!!

stays out of the rain. what is on and what is off for these problems.

liked the top out. someone said that the left hand crimp broke...don't think it makes anything harder.

probably a more realistic grade. good warmup on big holds. scrunchy.

Super Classic. multiple variations.

Great Slide pulls and oppositions. To bad this is not a line all by itself.

Stays dry in the rain.

really good.

feet, feet, feet.

Start on jug on the left of Le Beak. Dyno to the finish of Le Beak. Fun super man. watch out for that boulder.

6 feet right of Cedar Right. Grab a left hand 3finger pinch and a slopey cresent hold. Put feet on and fire up and right to the lip. Hand jam and top out. Classic.

Starts on the left overhang of the Flu Pavillion boulder just left of the two trees. steep moves to a cool openhanded side pull finish over some scary rocks.

SDS on Stumpy. Hit the lip and move left across slopers to a crimp and top out above Flux Pavillion Project. Good and solid.

Another warm up. North East arete on the backside of the Flux Pavillion boulder

SDS on a flat block. put your feet on and fire to the crimp at the lip and top out.

Probably 50+ boulder problems could be in this little cluster. Quality stuff is across the road. Have to safe it for next time.

Pretty cool half circle traverse on good stone. Lots and lots of amazing boulders. Roof projects look really gOod.

Good little problem.

First problem done here.

High ball. A must do southern classic!!

Super Cool arete. Did this 5 or 6 years ago. Good warm up.

same start as Ghost and Stuff but head straight out and over. the warmup.

start on squeeze pinches on the right side of the overhand. throw out around lip and traverse left out to the point and top out.

Absolutely Amazing. start above boulder on jug pinch. work out and right on huecos and pinches staying right of tree to lip and go straight up. project looks bad ass but hard. big moves.

strange sandstone

Great stone

the traverse Left to right.

immaculate stone

The freakin' line. ultra classic. great holds, power and balance.

sneaky beta.

Not as cool as the pic of Boone makes this one look.

cali cookies :)

barefoot.

stays dry in the rain, at least until the topout

cool start.

its sharp!

shitty sandy area minus Worm Turns.

Not bad

shorty

i thought it was fun.

Absolutely Terrifying! but great

gay eliminate

boooosh. Take Flight

cool.

most convenient boulder ever.

saw a dude punt from the top. couldn't believe my eyes.

Scary!! didn't have the pad in the right place.

Badass

awesome cluster.

southern slab style.

Good Problem next to camp

felt hard.

Scary down palming...high feet...recipe for disaster.

dawn patrol..

yeaa. only 20mph winds.

40mph winds. weather battleground.

headbanger....

awesome dyno to freaky topout.

the best warmup.

How does one ever get a weather window to climb here or god forbid, Notch Peak? Blowing sand and snow.

left line. fun climbing.

center line

jugggs.

cool climbing.

cool holds. sweet topout.

cool boulder.

damn that last throw. excavation sds. who knows what more erosion may yield.

cool. slick feet.

Knees.

great! shady in the pm

Leapin' Leptons

In the shade

razors...oouch.

tips are shot. the sit looks epic. one day perhaps...

way to hot for slopers.

a perfect boulder problem.

bad ass tall line. if this is the correct problem. Tall with scary fall.

awesome toehooks, heelhooks, tension and release. BILL FUCKIN' MURRAY Project!!! Fell off the last move.