Damon Vaughan

Learning to dangle. This thing was hard!

Nice. Couple this up with Not Bacon and it's worth visiting this area

Downpulling crimps. Sharp. Yum

Cool move in the middle, nice to top out this boulder.

Rad! After failing on Saigon every single time I come to Bishop, it's cool to top this boulder out!

Fantastic

This has broken. There's a rock scar, and in the book photo you can see the climber using a hold that's not there anymore. It's still rad, but not easier than V6, maybe harder.

Great problem, I had always wanted to try it and finally got around to it. A bit of an in-obvious start. I started at the same place shown in video here. Maybe a contrived lower start is V9?

Part of my obscure Happy's highballs tour. A good one!

Always wanted to do this thing but was intimidated. Those holds are solid, right?

A worthwhile variation for sure.

Doesn't really add too much difficulty to Potato Chip

Stunning line, I have always wanted to do this one.

Very unique features, kinda scary

Amazing line, definitely nice to have some snow beneath it!

Awesome and long. I think it's better and harder than Love Matters, but not the obvious line.

Really, a great line

Sustained and cool... not the best rock.

I'm guessing this is the problem to the right of "Aspen arete"? I liked it.

Steep!

Severely bungled the low moves but still pulled it off. Pretty cool line!

Highball classic. Saunders sighting led to send.

Great problem on great stone.

Burly, kinda like climbing in Rifle. Handjamming out the crack is not the way to go!

Awesome problem. I matched the left crimp, heelhooked, and went up left hand.

Amazing problem I'd never heard of before in Joes. Just above Low Tide, starts on a ridiculous tufa and climbs huge holds on a steep boulder.

Not even close to flashing it

Holy crap amazing line! Can't believe I hadn't heard anything about this one before

Moved left at top to jug crack. Felt a bit easy. Great line though!

Nice intro for me to the climbing at LCC. Slick!

Good, real good.

My longest boulder project yet. I seriously never thought I would do this thing. Today, vengeance is mine!

Damn good of course.

An intricate, thuggy sequence. Very skin friendly holds!

fun

Feet slick as glass. Harder than it looks

Roadside. As in, if you are not careful you will certainly be hit by a car while putting your shoes on.

Nice arete with a really long reach to sidepull crimp. Took some figurin'

Great line. Traverse right on an amazing crimp rail, then back left up the arete.

Thin and technical. Should get done more

Great highball. I don't think anybody ever climbs this, but it would be better if it cleaned up with more traffic.

Very Buttermilks-esque. Sharp and painful, but unique for the area. Stays tricky till the very end.

Always love climbing over a frozen river. Great problem despite a painfully sharp crimp. Toe down high step for the big move was key for me.

Something to do when you realize Canopener is way too hard

Awesome. Ungradeable

Lowball but with cool movement. Very skin friendly too. The hardest send I could manage on a four day trip to big bend!

Very interesting boulder problem which was a bit scary at the top

I think this is right. No name in the guidebook but found it on mountain project. Maybe the best line on the flat top boulder

Desperate. Reminds me a little of Water colors in Bishop.

Barefoot. Barely held the helicopter swing

Incredibly short but great fun

Freakin' awesome. Rock that is darker than satan

Awkward first moves. Then fun

Sit start to the overhanging refrigerator block problem on the punisher boulder

Took some effort for sure! I had to use a very cool toe hook

"necessary contrivance" pretty much sums it up. Not doing it would be silly because it has some of the best moves and rock in the Poudre.

In the back by Belcer's roof. I didn't use a kneebar but I still liked it.

A vicious, violent vertical voyage! The first move is extremely difficult for me.

So tricky. The best five feet of climbing ever.

Frustrating and fun

Fun slopey lip thing

I've spent so many fruitless sessions on this thing and was somehow finally able to do it. Not the most amazing problem, but it's a good excuse to use one of the coolest underclings ever!

A bunch of hard ass moves. No real crux, takes a lot of learning though. What a day!

Mighty confusing exiting this black hole. Hard work for me.

Like a mini Real Large. I was scared of the pit but didn't seem to be an issue

Awesome moves.

Just a damn good line

I can only look at something so many times without having to climb it. Rad toe hookery to sharpness

In upper chaos. If you're lookin at Skipper D and turn around your lookin at this one.

Awesome sit moves lead into a fun contrivance making for a long, varied, and pumpy outing.

The guidebook says it looks better than it climbs, but I think it climbs better than it looks. Crazy fun trick move to a balancy topout.

Awesome moves. Burly as shit. This is a great cave to climb in, much to come back for.

Very unique moves and great rock. Good one!

Colorado classic- I finally got around to it on a hot and humid day. Quite scary at the slopers on the top.

Cool pinch to start

My favorite on the boulder

Difficult and smeary for the first couple moves

Interesting...

Awesome line.

Nice and shady

Pounce on the rock like a tiger!

Sweet jugs

Interesting pockets down low

Awesome slopers, very unique for Joe's Valley

Hard for me. Would be a three star line for sure if it didn't start and finish on Wills.

Cool one on the back of the UMWA boulder.

cool pockets

Tough. Took some time to work it out.

Didn't think I'd be able to do it, but once I worked it out it didn't feel too bad. Great climb!

Tall scary and amazing. Saw it from the road a million times before I finally got around to doing it.

Sweet vertical slashes

Fierce low moves to cool shallow pockets. Beautiful black rock.

Best name ever. And a pretty cool climb too

Awesomely fun climbing on sub-par rock. The dyno at the end is wild.

At least 10 sessions over 3 or 4 seasons. Rode my bike up to Rotary today through 40 mph winds to finally put it down. I had the whole park to myself.

Definitely worth the hike. One of the coolest I did in Hueco. Surprisingly technical, took me a while to figure out how to get off the ground

Ridiculous roof climbing. Pure lunacy

One of my favorites from the trip. Not nearly as scary as I thought it was gonna be.

Incredible ripply blobby features. A million ways to climb it!

Looks cool, climbs well.

Great day... tour of the classics. This climbs even better than it looks

Starts on barefoot and climbs straight right to See spot run's start, then up SSR. Very fun movement

First trip to hueco, this one was high on the list. Incredible features

Wild feature in the middle of the Dark Heart, begs to be climbed.

Might actually be the best boulder problem I've ever climbed. Did it a couple times to make the hike worth it.

As good as everyone said it was gonna be... maybe better

Only in Hueco...

Just pure fun.

Beautiful dark rock with amazing steepness

Two cool moves. Awesome holds

I've wanted to climb this thing for a long time. Definitely lived up to everything I've heard about it

Amazing sloper feature. Unpleasant topout...

Awesome. This is the kind of stuff I was hoping to climb in Hueco

Never done a roof quite like this

Recent route climbing has paid off on this.

Skipped the big undercling

This was on my lifetime tick list. Psyched to finally do it!

jump start (kinda). honey milker seems impossible

I've wanted to do this one for a long time. Truly amazing boulder.

Really satisfying- my own project in the woods south of Pingree Park. At the end of a long irrigation ditch, just slightly uphill lies this boulder. A slopey right hand arete and two widely spaced left handholds are all you have to get to the top. Took 8 days of effort

An alluring arete that Ben found above Pingree. Kind of a strange one.

Horrifying

right of syringe

Very cool. Tough the whole way

Nice colorful rock, doesn't climb as well as it looks

On the godzilla boulder, around the corner to the left. Quite good.

The boulder problem on the far right of the boulder with "fog that surrounds".

Thin vertical technical masterpiece. My favorite at Arthur's

Dug out the stump for the super low start

Somewhere in the tablelands... High kneebar

Wow, beautiful climb! After break

Another bizarre way to escape the mouth...

30 feet? Scary, but not as scary as the downclimb!

Amazing! One of my new bishop favorites

Painful face moves to a very nice arete. quite a scary topout

painful!

insanely awkward and hard. but very nice looking

Sooooo fun I love this one! Surprisingly adding the traverse didn't make it too much harder. 5.13a?

Traverse to nowhere. Incredibly fun moves though

Absolutely freakin desperate. Felt as hard as disco diva to me

Really amazing. Glad we had a bunch of pads

sorta disappointing

Incredible rock... sorta sharp

Shouldery. V5?

Awesome problem- scary!

Surely one of the best v2's in bishop!

Awesome name, pretty cool problem

Excellent problem. A little bit of everything with a super fun jump finish

Sharp as hell, but way cool. Have to move very slowly on this

This took some work! Desperate finish

despite the contrivance and a weird sharp hold, it climbs well and is definitely worth doing

Really physical. Tricky to figure the beta out, but once I did it went quick

Sweet boulder but a bit painful

On ranger rock- fun and heel hook-ey

Excellent movement and a bit spicy up top!

Excellent steep moderate

Awesome highball. Scariest part might be the beginning, over the bad landing

Desperate! Painful too. But definitely a memorable line

Great line but a little painful on the fingers

gotta come back for the sit!

This took some figuring out...

decent

weird crux

a "boulders" problem. fun

constricted but kinda fun

Terrifying and awesome

Better start than the original, but a bit less obvious

sharp but worth doing

Awesome! So cool. Roof with amazing features

Awesome and a bit spicy at the top!

Sweet problem. I new-schooled my way through it with a toe hook and a big cross lunge

Don't know why this isn't the original line, it's much more obvious. Super technical and fun. A little sharp

Sweet, better than the original I think

On the bowling pin. Pretty cool

Holy crap this is a hard V5! Awesome line, a bit spooky at the top

Awesome jugs to a great arete

Very cool

Finding it is the cruz! Beautiful arete, awesome rock

great problem, though not as good as the original.

Pretty cool... topout a bit spicy.

HUGE! Fuckin amazing

Wasn't a huge fan

Crazy rock climb. Good but sandy at the top

why did i even log this?

Immaculate... one of my favorite in Joe's

not the best...

I absolutely love this boulder

awkward but aesthetic

hardest... problem... ever!

great boulder

Thuggy... my style. 4 hard moves to a drop off.

Low start. Really fun, awesome moves and cool holds up a unique prow. Was told the low start was a 9 but I don't think so.

One of the toughest and coolest 7's in Joe's. Very technical

Tough for a 7 I think, this one definitely took some work. Good line, worthy of glue I think

Very unique and fun.

Just the mantle. Really cool, wish I could do that low move!

Insanely cool beta on this short li'l guy

Fun roof, wish it were longer

Cold... hurt my knee at the top

Surprisingly made pretty quick work of it. My style I guess. So psyched my first v10 is a line as beautiful as this!

Really cool features. Hard not to dab at the top!

Awesome! One of the funnest for the grade I've ever done. Cool holds and cool movement

Desperate. Everybody told me it was V8 and then I saw 5 in the book. I still think it's V8.

Amazing movement. I really liked the slab too.

Aesthetic but not very fun.

Cool but not as good as Gurkha

Fun mantle

Sit start way right of Big Boy and traverse the lip into the topout of BB. It's pretty fun

Easier with toe hooks. Pretty cool.

Beautiful black rock and cool movement.

Beautiful riverside arete. Loved it.

Not very aesthetic but cool holds and it's fun too

First problem of a two month trip. Psyche is high

Rad juggy steep short little thing

Good party boulder.

Very fun moderate

Best of the grade I've ever done?

Started right hand on the sidepull and left very low around the corner on a crimp, with a left heelhook. The heel hook helped a lot and it felt like easy v9 or v8. Really cool problem

There are no words...

Soooo good. Feels impossible in humid weather

Awesome movement with an easy but terrifying ending. Big oyster is next!

Amazing rock

The hardest thing I've ever climbed with no pants on.

Cool powerful moves on slopers up a blunt arete. Short but awesome.

One move wonder: short dyno off an awesome left hand slimper/mono stack to a flat rail, helicopter swing, match, then it's basically over.

Way out in the woods. Long as hell and really cool, with an exciting lunge for the lip over a bad landing.

A new favorite

A fine problem

3.6 miles up the crown point road, on the right, very close to the road. awesome problem, tall and climbs very well. A bit dirty though.

Amazing, adds some really cool moves. Gotta do Right now!

Nice crimp line in the woods.

I like it!

Really fun, great rock. Nice addition to the poudre

FA: Been trying this for two years and finally figured out some new beta that made it way easier. Two moves- Hard slap to the lip, then an awesome mantle with absolutely no holds.

Worth doing

Much better than I thought it would be. Probably a little easier than Right

FA, Pingree Park. It doesn't suck

long standing project, somehow went very easily today

A very beautiful line

So sharp! Great movement though

Fantastic slab

Awesome but sharp. In my opinion, harder than HPD

Sorta contrived, but a great and obvious line

Awesome! Threw the fuck down on that last move!

Easily one of the best lines I've ever done.

Hardest v1 in the world!

v7. Cool pocket line

Amazing movement

Almost destroyed my finger. Happy to get this thing over with.

Terrifying. Obviously, a beautiful line, one of the best

Great slab. Really enjoyed this one

Great highball slab

Skipped half the holds. Crimpy!

So sharp! Great climbing though on an interesting boulder

Great unique holds. A better climb than King Tut

Great line

Insecure the whole way... maybe the longest I've ever spent climbing a v2!

So hard for me, very happy with the send

Great climbing but claustrophobic

v7- Amnesia flash from two years ago... beautiful problem

Stunning arete that turns into a straight up wrestling match at the top

Slippery and technical... beautiful rock

Great problem, kinda like two boulder problems in one.

Someday I'll do the full line...

Great highball with an awesome first move.

Awesome line. So much fun.

So weird and hard!

Really fun seam ending in an awesome jug. As good as v2 gets in my opinion

Awesome moves to a dirty and scary topout.

AMAZING! Kinda wet at the top, scary!

Cool pinch

The only dry boulder problem in Newlin Creek that day

awesome movement and holds

stand start to resident evil

i love toe hooks!

very cool beta

Much harder over the water than the ice

v7 I think. Fun roof that goes past horizontal

This thing has another name too but I forgot it. Unique sloper

Disliked roof, but liked the sloper part up top

Awesome awesome awesome!

v8. good.

Weird detached block. Cool moves

Awesome! I love aretes like this.

v7. crimps!

friction helps

real sticky that day

Awesome highball! Great movement and holds, very atypical for the area.

v7 awesome problem!

insane palming up into a roof and reaching back moves. very weird

stupid dyno but I had to do it

sick!

v7, amazing line I wish it were longer!

beautiful and scary line

so sick...

a little bit of everything

sharp but cool movement

I like it

sharp but awesome

Incredibly fun and aesthetic, one of the best here

wonderful slopers!

v7. one of the best i've done. got scared at the top!

Beautiful

Didn't find the magic kneebar

Scary top

Cool tricky roof to a heady topout, awesome boulder problem!

Almost flashed and won a bottle of bourbon! Bad foot beta though...

Kinda tweaky, I liked it though

In the dark, first climb at horse pens, awesome!

Climbed it with a bunch of beautiful women

Amazing crimps, nice change from the rest of the area

Awesome jump move!

Beautiful rock

Butchered the topout

v7. awesome but sharp

just in time before i tore my left index finger open

really gymnastic and fun

Amazing, could do it over and over again

happy to have some huge pads beneath me! This one is big!

Really fun and interesting movement on great rock. some frickin sharp holds though

fun crimpin on cool black rock. low start is really awkward

four stars!

I liked it

cool undercling

had to use the terrible crimp and a weird toehook. sucks being short!

awesome, wish i'd known about it sooner

took me way to long to do this

great movement and rock, not so great position

Sit start on some cool crimps and then go over a weird roof.

Stumbled upon this and did it before I knew the name or grade, now that the guidebook's out I know it's called the Fin. Very good

Sweet problem with lots of variety.  Steep start, crazy mantel, and easy slab finish.  Tall!

Awesome boulder problem, easier than I thought it would be at first

Moe's kicks ass

Sweet

Sweet start hold, then a bit awkward

From the sit, very cool