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<header name="Sandfly" id="1" walk="10 mins" rock="Dolerite" acknowledgement="By Steve Thomas" access="Park at Sandfly cricket ground and follow the pleasant marked trail through the bush for approx 10 mins, until the river valley can be seen. Follow the trail as it continues alongside the creek. The path approaches and enters the trees until a trail branches left down to the water. From here you should be able to see Christmas Boulder directly across the water. Cross the river using stepping-stones or if the water level is high then wade through the shallows, very refreshing for tired feet, particularly, after a hard days bouldering!" intro="Located at Sandfly, found by Steve Thomas and developed from Christmas 2010 onward by Steve Thomas, Chris Welsh and Blake Laurent."/>
<text class="heading3" id="2">Christmas Boulder</text><image id="23" src="boulder-guide-001.jpg"/><problem id="3" number="1." grade="V?" extra="(Highball, Stand)">Project. Make a hard mantle onto small ledge at chest height, up to sloping crimp and top out.</problem><problem id="4" number="2." grade="V3" name="Exit Left" extra="(Highball, SDS)">Up the centre of wall on small edges exiting left.</problem><problem id="5" stars="*" number="3." name="Theft" grade="V2" extra="(Highball, Stand)">Pull on to wall using small rail and straight up on edges to good hold at top.</problem><problem id="6" number="4." name="Tempted" grade="V2" extra="(Highball, Stand)">The next arête. Resist the temptation to use the jug on Deception!
4a Tempted - SDS V3</problem><problem id="7" number="5." name="Deception" grade="V1" extra="(Highball, Stand)">Up on small edges until the cunningly concealed jug at two thirds height can be reached, from here carefully top out onto the ledge above.</problem><text id="8">To escape from the previous problems follow the curving crack with chock stones (VE) to the top, then carefully descend above Christmas Pud until big ledge is reached. Finally descend via Treacherous Gully (VE) to the right. </text><image id="24" src="boulder-guide-004.jpg"/><problem id="9" number="6." name="Smeagol" grade="V3" extra="(Stand)">Up middle of face to long reach for top and grovelling mantle to finish.</problem><problem id="10" number="7." name="Ugly Duckling " grade="V0" extra="(Stand)">Thrutch up the corner crack or bridge the corner gracefully… Exit to right. Watch out for loose blocks.</problem><problem id="11" number="8." grade="V?">Project face through overhang without using arête.</problem><problem id="12" stars="*" number="9." name="Christmas Pud" grade="V1/2" extra="(SDS)">Start with both hands on the rail left of the arête, up to good hold on arête, and up again to shallow shelf, delicately move right onto face and surprising, awkward top out.</problem><problem id="13" stars="***" number="10." name="Pud Direct" grade="V4" extra="(SDS)">Start underneath the overhang on good holds, up via a block on the right and the nose on the left until two slopes can be reached, hold the slopes, set feet and make insecure move left to good hold on arête, pull onto face and exit delicately as for Christmas pud.</problem><problem id="14" stars="*" number="11." name="Dragonfly" grade="V2/3" extra="(SDS)">Start under overhang on good holds and move up until small edge can be reached, pop up again for bigger edge and potentially strenuous pull onto face, have a rest and summon courage to step up on slopes or good small edge and mantle to finish.</problem><image id="25" src="boulder-guide-003.jpg"/><problem id="15" number="12." grade="V5" name="My Left Foot" extra="(SDS)">The arête. Start at big hold, using this ascend arête to gain a small crimp on the right and using this (strenuous) ascend until a long bold move gains the top, followed as usual, by a mantle to finish.</problem><problem id="16" number="13." name="Simplicity" grade="V0" extra="(Stand)">The right hand side of the face around from My Left Foot.</problem><problem id="17" number="14." name="High Hand Traverse" extra="(Stand)" grade="V1">Climb up Simplicity or Treacherous Gully until the top of the boulder can be reached, traverse left around the first arête and excitingly around the second arête then exit as for Ugly Duckling.</problem><problem id="18" number="15." name="Treacherous Gully" grade="VE">The ascent/descent corner right of Simplicity. Watch out for loose rocks.</problem><text id="19" class="heading3">Second Tier</text><text id="20">If you‘ve flashed all the problems on Christmas Boulder or you are bored or have limitless time and energy, you might want to try the problems on the second tier. To reach them follow the Treacherous way. This entails climbing Treacherous gully and the block above Dragonfly and then scramble up until you reach flattish ground below the boulders. There is, perhaps surprisingly, plenty of flat ground here for pads and spotters and from here you can move left or right to access the problems, bearing in mind, for your own safety and that of others below, the perils of loose scree underfoot and of the big drop that awaits the careless. On a more positive note the view from up here is excellent.</text><problem id="21" number="1." name="BeeFly" grade="V0" extra="(Stand)">In the centre of the boulder just to the right of the tree. Up on positive holds to positive top out.</problem><problem id="22" number="2." grade="V2/3" extra="(Highball, Stand)">Project. Thin edges to high top out.</problem>
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