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Alberta Yamnuska Big Choss Soup Bowl | |||||
V7 | Shwe-Tama | ||||
V6 | Misty Steamer
One of the best at Big Choss! Sit-start on the obvious jug-ledge in the pit to the right of the base of the arete. Make a couple of moves straight up on jugs, then head left and get your pinches, heels, and compression working. Cruxy topout. This problem lends itself well to a progression of alternate starts and eliminates up to around V8. | ||||
V5 | ★★ Low Traverse | ||||
V3 | Fur Pie
Start as per Misty Steamer and move straight up through jugs, a small edge, a gaston and a somewhat tricky top-out. V3++ | ||||
V4 | Horny for Plenty | ||||
V5 | ★ Soup bowl
Broken left side pull? Hard to tell might go way harder then v5 now | ||||
V1 | ★ She can do it | ||||
V4 | The Jerk | ||||
Alberta Yamnuska Big Choss Sector Six | |||||
V1 | ★ Sailing slab right
Start as per "Walk the Plank". Climb straight up the groove. There is an easy, but committing, high-step at the top. | ||||
{FB} V9 | ★★★ Hey Sailor
Sit start left hand undercling and right hand crimp under the roof. Make your way up through a series of tensiony powerful moves to the good holds which is the start of the stand start (V4). Stellar line! Kudus to Alberta Bouldering. | ||||
V4 | ★ Smooth sailing
Sit-start underneath a kind of hole feature (right hand is on a low sidepull edge under the overhang, left hand is on a low sidepull jug just outside the overhang). Slap a crux first move to sharp jug on the lip of the overhang, then use jugs and good flakes to rock over the lip and follow the crack up the slab to the top of the boulder. Really good movement with a nice high-step to finish off the tall slab. You could reach up to the sharp, left-hand jug from the sit-start, skipping the first move and the problem would check-in at about V1, or you could force an awkward match at v5 on the start hold. | ||||
V2 | Speak easy
Sit-start using blocky holds at base of dihedral. Climb up the right side of the dihedral. Beware awkward fall | ||||
V2 | ★ Hen night
Sit-start at extreme right end of a juggy shelf/rail below lip of boulder. Follow this rail left into a dihedral. Top out at the dihedral, or continue left along the lip of boulder to top out as per "Speak Easy" (more pump, same grade) | ||||
V4 | ★★ Mittens Mclean
Sit-start, low in crack. Climb straight up the short crack. | ||||
Alberta Yamnuska Big Choss Culo | |||||
V0 | Introductory Culo | ||||
V2 | Me and My Culo | ||||
V2 | ★★ Central Culo
Add a grade for sit start better flow to. Watch out top is extremely sharp | ||||
V4 | Culo Traverse | ||||
V2 | Culo Arête | ||||
V0 | Love me love my culo | ||||
Alberta Yamnuska Big Choss Lower Westside | |||||
V0 | Crack of Don | ||||
V0 | Don's Corner | ||||
V4 | Gang War | ||||
V2 | Bang Bang | ||||
V0 | Baggy Jeans | ||||
V5 | Slim Shady | ||||
V2 | ★★★ Fat Shady
Sit start to the left of 'Slim Shady' on two opposing side pulls. The line allows you to avoid the crimps of 'Slim Shady'. A nice warmup. FA: Petah Low, 9 Oct 2023 | ||||
V1 | Scree Surf | ||||
V0 | The Flexi Flake | ||||
V10 | Carny Riding Shotgun | ||||
V3 | Hole Up | ||||
V3 | Hole Right | ||||
V2 | Banger | ||||
V3 | Twin Guns | ||||
Alberta Yamnuska Big Choss Hidey-Ho | |||||
V0 | Diamond Head | ||||
V4 | Death Ripples | ||||
V0 | Aretee | ||||
V3 | You're a Harry, Lizard | ||||
V3 | Larry the Cat | ||||
V3 | You're a Lizard, Harry | ||||
V1 | Over Shruberry | ||||
V5 | Hot Baby Burrito | ||||
Alberta Canmore Bonsai Boulders The Cottage | |||||
V3 | ★★ The Hearth
Follow the prow using the crack and arete to the left. Sit start with a match on the undercling. | ||||
V2 | Goldilocks Arete
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V1 | ★ Shared Spaces
Crouch start. Climbs the layback feature just to the right of the large tree. Shares the same finish as the CMC traverse. | ||||
V6 | Goldilocks Low
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V0 | ★ CMC Traverse
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V3 | ★★★ Prow'd
This climb tackles the obvious arete with the loose starting block. Sit start with two hands on the under cling block feature. work up the block feature on the arete until you can lunge up to good sloper. Most people duck out left to top out but it can be finished with a hard mantle following a direct line up the arete. The direct finish is a slightly harder grade | ||||
V3 | ★★ Papa Bear
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V4 | ★ Heathstone
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V5 | Hearthstoned
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V0 | The apple
Visible slab that can been seen if you are approaching the cottage boulder from "The Garden" (Main) area. Needs some more cleaning. | ||||
V6 | Goldilocks Traverse
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V2 | Rooftop Traverse
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V0 | The worm
Crack feature found to the left of the slab | ||||
V2 | The Gardener
Slightly to the right of the Prow'd arete. Jump to the lip and mantle to the top. | ||||
V1 | Neighbours
Climbs the blunt arete on the other side of the passage between the boulders. | ||||
V4 | CMC Extendo Traverse
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V1 | In for a Penny, in for a Pound
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V1 | More Than I Bargained For
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V0 | The Core
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Alberta Canmore Bonsai Boulders Lil’Un | |||||
V2 | ★★ Thrutch
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V0 | ★★ Moss Traverse
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V1 | ★ Up and Over
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V1 | ★★★ The Mantle
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Alberta Canmore Bonsai Boulders Forget me Knot | |||||
V0 | Forgotten
Stand start. Begins on the right side of west face of boulder and climbs up trending leftwards. | ||||
V0 | Oubliette
Stand Start on the same face as forgotten. Begin on the left side of face and climb the crack/dish trending right. | ||||
Alberta Canmore Bonsai Boulders The Garden | |||||
V4 | ★★ Boat People
Just left of the arete, it starts on a left hand crimp rail moving to a left hand undercling. The climb then goes up the face using a left hand crimp and terrible side pulls. | ||||
V4 | ★★ Snow White
Originally graded as a V2, this one starts under the overhanging corner at basically a lay down start. Both hands start on the undercling. | ||||
V4 | Dopey
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V0 | ★ Dreaming of Font
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V6 | The Money Problem
Sit start with left hand on undercling and right hand on a crimp. | ||||
V2 | Bashful
Climbs the small crack feature on the east face of the main blocks up to the big jug horn. | ||||
V1 | Happy
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V5 | The Seven Dwarves
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V0 | North West Arete
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V0 | ★ Soth West Arete
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V4 | The Money Mantle
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V3 | Sleepy
Sit start left of bashful on the blunt edge of the rock. The climb traverse right past an obvious horn which is part of bashful, remain low until the end of the lower rail, then make some powerful moves to the lip. | ||||
V2 | Cornered
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V1 | Sneezy
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V3 | Doc
Sit start on the jugs and pull up to the slab for a challenging finish. | ||||
V3 | Dopey Traverse
Start as per dopey and traverses into Sleepy. Finish the climb on Sleepy for the top out. | ||||
VB | Shark attack
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V2 | ★ Infidelity
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V0 | ★ SouthWest Arête
VB if you trend right | ||||
Alberta Canmore Jura Creek Sugar Cube Area | |||||
V3 | Sugar Cube Corner | ||||
V3 | Corner to Corner | ||||
V3 | The Cube | ||||
V2 | Upper Cube-age | ||||
Alberta Banff Tunnel Mountain Hoodoo trail Boulder | |||||
V2 | ★ Boiled eggs
On the back side of the Boulder is one problem so far. Start on the far left in front of the other small "back breaker" Boulder. Sit start on the right trending rail- matched. Pull hard with good feet. Worth having two spotters on the Boulder behind. FA: nico watson, Jimmy Blackhall & Ignacio Alveal, Mar 2016 | 3m | |||
V5 | ★★★ Hard Boiled
Sit start on the vertical sidepull, move up and slightly right on crimps, finish straight up. FA: Evan Waugh, 23 Jun 2020 | ||||
V4 | ★★ Soft Boiled
Start as for Hard Boiled (sit start on vertical edge right of Boiled Eggs), move right through crimps and continue right through edges to top out right. May be hard for grade for those with shorter wingspan. FA: Evan Waugh, 23 Jun 2020 | ||||
V5 | ★★ Yellowstreak
The Direct line up the Yellow and white streak. Stand-Starts with the two side pulls straight up to either the small right crimp or the broken textured sloppers. Look for the 2 or 3 finger crimp (crux). Big moves and a technical high finish. FA: Takeshi Abe, Jimmy Blackhall & Stephen Andrew, Jun 2016 | 4m | |||
V5 | ★★ Hoodoo
Start next to Whitestreak, climb directly up the dark streak. Big moves to edges. FA: Evan Waugh Set: Nico Watson & Jimmy Blackhall | 5m | |||
V2 | V2
The problem to the left of the front. Has the other broken boulders as a base. Not really a recommended route but who's to say what some enjoy. Has a fun move from the V shaped slopery pinch up to the slopery/crimp U shaped. | 4m | |||
V2 | ★ The arete
Climb the far right arete, sit start facing behind the boulder. Not recommended with a back breaking fall. V1 if you stand start on the jug | 5m | |||
V4 | ★ Daddy long legs
Sit start matched on the crimp. Big move to gaston/sidepull and now start slapping and Heel hooking up the left side of the arete (far right line on main wall). Big move to an edge, big slap out right to sloper/sidepull on arete.. The top out is desperate as it definitely feels like a high ball- make sure your spotter Is aware. A technical, sequential problem for sure. A stand start goes at the same grade. FA: Jimmy Blackhall, 2016 | 4m | |||
V6 | ★★ Hoodoo Traverse
Start on the Big Side pull pinch far right with one foot around the right of the arete and one on the front face. A technical powerful problem utilizing the V-shaped hold as the crux and a big move up the v2. Finishes up the v2. FA: Takeshi Abe, Jun 2016 | 4m | |||
Alberta Banff Mt Rundle Rundle Rock Sugarloaf | |||||
V0 | V0
Start on edge and sidepull, leading up to big holds |