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Spittle Hill
Map 1 Wildside Boulders
Map 2 Evolution Gully
Map 3 Beautiful Edges
Map 4 The Gift and Duel
Map 5 Philtrum and Episto
Map 6 Fat of the Land
Map 7 Mecca and Flashpoint
Map 8 Opium and Ingenuity
Map 9 Badonkadonk
Map 10 Agony and Grotto
Map 11 Cyclops Boulder
Map 12 Heaven Boulders
Map 13 Left Pinnacle
Map 14 Right Pinnacle
Map 15 Eclipse and Kick start
Map 16 Fossil and Day Four
Map 17 Snatch & Vaseline
Map 18 Che Guevara
Map 19 Push the Bush
Map 20 Forgotten Boulders
Map 21 Dune & Bushido
Map 22 Rampage & Exile
Map 23 Scoop Doggy Dog
Map 24 Mantra and Flexion
Map 25 Thrust & Avenger
Map 26 Stone Wave
Map 27 Baba Tukay
Map 28 Tut & Superfly
Map 29 Mushroom Boulder
Map 30 Tricky and Dr. Jones
Map 31 Submarine Boulder
DSH03 Map 1: No Mans Land
DSH03 Map 4: Perfume Bottle Area
DSH03 Map 7: Alien Slab/Secret Garden
DSH03 Map 11: Nasal Slip Area
DSH03 Map 17: Central Field
DSH03 Map 18: Quantum View
DSH03 Map 22: The Tzar
DSH03 Map 26: Path-Side Boulders
DSH03 Map 28: Perplexity Area
DSH03 Map 30: King Tut
RDS1 Map 4
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