The Blasted Rock Slab is a fun change of pace.  There is a small diagonal hold at the right-hand side of the Blasted Rock.  Start with both hands here and climb the slab to the top out.

Blasted Rock Slab (AKA Boxcar Downclimb)

Unnamed BP  6

Blasted Rock Crack

Drifter's Escape

Unnamed BP  4

Unnamed BP  2

Baby Problem

Unnamed BP  5

Blasted Rock

Little Death

The Boxcar Boulder Problem (aka Boxcar Traverse)

Bizmark

Unnamed BP  7

Box Car Arete

Unnamed BP  3

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The Conductor

Start on the left side of the boxcar boulder on a decent pinch and a ledge. Traverse right. Although after speaking to many climbers on Carriage Road, I have been told that the original traverse went right to left, dealing with the crux first and finishing through an easy traverse. The grade stays the same either way.

 There is an extension of the traverse called "Easy Street", V9/10, which traverses right to left straight into Boxcar Arete.

The easiest of the three dyno problems from the smile, this is still no gimme.  Start with your hands on the right side of the smilelike feature on the right side of the Boxcar boulder.  Find what minuscule feet you can, and power up to the top.

Climb the Blasted Rock along the big vertical crack that runs through it.  Use the face and corner as necessary to top out.

Start with your hands underclinging the sharp arete that rises up and right.  Use any thing that you can get your hands, feet, knees or hips on to ascend up to and over the nose.  You're not free yet.  Hump your way over the nose to the top out to complete your escape.

Start with your hands on the left side of the smile like feature, pop for the lip and top out.  Despite its sloping appearance, there's a good lip to wrap your fingers around up top.  I actually found this to be easier than the Unnamed BP #5 just to the right.

The book gives this problem a grade of V1, but it's at least V2 if not harder.  Start sitting with your hand on the rail that slopes upward and right from the left side of the Boxcar boulder.  Do not continue up the rail.  Shoot up and right to a sloping hold.  Top out at the large rectangular block.

Start sitting down on a good edge. Make one move to the lip. The topout on the slopey lip is the crux. Using the left arete would bring the grade down to V0-.

Start with your hands in the middle of the smile like feature, pop for the V-shaped feature directly above and top out. Despite the grade in the book I found this to be substantially harder than Unnamed BP #4 just to the left.

Start on the well chalked hold in the center of the black face of the Blasted Rock.  Work up the thin holds to top out without using either arete.  Even if you usually cruise V1, this problem is well worth a go. 

  By using the aretes, the difficulty drops to V0, but it's worth scaling the problem using the right arete and the left arete separately.

Start on good holds on the left side of the boulder, traverse the lip using horrible crimps and tricky heel-hooks. Top out on the right side of the boulder.

Start sitting down hugging the two low holds. Use dropknees, slaps, heelhooks and more heelhooks to get to the good hold about 6 feet high. From there, climb a seam to the top. 

Start with your hands on the great right facing holds on the far right-hand side of the Boxcar boulder.  Work up and right to top out.

Climb the left arete of the Boxcar boulder. Crux is the topout.

This route may not have a real name, but it's a lot more fun than many that do.  Start sitting on the left side of a rock buried in the ground at the base of the Boxcar boulder with your hands on the upward and right sloping rail.  Work your way up the holds to top out above and right.

Climb down into the depression on the right-hand side of the baby boulder.  Start with your hands on the two chalky holds in the horizontal and climb up the vertical crack and face to the top out.  This is a lot of fun, but probably a little easier than the V3 grade that it garners in the guide.

Start with your hands on the two chalky left facing holds a few feet to the right of the Boxcar boulder arete.  Climb up through the triangular flake to the top of the boulder.  In my opinion, adding the top out pushes the grade above V0.

With more than 30 problems, there is a whole day's worth of bouldering in the Boxcar area.  No matter what your level there is a great climb or two to test your ability: Blasted Rock (V1), Drifter's Escape (V2), Baby Hole (V3), The Boxcar Boulder Problem (V4), Boxcar Arete (V8), Fly Like an Ego (V9), Little Death (V10).

Blasted Rock Slab (AKA Boxcar Downclimb)

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Routes in Boxcar Area