Begin with your right hand on the arete and your left hand on a sloped edge. Work your way up to the lip, and then traverse up and to the right to top out at the apex of the boulder.Beta Video: instagram.com/p/CHWesOxjHSN…;

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Hand of Faith

Pyrite

Golden Hour

Possibly the best problem of the area. Hand of Faith begins as a sit start on an incut crimp, and ascends the vertical face with a long crux move towards the top.Beta video: instagram.com/p/CHWesOxjHSN…

Lowball. Start with your right hand on a tricky pinch around the right side of the arete, and your left hand very low on a sloper/undercling. Move up the arete and turn the lip. Either jump down from here, or continue up the slab to the apex of the boulder full the full adventure. Beta video: instagram.com/p/CHWesOxjHSN…;

Begin in a sit start with opposing crimp sidepulls. Slap up the arete using slopers to a juggy topout. 

Dozens of large boulders litter the hillsides outside of the Nelson ghost town. While the rock quality is hit and miss, the good rock is definitely worth the trip. The rock type is volcanic rhyolite, so it is a good option if red rock is wet from rain. Most of the problems currently fall in the moderate range (V0 - V4) but there is opportunity for harder climbs to be developed in the future.

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Routes in Nelson Boulders