Carol working the tight hands / off fingers topout...
Description
Behind Cyclops rock is this awesome boulder problem. A sit start in a cave starts you out 10' of finger crack through the roof in the cave, to a tight-hands swing around the lip and then fingers, off fingers and tight hands lead to a funky top out that is for many the crux.
Protection
Mostly low to the ground but the topout is about 12' and a pad is probably desirable.
Fantastic problem and somewhat tricky at the beginning. Many people call the ending vertical section/exit the crux, but I would disagree. Gaining the large flake at the pod about halfway out the roof seemed to be the crux to me with powerful pulls with bad feet. The crux can be dispatched with hard cranking, or sneaky toe hooking in the pod by swinging the feet ahead of you and then spinning the body and working the secondary crack to get your head back in front of your feet. This thing is pretty harsh on your second knuckles, Werlin is right on about taping if working it...and I almost never tape. Get it sussed, then get rid of the aid (tape) and send it. Definitely one of the best problems at Josh.
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