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Beer Barrel Boulder
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Bear Barrel Traverse 
Beer Belly aka Beached Whale? 
Double Clutch 
No name 
NW Corner 
Poling Pebble 
South Face 
Southwest prow 
West Face Traverse 

Bear Barrel Traverse 

V9

   

FA: ?
Type: Boulder
Consensus: V9 [details]
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Submitted By: Ted Lanzano on Sep 14, 2004


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Description 

If you are looking for a new project at Flag, this might be your ticket.This rarely repeated problem involves climbing a complete loop around the Beer Barrel boulder. Start on the underclings on the south east side and traverse clockwise, finishing on a hard crux on the north east side. It's helpful to have someone block for you as you pass the crowds on the other problems.

P.S. If anyone knows the official name, first ascentionist or has any other background information on this problem, please share with the rest of us.


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A pad or two is fine.



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By Jonathan Siegrist
Oct 27, 2005

I can make out the entire traverse except for the ending, do you end by doing the v6 'North West Corner' problem or do you stay lower, or do you top out after finishing the West Face Traverse?

By Ted Lanzano
Oct 29, 2005

After the west-side traverse, continue around the corner (tricky) and top out on the north-east side (listed as the NW corner on this site) of the boulder with several tenuous slopes and a heal. The loop is more like V8 or V9.