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Ship's Prow Direct

V5, Boulder,  Avg: 1.7 from 10 votes
FA: an "Old Fart"
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Description

After getting warmed up on the "Standard" Ship's Prow (Ship's Prow Right by your description) and doing the Finger Ripper try this. Straight up between them, no holds on the other two allowed before the big horizontal ledge at mid-height. If you thought Finger Ripper was sharp, wait 'till you work the opening moves on this; a total tip shredder! A little reachy for me at 5'9" but a really nice hard route up this classic face.

Protection

A pad is nice for the last few hard moves before the horizontal break.

Comments [Hide ALL Comments]

Anonymous Coward
[Hide Comment] Ugh. Another eliminate. Next time you're up there, Mr. Fart, could you put little pieces of tape next to the legal holds? Thanks. Pads are for wussies, too. Jan 8, 2002
Old Fart aka Dave Bohn
  V6-7
[Hide Comment] If you don't like eliminates Mr. Coward what are you doing climbing at Rotary at all? Except for the Left Eliminator and a couple of problems on the Mental Block every problem at Rotary, (and Flagstaff,Morrison,etc.) is an eliminate. Lets see, crack is out on Finger Ripper, arete's out on the "Standard and while your at it could somebody please paint a line on Punk so I will know high high I can use my hands without actually being on top? Sorry, but thats what bouldering is about, the sequence IS the "route" and in 99.99% of the time you will have to make the personal choice to grab the "wussies" holds. If you can find a usable hold in the 5' of perfect rock between the Standard and Finger Ripper let me know, I don't need glasses yet so I could point them out from the ground to you. But I agree about the pad thing, I've never used one, but I learned how to fall 30 years ago on the Mental Block before a bunch of lowlifes turned the old landing into the "wussie" landing that's there now. Jan 9, 2002
Scott Robertson
Portland, OR
[Hide Comment] Old fart sounds cool. Apr 16, 2004
Sean Patrick
Minneapolis, MN
[Hide Comment] Awesomely terrible.

If anyone who knows this boulder wishes for others to climb it, we are going to need a topo. Take a photo of the boulder, and circle holds that are on, and which are off. The wall undercuts, and if you don't use feet from the other two lines, you are doing pull ups on crimps up a low angle ramp with no feet - which was awesomely terrible. Oct 29, 2020