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Child Prodigy
V6+,
Boulder,
Avg: 3.2 from 60
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FA: unknown
New Hampshire
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Description
Both Firestarter and Child Prodigy can be found on the road-facing side of the Moat Boulder. Firestarter climbs the right side of the face on big holds and Child Prodigy starts as per Firestarter and breaks left.
Start on big holds that mark the start of Firestarter. Rather than going to a flake with your left hand, grab the crimp right below it and head left into an ill-defined inside corner. The crimps continue, some facing the wrong direction, until the lip where a hero-jug awaits. Topout up and right.
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[Hide Photo] John Meager sending child prodigy in perfect light. Photo: Suzannah Buzzell
[Hide Photo] Following crimps up Child Prodigy.
[Hide Photo] Tim on the very extended part of the route. Tim is 6 foot 1.
[Hide Photo] Tim on the terrible right hand side-pull/crimp/small pinch. (we can decide what it is best described as haha)
Tired
Also, it looks like there's a more intuitive start using low sidepul in the inside corner. Would make more sense than starting to the right. Oct 16, 2008
Manchester, NH
Tired
Overall great problem with hard finish! Apr 8, 2012
Providence, RI
Telluride, CO
The top out is fairly strange as well, as it's not entirely clear what is 'acceptable' and what's not. Too bad because it does climb quite well with great long-ish moves on cool holds. Jun 20, 2012
Center Harbor, NH
Casper, WY
went left into undercling, tricky foot swap to gain far left foot on good edge, and I was able to bring my foot high into a scoop feature(almost drop knee) to make the last move an easy, but precise, deadpoint. Oct 18, 2015
Hooksett, NH
I completely agree with you, always thought this felt super hard and never knew what to do to make it feel reasonable. It does go, and has good movement. Mar 2, 2018
Center Harbor, NH
Windham, ME
Video of this starts at 0:00
youtube.com/watch?v=2PB_0LK… Oct 16, 2020
Sandwich, NH
Norwich, VT
Also, there seems to be at least 15 equally hard ways to do this.
Fun problem, though! Aug 26, 2021