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Son of Hands
V5,
Boulder, 10 ft (3 m),
Avg: 2.6 from 5
votes
FA: unknown
Colorado
> Grand Junction…
> Unaweep Canyon
> Nine Mile Hill
> Nine Mile Bould…
> Blue Moon Bould…
> Local Group Area
> Arcadia Block
Description
Son of Hands gollums out from a shallow cave and finishes via perfect edges on a clean slab face.
Sit start with hands matched on an obvious jug in the cave. From there, move right to an incut edge with both hands, walk the feet over and make a big move to a perfect crimp on the face, set the feet and make another big, static move to a three-finger crimp (crux?), then paste a foot on the face, make a stab for the lip or cross over with the right, and top it out.
Location
It ascends the east face of Arcadia. It shares the same start with
Paleocontact.
Protection
A pair of pads will do, the landing is good, but there are a few rocks below the problem.
![Working the incut match on Son of Hands.<br>
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Photo from J. LaVacque.]()
[Hide Photo] Working the incut match on Son of Hands. Photo from J. LaVacque.
![Son of Hands problem beta.<br>
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Photo by J. LaVacque.]()
[Hide Photo] Son of Hands problem beta. Photo by J. LaVacque.
![Sticking the perfect right hand crimp on Son of Hands.<br>
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Photo courtesy of J. LaVacque.]()
[Hide Photo] Sticking the perfect right hand crimp on Son of Hands. Photo courtesy of J. LaVacque.
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Durango, CO
You have to make a conscience effort to not reach out and grab the jug on Paleocontact if you are tall. Feels a lil' contrived. Nov 20, 2022