"Thews:

Muscles and tendons perceived as generating such strength."

 A personal favorite: "Thews" stand-starts on the lowest section of a geometric arete bulge, with feet on a bad bottom rail. left hand on the "jigsaw piece" flake, right hand pinch crimping on the geometric arete. go up through big moves to crimps/pinches to gain the slopey and exposed top out. top out is above the start and is challenging.

Thews

Alive Arête

High Jump

Breaking Point

Roy G Biv

Basic Color

Last Action Hero

Eaten Alive

Tang

Savage Cabbage

Bear Claw

Sweet Cherry

Spice Weasel

Rally Car

Chromatic

Thews (Low)

Sweet'N Low Traverse

One hold lower, this is a harder crimp start into "Thews" proper:

 Start with the left hand on the crimp that is the standard start to "thews proper" but with your right hand starting on the lower crimp undercling rail.

 Paste a foot underneath and pull on. Reach up and gain the pinch to begin and finish standard "Thews".

When looking at the main, long, blank face, this is the arete corner on the left side that works up slopey ledges. 

  Sit start matched on an overhead ledge. heel hook and slap your way past slopey ledges to the right and across the corner of the boulder. once you are at the top of the boulder, roll over for the top out (continuing all the way to the notch where "Eaten Alive" ends is unnecessary).

Listed as the "Nab Project" on (pg. 42) of the Grayson Highlands Bouldering Guidebook. 

  This fun and long standing Thews Boulder project was finally done on June 21st 2014. Located in the middle of the long blank face to the left of "Thews" (V6). 

  As the sound of the name suggests, High Jump consists of smearing a foot on any ripple you can find and launching up to a thin crimp/pinch combo at about 8-9ft off the ground. Stacking pads up to where you no longer have to jump is not the problem. no cheating! 

   The thin, flat, single-pad right hand crimp is along a slanted rail. Next to it (left hand hold) is a diagonal crimp/pinch with a thumb-catch at the bottom. Time your jump to hit both simultaneously. 

  Latch the first holds and dyno/campus out from under the short roof to the pinches at the lip. Trend slightly left, matching along the left pinch feature to heel-hook over the lip, and gain the higher vertical, right facing crimp/gaston to aid in the mantle.  

  Top this out direct!

A fantastic jump problem: 

  Look for the skinny little tree that grows four feet back from the left side of the enthralling geometric arête feature that disrupts the shear face on the right end of the Thews Boulder. 

  Place your right hand on the "Jigsaw" hold (that also serves as a starting marker for "Thews"(v6)). 

  Place a smear left foot and blast off and up to the large right facing notch on the overhead roof lip. Stick this impressive looking move, and then engage the crux top out sequence that will keep your ego in check. Top out above the start hold crimp.

There are two smaller close trees to the right of "Thews" on the vertical face. Stand start low, 3ft to the left of the end of the main face of the boulder before it begins to curve around. 

  Use a sidepull or undercling edge very low with your right hand, and a shallow crimp to the left, midface (consider underclinging). move up to another crimp/crystal and either to more crimps, or just go big to hit the top (bomber).

Super easy and fun: 

  This is just to the left of "Roy G Biv" and "Chromatic". 

  There are two smaller close trees to the right of "Thews" on the vertical face. Stand start close to the right of them on the face, about mid way up. Find the easy crimps and bump up to gain a left hand on a bomber massive block jug. skate up dicey feet and pop up to the top.

So So Good... 

  Go around to the back side of the boulder (opposite of the big blank face) and look for the big thin block leaning against the boulder. to the right of this about 8 feet will be this problem. look for the low starting crimps and the high flat sloper pinch. 

  Start down low (a sitstart with pads on the bank) on the upper and lower staggered crimps. toss to the slopey lip, and then pop up to the flat sloper feature that can be sort of pinched. mantle up and slab climb to the top. So Fun!!

On the arete to the left side of the blank, featureless face on Thews, you will find a slopey rail feature that trends up and right. This rail is midway up and fizzles out leading into distant crimps. Top out at a notch far to the right at the lip of the boulder. 

  Low start at the left end of the slopey rail. Work right across rail to set up for a long move to a distant crimp rail. At the rail, move into another crimp, and then blast to the high notch. Top out near the notch. 

  Two stars... Would be 3 stars, but the fact that you can -not- do the problem and blast to the top(?) keeps it at 2....

Gets only one star because it may be viewed as contrived, by boulder snobs and nay sayers since you top out through cool slopers instead of traversing to weak holds 5 feet to the left... just climb... 

  Stand start in front of the two side-by-side close trees on the back side of the uphill end nose of the boulder. Look for the slopers you can "hug" on that are in front of the trees on the bulgy arête-like blunt portion of the boulder. Hike high feet on the traversing low ledges. Move up and trend left through various slopers, and traverse feet left along ledges. 

  Once you find the left hand crimp, stop traversing (you should be able to lean into the slab at this point and not use hands...)and move straight up through slabby feet and slopers to gain a slim, fun top out. 

Sit start matched on the low rail in its middle under the water groove at the top. 

  mantle up with help from a heel hook and press out to reach crimps. crimp through to attain the water groove and top out...

Sit start on the left portion of the far rear (most uphill point) nose of the boulder, starting underneath the incline. make use of the sidepull jug to start and move up to the flat/slopish top. traverse to the left to use the better features for the mantle.

Walk around to the back of Thews Boulder (opposite side of the long blank face). On the downhill most portion of that side (when looking at the face it will be to your right), find the blocky, slightly slopey ledge lip that is very low to the ground. The ledge makes a loaf-blocklike feature that you will use on the start and heel hook on. 

  Harder than it looks! 

  Start with a right hand on the left end of the loaf and with a left hand on the lower lip to the left of the loaf/ledge. Heel hook and make a move up and left to a slopey spot with tiny pebbles. From here, move again to a higher feature with a great crimp. Top out... 

Sit start low on the far rear (uphill most end) side of the boulder, slightly to the left of a tree growing 5ft away from the boulder.   Begin the problem to the right side of the overhanging section, and sit starting low with a sidepull pinch/crimp combo.   Toe or heelhook high and pull over into a balancy move, reaching up to use slopers and a small crystal to bump higher into a crimp to lead to the top out.

Start to the left of two side by side trees near the face of the Thews Boulder that points toward the other two boulders... the problem stand starts low on the bottom of a diagonal seam crimp/crack, and an optional small crimp above for your left. move straight up, trending ever-so-slightly to the right through a beefy overhead pinch, a right sidepull, and a tall move to a flat top out.   all of this involves thin, micro feet. 

  top out directly behind the left of the two trees.

This is just to the left of "Roy G Biv"  

  There are two smaller close trees to the right of "Thews" on the vertical face. Stand start low on two very feint, slopey crimp ripples (the right hand you will have, is the left starting hand for "Roy G Biv").  

  Getting on the face is the crux. Use solid tension and balance to getting on the problem, and move delicately above the start to latch an upper solid crimp. continue to the bomber top out.

Sit Start low on the Back end (the uphill-most end of the boulder which will be the "back end" when approaching from hwy58) of the boulder. start matched on the right end juggy portion of the low, elongated, perfect rail system with a joined heel hook.   commence the long traverse with fun heel switches through crimp edges, matched pinches, tricky bump-through moves, and slopy lips.   traverse left from the start past the overhanging, low nose, around to the front face to the left, and top out the same as "Bear Claw" which is on good in-cut edge feature past the flat slopy section on the left face just past the "nose"...

A 12-13 foot high, slightly overhanging, mostly blank monster.  

  the blank and prominent left side main face of the boulder has a thin, slopey jutting rim to complicate top outs. the middle has the most prominent line on the boulder, made up of geometric pinches and crimps up a vague arete.  the back of the boulder also houses some exciting lines with slopey features.

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Routes in Thews Boulder