The best problem on the boulder and one of the best in the woods. Start matched on a good sharp jug above head height. Get a super high right foot and bump up on crimps to get a good crescent crimp sidepull with your left. Next figure out the tricky crux sequence which involves getting a high foot on the starting hold or going to a sidepull below the lip. Very classic.  

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The Buttermilker

Blacksmith.....AKA Seam Direct

Invasion of the Pad People

Luck of the Irish

Three Little Birds

Stone Warrior

Green Screen

The Bump

Phat Lip

Easy Skanking

Locksmith...AKA Seam Right

Pete's Problem

Hairballs

Silver Dollar

AM/FM

Subway

Fancy Clown

As Seen on TV

Green Haze

Stone Tower Arete

Dean's Problem

Buttermilker Low

Sit start the long, right-leaning arête formerly known as the Stone Tower Project. The stand start at the mid-way point has been sent at around V9-10.

Start in the right-slanting seam from a full sit. Climb the seam rightwards and then break straight up the face using small holds when the seam peters out. Balancy and very technical. 

Pads need to be stacked to reach the starting holds of this one move wonder... unless you are really tall. Grab two sharp sidepulls with very marginal feet. Lockoff and crank to the lip. First Ascent was flashed; August 2010.

Sit start under the small bulge with a good left hand side pull and a large sloper in your right. It shares a common start with Pop just with a lower starting hold. Make a big and blind move left to a positive seam about 4 feet off the ground.  Traverse the seam left and top out when the seam runs out.

A one move wonder. Sit start with  left on the Silver Dollar crimp and a good big right hand sidepull. Get your feet on and make a big move to the jug directly above and top out.

Stand start as for As Seen on TV and climb strait up to a high topout. Fun.

Squat starts under the small roof with left hand in a large cave-like hold and right on a slopey crimp next to it. Make a big move out of the small roof and continue on by traversing the left-leaning arete, and top out around the corner. An easier variation, about V4, climbs directly out the roof and tops out straight up above.

Climb all of Green Haze, and make the final move out of the small overhang to the lip. When matched on the lip, start moving back down and left into Stone Warrior, climb through its crux, and finish for that problem topping out around the corner. This involves lots of traversing.

Sit start on the overhanging 45 degree arete about 5-6 feet right of the problem Hairballs with two crimpy dishes on the lip and a good right foot down low. Move right to the obvious sloper and match. Then crank up to the crack and finish as for Hairballs.

Sit start the same as Green Haze for full value (you can also sit start just below the sidepull jug on a triangular-shaped crimp on the lower lip). Make a couple moves along the lower lip to below the sidepull jug on the face (about halfway along the lower lip of Green Haze). Move up to the huge sidepull, pop to the upper lip to a hold that actually looks like a lip, and top out. The topout is harder and a bit more pleasurable than the top out to Green Haze.

Start as for As Seen on TV and get into the higher of the two diagonal seams on the slab. Finish where the higher seam ends.

Sit start in the right trending seam as for Dean's Problem and Seam Direct. Move up and right across the sheer face on tiny feet and marginal holds. Top out in front of the small tree.

Start sitting with hands in a seam above a small overhang. Move right into gastons in a seam, and use some funky footwork to rock over the lip.

Start with a good, juggy sidepull and pop into the seam to the right.  Traverse the seam rightwards until it is no more and climb the easy, slab face topping out as far right as possible a good ways of the ground. It tops out right above the huge arete project. 

  It climbs the lower of the two diagonal seams on the face.

Esssentially a link-up of two existing problems. Sit start as for Pete's Problem. Traverse right and low eventually getting the nice, right hand, orange sloper and making a crux move with the left hand to the silver dollar sized sidepull micro-crimp. Lock off, step up and make the dyno to the horn and top out as for the problem Pop .

Stand start between the problem ?? and Stone Warrior

  with a high, right, slopey shelf and a high, left, sidepull crimp and your left foot on a good edge. Climb up.

This has to have been done before, but I don't see it on MP. Any of the regulars know what it is called?

 There is a long low boulder leaning against the Stone Tower Boulder, which forms a low tunnel with a sort of roof crack at the top. Hand traverse the crack while heel hooking and foot jamming the roof. Reach for crimps when the crack runs out, and then work up to the jugs above.

 I don't really know how bouldering grades work. V2?

Another variation off of Pete's Problem and Pop. This problem is pretty much an easier version of Silver Dollar. Start as for Pete's Problem and once you get into the seam up and right, shoot with right hand all the way out to the jug out right (instead of dropping into the starting holds of Pop, which would constitute Silver Dollar). Top out the same as for those two problems. A somewhat contrived problem but a good option if you are looking to try something new on the boulder.

Stand start 2 feet left of the problem Hairballs with a good, high, left hand sidepull and a low, right horn. Pop up to the higher crack above Hairballs. Climbs the lower of the two diagonal seams on the face.. Climb up and finish as for Hairballs. Climbs the lower of the two diagonal seams on the face.

This problem is similar to Bodacious at Pawtuckaway, only it has more moves and more beta. Sit start as far right as possible in a small alcove and start moving left using slopers, a crimp, heelhooks, and tension. Finsh farther to the left making a move out a small overhang where the arete ends.

Sit start in two pods on the seam in the back of the boulder. Bump up to two higher pods and then make a hard long move left to a high sloper. Lock off, step up and snag a knob with your right hand. Then move left again to a good edge and top out.

Sit start to the classic The Buttermilker. Start down in the roof with the left hand in on the top of the broken crescent with a foot at the bottom of the crescent and your right hand on the slimper out right.

 Beta video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqrXpjhtBYg&feature=youtu.be.

This house-sized block is one of the hidden gems of the woods and it has boulder problems all around it. Most of the lines are also of high quality. A half or a full day could easily be spent here on the numerous problems it has to offer. Discovered by Bob Parrot and primarily developed by him and Pete Otis, this boulder deserves some attention. The Stone Tower Boulder rivals the Wetamoo Boulder for the highest number of quality lines on one single boulder in the park. It also hosts an incredible four star V11 on the huge right leaning arete to the left of the problem The Buttermilker.

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