Good climbing on the uphill arete of The Cube boulder.  Look for the good holds as you stand higher and higher. The hands aren't mega, but the feet are so good that you end up being very secure for the duration of this climb.

It's cool, too, because it has a more open feel than the climbs to the left, The Segment and Tron.

Rubik's Arete

The Goods

Pentaphobia

The Octopus

Cube Traverse

Cleaver Crack

Crimp, Crimp, Slap, Throw

Shallow

Scram

Cube Crack

Thimbleberry

The Hobbit

Elfen Magic

The Segment

The Cube

Terminal Gravity

Greed

Tron

Gandalf

Playback

Fun hand crack problem for me the crux was getting down : ) tree can be helpful in the descent.

Start on edges on the right side of the boulder, then traverse left to top out as for Crimp Crimp Slap Throw on the left arete.

Stand start on the crimps you can reach, delicate and balancey climbing on more crimps from there to an easy mantle. Book says V5 but once you figure out the beta it feels a bit soft for the grade. That said, the sequence can be confusing at first.

As quoted from the guidebook "this dynamic problem climbs the right arete of the first boulder at clamshell. Pull on using a good pinch/crimp on the arete and a small lefthand sidepull on the face. Slap to the grainy sloper and finish up the corner. Stiff for the grade"

If you don't want to do the Cube Crack roof, and you do want to do a silly traverse and the 5.7 crack above, this is your line. Start right of the crack on good underclings, and go left until you hit the crack. Straight up from there. The rock is good, but this line feels forced, and doesn't match the quality of the others around.

Climb the hand crack I also used a pinch about halfway up.

Tricky stand start on small crimps at about chest height. Move up to better crimp, find a foot, then slap up on the slopey arête. Finish with a fun throw to the final jug and an easy mantel.

I thought this was the best of the three big lines on this boulder (The Cube, Cube Crack, and this). Start on big holds a few feet right of the crack, and weave your way through the line of least reistance to finish high and slightly right. Great movement and rock, and you get high enough to notice it on this line. Excellent.

Traverse the overhanging lip until it comes to a point.  The crux comes when you mantle on the left side of the point.

A hard first 6 feet lead to easier, but still technical vertical crack climbing above. Start with decent hands and one third of the way out of the cave, and make a couple of very crack technique intensive moves to get through the roof and over the lip. I suppose you could power it as well, since you are a boulderer, but don't expect it to feel v2 if you do.

Ascends the right side of the tall, flat face to the left of the trees. Start from a small triangular left-hand hold and a low, sloping right-hand side pull.

Climb the left corner of the Gandalf boulder from a sit start. Go up and left and good holds

Using good left foot step onto the slab after som strechy moves find the jugs that lead to an easy topout.  Kind of easy for V1 but has a committing move or two.

Big, committing, and there are actual moves at the 15 foot mark. Bring your big gestational organs.

Start sitting under the incredible overhanging prow feature with a good right hand edge/pinch and left hand crimper. Compress your way out the prow with wide heel hooks and difficult slaps to a crux move to the slightly better sloper on the right.

Climb straight up with nice edges to finish on the left of the arete.

A pleasant v0 just right of The Segment, on the small, uphill side of the boulder. I thought this climbed better, and had cleaner fall potential than The Segment. Probably the better beginner problem of the two, althought both would be quite nice for someone without much experience.

Climb the left arete of the scooped off-vertical face. Feels higher than it looks. Downclimb the backside with the help of a tree.

Start on obvious holds, find your way into the generous steep flake and mantle after some strenuous laybacking.

Rubik's Arete

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Routes in Clamshell Cave