A four move wonder, Pulling tubes starts on a heavily chalked, sloping rail and moves through a stout bulge.

Pulling Tubes

La Puerta del Baño

Asphalt or Pythagorean Theorem

The Ewoker

Pinch Loaf

el bano right

El Bano

Snack Eyes

Paparazzi

The Triple Slaps

Tooth, The

El Bano Direct

Sit start with your right pinching a block and your left in a left-facing sidepull. Follow sloper rails up and then left. Top out on the arete. A strong core helps with this one.

Sit start on the incut sloper rail and three finger pocket. Pull your way past good crimps and a jug pinch to gain the obvious knob. Easier climbing leads straight up to the top out.

Under cling up to a solid triangle (hence the routs name) follow the jugs up to a graduated pinch and sloper, follow through with a top-out

The Ewoker starts on Pythagorean but cuts right after the first few moves to a traverse on heinous slopers and a tricky top out.

Start low on chalky jugs under bulge to the right of el bano direct. Climb up with choice combo of jugs and slopers, not sure which holds might be considered off.

Sit start on jugs and climb left using a pocket, a sloper and a sidepull until you reach an obvious crimp high on the face. Make a big move right to slap the top of the boulder. This is the fun part.. Work your feet and topout.

Little tough for the grade and classic!

 Start matched on the right facing rail. Move to the crimp, the snack eye holds, and up left to top out. 

 Top out the boulder and down climb the left face of the boulder by the tree. Also the best down climb for Anti-scoop. 

Basically one hard move, but it's a really fun move. Start with triangular block for the left and crimp for the right. Use anything you want for feet, work up into the gaston, and shoot up to the sloper. One or two more slaps stabilizes, and you can stand up. Not as cool as others at a similar difficulty at Rocktown, but I'm not sure I've ever enjoyed a thrutchy one-move-wonder as much as I enjoyed this climb. 

  There's also a v9 sit, but unfortunately it is contrived. For that, you start on the two crimps low (the left one you can use as a kind of hook/jam thing for two fingers), and power up to the crimps and slopers in the pod at chest height. Don't use the hand swallowing jugs on the left (slightly off line, yes, but I'm still a little bitter that this was supposed to be ultra classic and it's an eliminate). From there, finish with the stand start.

Low start matched underclinging a big hueco.  Slap up through three big slopey buckets.

Start as per Paparazzi Sit. Head right a finish per Ewoker Traverse (grovel).

Sit start on jugs and reach for a 'softball' undercling. Work up the flaring crack until you can lunge for the slopey topout holds.

At the end of the Trail, Asphalt is a awesome little gulch with some sweet overhangs and some interesting cracks.

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Routes in Asphalt Boulders