A crimping piece de resistance.  Start low on some crimps and continue crimping up and right to a long move out to the arete. Get your crimp on!

Rorschach Test

Shaft

The Aquarium

Fingercrack

Behind the Mothership

Water Hazard

Darkness at Noon

Beefcake

It's All About Love

Fueled By Hate

Bottom Feeder

Aquatic Hitchiker

Frostbite

Wiggles and Giggles

Water Hazard Right

Loaded

Erotic Terrorist

Beefy Gecko

Cream Horn

Beautiful Gecko

Mr. Mackey

Mothership Connected

Byrolian Traverse

Bubba Escapes the Ward

Mothership Connection

Undercling Problem

Mecha-Streisand

The Ninth Wave

Chizam SDS

Chizam

Start with the left hand in a bad undercling side pull and the right hand on a weird slopey pinch like hold. Footholds are pretty slick. Make a move left hand to a sloper or a big move up to a good hueco, or from the left hand sloper get a right heel hook and to up right hand to hueco.

From the hueco match hands and move your hands up the left side of it for more reach. Hike your feet up and go to a terrible pinch as an intermediate or make a big throw for better holds at the lip. Swing the feet left to top out. Cool movement in a cool location!

Do you like overhanging compression problems? Then this guy might be for you.

Start as for Aquatic Hitchhiker and make some hard moves past the pocket to the jug finish of the problem.

Instead of dropping off, take some deep breaths and climb leftwards on decent rails, and make your way across the cave and top-out around the corner as for Beefcake.

This full value line will most likely pump you out and punt you off going to a jug near the finish.

Remember to breath, and shaking out on the jug finish of Aquatic Hitchhiker could prove useful.

There is a direct finish for Aquatic Hitchhiker as well, but it has a terrifying finish.

Fingerlock or layback the thinner crack in the corner of this area.

Something to pass the time while others in your party are working the various problems around these parts. From the start area of Mothership Connection head straight up the chimmney above you tunneling through to the light at the top. Don't hit your head when exiting. The start is the crux when you have nothing infront of your legs.

Start as for Bubba Escapes the Ward, but head up and slight right to the lip(crux) then up the tall face above.  Pretty cool.

Start with the lowest possible left hand and a low right sidepull.  Slap up right then continue hugging.  A bit short and the exit is somewhat confined, but it offers cool compression moves for the grade.

Start underclinging the roof with feet on the back wall and follow the left-most rail system out the roof, breaking hard left to exit.  Head for the light!  It is considered bad form to use the "3rd rock" when exiting.  Don't dab -- you can do it if you put your mind to it...

A sds to Fueled by Hate.  Start matched on a crimp and make a couple of hard pulls up to the big left side-pull.  Then it gets easier.  Note the paucity of feet at the start.  Yeah, baby, remember to use your rubber.

Start left on a great side-pull, and right hand on any of several small crimps, mimps, or pimps. Make a long pull up to a cool pinch and then some crimps to a hidden pocket/jug.

Beta: It might help to start with the left foot on first in the crack.

Route Update 2020: Left hand start hold has broken clean off.

Start right hand on the "match" hold of beefcake, left hand on the toe hook to get the jug hole of Beefcake (left side of the horizontal fridge block).  Squeeze and your way straight out the fridge block into the topout of Beefcake.  Scrunchy, lowball and very powerful.  Left heel hand match on the left start hold is the crux.  May feel impossible if you're tall.

A lower start (project) exists starting on Beefcake and busting left at the match hold.  It felt around V12 or so.

Start with a left hand crimp on the roof and right hand on a pinch on the other side of the wall. Pull on and place your left heel above your left hand. Make a few moves and finish on the jug of Beefy Gecko. The back wall is not used.

A good problem outshined by it's brethren "It's All About Love". Sit start in the diagnol crack as for the mentioned problem or slightly left. Climb up using the arching crack system until it runs out.

Climb direct or left to some delicate moves on crimps. A little scary top out with the wall behind. Fun challenging climbing.

Foot holds at the start are hard to find and slightly polished.

Begin on the block next to the start of Erotic Terrorist, insert yourself into the roof crack then move towards Cream Horn. Go up where the crack widens and topout above Mecha-Streisand.

Crouch-start variation to the right of Water Hazard V10. Use opposing gastons situated to the right of Water Hazard, then continue directly up to the shared top out.

Climb the scoopy feature at the cave entrance, pressing and stemming on a variety of small features to gain a hueco up high. Good times.

Start on the left side of the high roof.  The moves are fun, and not too hard once you have it sussed, but crux is not dabbing the rock to your left.  If the rock wasn't there, you could just throw for the jug and it would be a whole lot easier.  Work out some jessery.

A Hybrid link-up.  Start as for Beefcake, but when you get to the "jug,"  head rightwards to end as for Windchill (drop-off).  The big hold as you traverse right that allows for a wrist-cam/handjam is off.  It's an eliminate I suppose, but you'd be using the other boulder to use that hold anyway.  Use the obvious crimp instead.  Pumpy.

Climb the off-width crack squeezing past the Chef boulder at one point.  The landing becomes better up higher.

The grade is a guess -- Kevin suggested 5.11/5.12, which for an off-width is going to be nastier than the V0 suggested in the Bishop guide.

This is one of the prouder crack problems in Bishop.

Start on the undercling feature just right of the start of Beefcake with feet on the back wall.  Follow the middle rail leftwards to join Beefcake at the jug.  Finish as for Beefcake.

This problem has changed quite a bit since the first ascent with several major breakages thus upping the grade.  Powerful climbing.

Start on the obvious underclings under the lip with the crack behind you.  Pull on (not that easy), and slap for the lip.  Traverse the lip left, slightly until you can mantle over.  Some people top out right, but this is not the original topout (variation)

On the normal topout there is a high micro-crimp for the right hand that allows you to flip the left into a mantle.

This is a great problem worth seeking out.

Stand start with left hand on a good edge and right hand on the other side of the boulder. Pull on and climb right through good pockets to join "Mothership Connection".

Start on an obvious edge to the right of The Undercling Problem.  Make a couple of hard moves to join that problem and finish the same.

A sit start to the Undercling Problem.  Start on with left hand on a very low sidepull and right hand on a low positive crimp.  Make a big move left to join the Undercling problem.

From the block move into a horizontal crack with your right and get a good jam so that you can reach way out over the lip onto the face and some good holds. Some toe cams in the crack ease the transition to the overhanging face. Fun big moves on good holds take you up the face to the top. The worst part about the problem is that at times you feel like you could barndoor right into the boulder next to you.

This problem starts on a large obvious undercling just right of Chizam.  From the undercling head up and left to finish as for Chizam.

Climb like a mechanized Barbara Streisand.  Start hanging at the lip of the arete.  Campus/heelhook your way up to mantle out.  Dry humping may be necessary.

Start low on the lip on a flat "shelf." Traverse the lip leftwards to meet up with and finish as for Mr. Mackey. Pumpy!  If you top out early, before you move past the wide crack at your back, you are cheating the full reward of difficulty.  In other words, the grade isn't soft, you are ;)

This climb was first listed in the Dr. Topo guide as "The Ninth Wave" and was established by Chris Nuttycombe.  Later, others called it different names.  This is an often overlooked problem and the rock quality is immaculate. Deserves more traffic.

The ultimate project is the link up of this problem into Mecha-Streisand. That would be a mecha-classic enduro problem.

Sit start with a very low right sidepull and a low left crimp.  get a tricky left heel near the hand. and crank left up to the side pull then upwards.  Powerful and often thought to be hard for the grade.

Start on a right-hand knob about 7-ft off the ground.  A small foot about waist-high gets you off the ground as you throw for the left-hand crimp on the arete.  Bump up to the sloper for your left, and the horizontal slot for your right.  The top is juggy but requires some care.

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