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Subject: Left Hand of Darkness
Rating: V9
Quality: 3 stars
Location: Tram
Notes: Steep Cranking!
Left Hand of Darkness is a great steep and powerful boulder
problem. Not only does it climb out of the juiciest section
of an ominous black boulder, but it also finishes with
a big slap for the moderately tall top of the stone. The
problem is actually a sit down extension of the classic
Over the Boardwalk problem, which was first put
up by Wills Young just before the turn of the century.
Dan Mills made the logical extension to the large shelf
below (around '04), christening the addition Left Hand
of Darkness.
The problem starts as a sit at a large shelf that runs
across the bottom of the boulder. From there, long reaches
lead out the bulge on thin tramslots and crimps, to an
upper horizontal crack. Follow the crack to the left for
about three feet and launch for the sloping top!
-R. Miramontes
Climber: Daniel Woods
Photos: C. Anastasi
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