Category: Circuits

Another Matt Lucas challenge. This circuit will chew through a few soles and spit out many souls.

1. Masterbator
2. Phat Slab
3. Black Slabbath
4. Kemoslabby
5. Bali Song
6. Public Sweat Towel
7. White Rhino (listed as Snake Pit in Squamish Bouldering 3rd Edition)

Matt Lucas threw down the gauntlet with The Impossible 7. It’s possible these impossibles still await a one-day circuit send. Let him know if you manage it.

1. Square Cut Low
2. Quick Stick
3. Sniper
4. Vitamin D
5. Shakedown Sit-down
6. University Crawl
7. Pat’s Problem (up and left of Mr. Bigglesworth)

Matt Lucas penned a horror for your finger tips when he published the Squamish Seven Terrors on his blog. You’ll need good skin and better conditions to get through this circuit of “moderate” problems in whichever order you choose.

1. Razorburn
2. First of the Seven Terrors
3. Good As Gold
4. Cream Puff Dream
5. Bad Day Low
6. Old Git
7. East Face (listed as An Hour Early in Squamish Bouldering 3rd Edition)

Matt making the First of the Seven Terrors look easy.

See Matt’s articles on Bad Day Low and Jamie Chong’s send.

It’ll take some hustle to climb any seven V7s after 7 pm without a headlamp. Long evenings makes this a good June challenge even on a work day.

Tim Catcher was likely the first to complete the Seven Sevens after Seven challenge all on one boulder.

1. Stand-up to Sit-down to Holm Boy
2. Square Cut Low
3. Mindbender
4. King Swing
5. Golden Boy
6. Master Plan
7. Hummer Traverse

Inspired by Tim Schaufele’s 25 x V4 circuit in the forest under The Grand Wall, I set out to create another 100 point circuit. After a bunch of research and a few re-cleans of good but forgotten problems, today I sent the 20 x V5 circuit.

1. Very French
2. A Kind of Magic
3. The Twist (called Twisted in Squamish Bouldering 3rd Edition)
4. The Squeeze
5. Smut Traverse
6. Legitimate Eliminate
7. Class Dismissed
8. Fire in the Disco
9. Busted
10. Jack’s Baby
11. Monkey Lunch
12. The Hoop Wrangler
13. Wafer Thin
14. Sloppy Poppy Traverse
15. Doubt
16. Viper
17. Gastonomical
18. Tim’s Sloper Problem
19. Gas Arete
20. It’s About Time

Alternates:

• Plan: Insanity
• Swank Stretch
• Anne of Green Gable
• Phat Slab

Tim Schaufele created an excellent 100 point circuit comprising 25 problems he considers V4. Climbing the whole circuit makes for a big but fun day.

1. Pocket Problem
2. Atlas
3. Trad Killer
4. Star Fish
5. The Golden Bowl (stand start)
6. Mantle Madness
7. Fish Food
8. Charge (stand start to Autobody)
9. The Rail Thing
10. Child Abuse
11. Lipsmack Traverse
12. Superfly
13. Easy in an Easy Chair
14. Palminator
15. Practical Horseman
16. Propagandi
17. Chicken Burger and the Devil
18. Skin Graft
19. Sloppy Poppy
20. Hmmm
21. Pulling Teeth
22. Thighmaster
23. Black Mark
24. Mantis
25. Timeless

Alternates:

• Squamish Jump Start
• Tea Bag Undies
• Tim’s Sloper Problem

Tim Schaufele published this circuit in the first issue of Squamish Climbing Magazine in August 2009. The PDF is still available on his site and contains maps and descriptions of the problems.

If you are looking for full value, be warned. Tim Doyle made it clear that “alternates are for pussies.”

If you like this circuit, you may also like the 20 x V5 circuit.

Back around 2002, it seemed that if a guy was looking for his girlfriend or maybe looking for a girlfriend, his search was best started with these five problems. They make a nice circuit of 20 points.

1. Viper V5
2. Sloppy Poppy V4
3. Bo Jo Jones V3
4. Superfly V4
5. Easy in an Easy Chair V4

For the extended version, add American Gigolo V3 into the mix.