The Ship's Prow Boulder

About the Area:

AKA. Four Corners, and Box Boulder.

This popular boulder has roughly four sides to it, and all of them are easy to moderate (some hard as well). Great boulder to learn stuff on, or to just get a good all around warm up. We've only included the two most popular faces of this boulder.

If you come to this boulder from the Great Slabs area you will see this face of the boulder first. In the distance, and to the right, you will see the Try Again boulder.

There are just too many routes to list here! But we'll try to point out the best ones. The obvious horizontal crack makes for a nice warm up, and is ideal for laps. There are numerous straight up variation on this face, and you can make them harder by ignoring the prominent horizontal crack. There are several great variations to the overhanging traverse in the photo (see below). A full traverse of the boulder starts on the far left of this photo and traverses all the way around moving to the right.

Don't miss this boulder! It's great for beginners, but diverse enough for experts to have some fun on, too. And it's close to everything!

Ken Davis travsersing the overhang on Ship' Prow.
Photograph by Amanda Davis.