An excellent pitch that is atypical for the Gunks - more subtle and balancy than usual.
Look for a right-slanting crack system that starts about 55' left of The Spring.
P1: Climb up and right, through a small overhang, and finish with a funky rightward traverse as the crack bends. This pitch ends on a nice ledge with a rap anchor (also the TR anchor for The Fall). 5.8, 80'.
P2: If you keep going, work back left and skirt the roof above on the left. Then climb somewhat vegetated rock to the GT Ledge. 5.6, 100'.
Location
The Bold-Ville access trail is about a 19-min. walk from the Uberfall, and a 15-min. walk from where the East Trapps Connector Trail meets the carriage road. This is just past a boulder with bouldering routes on it. Bold-Ville starts about 55' left of The Spring, a left-facing corner with a spring at its base. Bold-Ville is about 170' right of Double Crack.
Regarding pitch 1: If you follow the curving crack to its end and then go straight up to the anchor for The Winter, you've actually gone off route. Dick Williams' description calls for you to leave the crack and go through the little roof at its first break, which was the crux for me.
And I agree, the second pitch is great, although it is pretty short, and then you end up at the anchor above The Nose, which consists of two old angle pitons. People rap from this anchor every day but it didn't give me a good feeling, and ascending up to the GT ledge or the top from this point is a filthy bushwhack.
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