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Pratt Overhang.

Description 

While lacking in size this rock is very big in history. Gill, Ament, Holloway, you name them and they have bouldered here. The name sake, the Smith Overhang, is THE line to do.


Getting There 

Park for the Monkey Traverse. This small and slightly overhanging face is twenty feet before (just to the north) of the Monkey Traverse. It is marked by a crack splitting the face and a down climbing tree on the right.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Pratt's Rock aka Pratt's Overhang:
Crystal Corner   V2+     Boulder, 15 feet   
Pratt's Mantle   V2+     Boulder, 10 feet   
Pratt's Overhang   V3     Boulder, 10 feet   
Aerial Burial   V3     Boulder, 10 feet   
Gill Swing   V4     Boulder, 10 feet   
Smith Overhang   V8     Boulder, 10 feet   
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Crystal Corner.

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Begin as for Gill Swing on a "down-facing edge but use the obvious crystal to gain the top." The "crystal" is more of a smooth pebble that has been split in half. Body tension helps to establish onto the problem but even after that it is stiff at V2. ...[more]   Browse More Classics in CO


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By Colin Lantz
From: Nederland, CO
Apr 3, 2004

Actually, this is miscataloged - Smith Overhang is a problem, not a separate rock. Smith Overhang is found on the Pratt's Overhang block. BTW - P.B. & B.H. refer to this as Smith's Overhang while P.A. calls it Smith Overhang. I have always heard it referred to as Smith Overhang. It used to be that you always saw a cheater block under this problem for the start. The 2000 B.H B.O.B.B called this V5, surely describing the then standard cheater stone start. It seems that in the last few years that the harder off the ground variant has become widely accepted as the 'true" Smith Overhang. It's V8 and maybe V9 when starting from the ground, i.e. start low before the glued side pull.

By Colin Lantz
From: Nederland, CO
Apr 20, 2004

Has anyone done, or seen another do, the Holloway traverse on this block? It's called The Stretcher (FA '73) and Horan called it B2-3/V9 in the 1995 CFRB vol. 2. stating, "Holds have broken and being tall is crucial."

By Chip Phillips
From: Broomfield, CO
Feb 21, 2010

To be technically precise mods, I believe Ament always refered to this block as "Pratt's Rock" ... which is home to Pratt's Mantel and Pratt's Overhang.