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Pastafarian

V9, Boulder, 20 ft (6 m),  Avg: 3 from 8 votes
FA: Aaron James Parlier
Virginia > Southwest Virgi… > Grayson Highlan… > Picnic Area > Picnic Area Bou… > Olympus Boulder

Description

This is the low start to "Flying Spaghetti Monster"...

Find the high start pinch to "FSM" and then look several feet below the pinch to find two tiny crimps.

The starting left crimp is about a half pad in width and sculpted into a pinkish colored dropstone, the right crimp is about a foot to the right and is a little less than a half pad. Find a foot, pull on, grab the higher crimp, and blast way up and back overhead to the start pinch on "FSM". Hang on and finish as per.

Notes and updates: Originally the sequence/beta for FSM was closer to V10. In 2019 a "new" crimp appeared and changed the sequence/difficulty of Pastafarian to V9. A flake broke or was taken out leaving an additional in-cut left hand crimp. Instead of a big right hand bump or big right handed dead-point to the start hold of FSM, you could move up into the closer left hand crimp and proceed. That crimp broke in 2023 (when used as a foot hold for FSM) and the original beta still stands. Pasta might be V10 again. Time will tell.

Location

Olympus.

Protection

Pads

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Taking a lap on the Pasta
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Starting hands to "The Pastafarian"
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"The Pastafarian" FA
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"The Pastafarian" (Start to FSM... Finish as per)
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Aaron James Parlier on the starting crimps for the FA of "The Pastafarian"
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