Sit start or standing start going up good holds; worse holds on top, but the good footholds make topping out easy. Pleasant and solid V1+. Also possible to do a two-handed dyno to the top.  

O2 (from Mayer & Moret online guide)

Samet Problem

Unknown

N1 (from Mayer & Moret online guide), Hollow Roof

Balancing boulder problem

Africa

O1 (from Mayer & Moret online guide)

Unknown left of V11/12

Hung Like John

N2 (from Mayer & Moret online guide)

The Egg Shell

Dead Cat

Baby Steps

M4 (from Mayer & Moret overview map)

K-2 Easy Crack (from M&M Guide)

The V4

Unnamed right of Africa

Bulge

Goes up an easy slanting crack. A little balancy.

Crux begins just after getting the left-handed crystal sloper. Good problem with cool features if you can look past the contrivance. A dare-I-say-classic?

Start either by making the desperate first move pulling off two bad crimps or jump to reach the white crystal. Smear your feet and on make the technical/painful/hard moves to finish slightly up and right. Definitely friction dependent and tests pain tolerance. Quite fun though.

 Mayer & Moret describe this problem as: M2.5, "A jump start to a good hold of white crystals high up on the smooth face; the only hard part is sticking the hold on the jump (call it V2+), the rest is a fairly easy mantel. Too short to be good, but unusual!"

The hollow part is below the roof. Sit-start and come out on the left. Incredible foot hook; get the big black knob on the left, throw to a good knob on the black part low on the right, move up your left foot, and top out using the crack in the middle of the top. Say V2+ (you need good flexibility and sufficient reach to get the good knob on the right while holding the large black knob on the left; if you're shorter than 5'7", call it V4-ish)    

2 ways to do this problem. Either way, you start using the disk-shaped dark blob, about the size of a frisbee, at chest height. - Easier start uses the podium rock for feet. Start standing on it, with both hands underclinging the frisbee. Reach high to get onto the chalked sloper, match it, and work your way up from there. Some people move off the sloper with their right hand, others go up with their left. - Harder start avoids using the podium altogether, and only allows you to use the balancing boulder itself for hands and feet. Start with both hands on the frisbee, and feet out left. Swing up into the sloper (whee!), and move up from there. This variation is probably V3+ or V4-.

 L1, "Sloper Problem," from Mayer & Moret overview map. From their online guide: "On the south side, start from an undercling/sidepull and roll up to the sloper, match and work up to the upper sidepull. I found the large crystals beside the sloper to be helpful.  V3-ish; foot placement is the key to the whole problem."

Definitely one of the hardest problems at U-Mound (in my opinion a grade harder than Hito, especially now since it broke)  

  Probably more in the neighborhood of hard V12 now. Stand start somewhere in the V8-V9 realm.  

  An alternate right variation takes the same start and angles across the face to finish on the Samet Problem. (Slightly easier than the original variation in its present state.)

Goes up the east coast of the detached flake that resembles the continent (or is it a country?... heck, I can't see it from my house, so who cares?). Sit start beta goes something like: South Africa --> Kenya --> Uganda --> Somalia --> Libya --> then up to Europe and top out due north. Harder for short people.

 This is problem M2 on the Mayer & Moret overview map.

Three hard moves on a steep face on pointy crimpers with bad feet. V4 or so; the whole trick is to keep at least one foot on...    

Crux is the first move. Other than that, it's quite a nice power-problem.

Starting low in the crack of the balancing boulder make the long moves out the steep prow/arete on sharp crimps to the lip where the challenging mantle awaits. Stand start is V6.

Immediately right (as you face the boulder) of N1, the crack used for top-out on N1 comes to the lip; move up along this crack and top out; similar moves on topout, but the reach is reasonable here; perhaps V2-.

The Egg Shell (not entirely sure of the name) starts to the left of Hung Like John down low in the crack and continues straight up ultimately to a sharp, egg-like shaped hold and a move that revolves around a difficult high-step to gain access to the top. Mantle.

One of the better easy problems at the U-mound and about the only steep one. 

  Start from the crack in the downhill side of the pedestal and make a long move or two up to gain the angling crack. Surf the crack up and to the left to where it becomes a big rounded lip. Move straight up, there are holds up there but they are a ways away.

Walk up the ankle breaker boulder, and make a committing step onto the slab; easy topout. A fun warmup.

A sit start at the base of a big crack. The crack is easy, but use good technique or you'll lose skin. Call it V0+.

Starts right of the Samet Problem, on low holds in the crack. Make the fun moves right to the flat ledge feature and continue up and right avoiding the crack. Another contrivance, but is quite fun.

Start with a hold high up in the crack, and move up to holds on either side of the crack. Topout can be slightly right or slightly left of crack. Either way is rather exciting for those challenged by V2.

 A cool V2 on the lower boulder (the one in the middle/right in the topo). Start on high holds in the crack, and go straight up from there. There are holds to the right as well as left of the crack, and you can top out on either side (but stay close to the crack). Topout can be a bit scary if you're not very solid on V2 - this photo angle doesn't give a good sense of the height or commitment.

 This is problem M3 on the Mayer & Moret overview map.

Start on the big shelf at about waist height. Match both hands and left heel on this hold (right foot flags under the rock). Cross through with the left hand to a sidepull, then swing out right to a crimp. Crux is getting your feet set up under you to move to the upper crimps. Slabby topout.

There are a few good problems on the balancing boulder, on the south, east, and north sides. The problems on the north side of the balancing boulder and the adjacent northern aspect of the big boulder (to the west) are hard and rather awkward - one has a wicked rockover that tweaked my meniscus. The south face of the big boulder is a nice place to end the day, particularly on cooler evenings, as it catches the last rays of sun.

O2 (from Mayer & Moret online guide)

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Routes in Lower Mound (western cluster of boulders)