I have found some small boulders that seem to be overlooked (i.e. it seems nobody has bothered to say they've climbed routes on them). I had a play on them, and there was only really `1-3 moves per 'problem' (i.e. one is a mantel, the other is a sit-start, pulling up on a jug to reach a finger lock, then doing an easy rockover, another is a tricky mantel using sidepulls that I didn't even manage as the landing was bad and I had only running shoes - this could likely be done with a sit-start to increase the difficulty). If it were next to much better rock I wouldn't bother, but it's the only rock for miles. Do these sound too 'crap' / short / easy to be bouldering problems? Or do they 'count' but are just bottom of the barrel?
If they are really that short and easy I doubt that many others would bother with them, saying that, if they are the only climbable rocks near you it might be worth making a note about them on the crag page.
You don't have to document the problems, it just lets people know that they are there.
They sound good for kids - short boulders can be great for them to play on wheras the emphasis in most bouldering development is always for a bit more length.
iv attempted a legitimate boulder problem in Dartmoor somewhere which is only about waist high! 'skin graft' I believe it was called... just a 1 move sit start-rock over thingy. so anything can be considered a problem if 1 or more ppl consider it worth of climbing!
> iv attempted a legitimate boulder problem in Dartmoor somewhere which is only about waist high! 'skin graft' I believe it was called... just a 1 move sit start-rock over thingy. so anything can be considered a problem if 1 or more ppl consider it worth of climbing!
Most climbing is a silly sport really - >90% of all climbs can toped easily reached by walking around the back so it is mainly self-imposed difficulty.
If the difficulty entertains you great, if it entertains others then it is probably a "problem" regardless of height.
In the former category I recall a problem that involved climbing something roughly the height of my knee which was bloody hard (lying under a long, thin, horizontal flake in a scoop in the sand and then climbing over the end of the flake using a strange combination of heel hooking, hugging the rock and manteling - it took me the best part of an hour to "climb" it and I could have easily "walked" it with one step in under a second.