We study of the properties of a new class of circumgalactic medium absorbers identified in the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest: "Strong, Blended Lyman-$\alpha$" (or SBLA) absorption systems. We study SBLAs at $2.4 -2.45$ for $T=10^{3.5}$K and show gas clumping on $<255$ parsec scales. We fit multiphase models to this strong sub-population and find a low ionization phase with $n_H=1$cm$^{-3}$, $T=10^{3.5}$K and $[X/H]=0.8$, an intermediate ionization phase with $\log(n_H / $cm$^{-3}) = -3.35$, $T=10^{3.5}$K and $[X/H]=-1.1$, and a poorly constrained higher ionization phase. We find that the low ionization phase traces cold, dense super-solar metallicity gas with a clumping scale of just 0.009 parsecs.