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Description 

Best bouldering in the Adirondacks. Located on county road 33 (McKenzie Pond Road) near saranac lake and lake placid. The pull off is right across the road from an old abandoned barn. There are four sets of boulders. Nearly every problem is of good quality. Nothing harder than V10. Most of the rock is sharp and clean. Landings are nearly all perfectly safe. There are a decent number of problems that are higher than is typical in other areas. If a second pad is "required" it is usually noted in the description of the route. Some problems such as Time Will Tell on the Second Set have horrible landings, but, with enough pads, are protectable enough to be safe, and are totally awesome climbs worth bringing the extra gear back for.

McKenzie Pond draws people in from all over the place, but overall, I wouldn't call the pond a stand alone destination for a visit from a substantial distance. If you were up in the Adirondacks and felt like a day of bouldering, you will be very pleasantly surprised. If you are relatively nearby though, it is definitely a place worth becoming familiar with. Very nice spot to change the pace of jamming the great cracks in Keene.


Getting There 

The dirt pull off is right across the road from the old Hunt farmhouse. The pull off will be on your right coming from Lake Placid, and on your left coming from Saranac lake. The first set of boulders is visible from the pull off. The boulders of each set are pretty close together, with relatively short trails connecting each of the sets. There are trails to the first three sets. The fourth set is not currently documented, and does not have a trail from the third set, but the rock back there is mostly clean, pretty tall, and worth checking out if you feel like some exploring. It is located a couple minutes east and downhill from the boulders in the Third Set.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Mckenzie Pond Boulders:
Rooster's Holiday   V0     Boulder   Second Set : Second Set Boulder
Popsicle   V0     Boulder   Second Set : Second Set Boulder
Makaia's Problem   V1     Boulder   First Set : Makaia
Slabadon   V2     Boulder   Second Set : Second Set Boulder
Giant Sucker   V2     Boulder   Second Set : Second Set Boulder
Block Top   V2     Boulder   First Set : Front Boulder
Thrust Fault   V3     Boulder   Third Set : Ball of Fame
Great Roof of China   V3     Boulder   Second Set : Second Set Boulder
Shtickums   V4     Boulder   Third Set : The Boneyard
Slobadon   V5     Boulder   First Set : Front Boulder
Time Will Tell   V5     Boulder   Second Set : Second Set Boulder
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Featured Route For Mckenzie Pond Boulders
Such a classic climb. You can see pretty much the whole problem here. I picked a picture with us in it for scale so you can see how tall the top out ramp is.

Great Roof of China V3  NY : Adirondacks : ... : Second Set Boulder
One of the most unique boulder problems I've ever seen. It starts at the head height horizontal hand crack below the great big roof, moves up and left to the top of the right facing corner where it meets the ceiling. Slap out for the lip of the roof, traverse right to the big horn, and top out on the blunt right facing, left rising corner....[more]   Browse More Classics in NY


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By Jim Lawyer
Administrator
Feb 3, 2012

A note to those adding boulder problems at McKenzie Pond:

Many problem descriptions added in this section were taken word-for-word from the local guidebook. Obviously this is not allowed on Mountain Project. And, no, changing a single word in a sentence doesn't fly either.

Please refrain from plagiarizing guidebook descriptions.

Descriptions deemed to be plagiarized will be removed from the site.

By Owen Summerscales
From: Los Alamos, NM
Mar 6, 2013

Im just some random person - but I dont see how a guidebook author copyrights the description to a set of moves established by someone else on a piece of rock that is owned by nobody?

By Jim Lawyer
Administrator
Mar 6, 2013

Owen --

Writing is creative expression and is copyrightable. Facts are not copyrightable; e.g., FA info, route names, route ordering. It has nothing to do with who owns a boulder, who did the FA, what the moves are, or where a route goes.

There's lots of discussion of plagiarism on various threads. Copying descriptions from any guidebook onto Mountain Project is not allowed (unless permission is granted by the copyright holder). Descriptions copied from guidebooks that find their way onto MP are routinely removed by site administrators.