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Northeast Crack Bouldering
  Diagonal crack in Colebrook CT |
  Colebrook CT |
 Colebrook CT |
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lots of boulders with cracks at haycock in eastern pa.......its a maze of shit walking around in there though. plan on getting lost on your way back out, but youll eventually find your way..... |
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Hey Dales, do those go with jams and locks? Looks like a lot of face holds too. I know around me many of the cracks go as face climbs. Glad to see problems added to that area! That v4 that just went up on the arete looks nice! |
Tim McGivern wrote: Hey Dales, do those go with jams and locks? Looks like a lot of face holds too. I know around me many of the cracks go as face climbs. Glad to see problems added to that area! That v4 that just went up on the arete looks nice! The “vladicus crack” I posted last night is a relatively short but comfortable hand-to-fist and foot jam, using just the crack until the topout. |
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There is a highball hand crack on the way to C Chimney/Never Never Land that I've looked at a couple of times. It's right next to the stream. I don't think it's ever been climbed. I'd help you clean it if we can share the FA! |
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Does Slingshot at Ragged Mountain count? |
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I needed this thread in my life. |
 New find yesterday, pair of hand size splitter cracks about 12-14’ tall in Colebrook CT. Follow the orange trail up the east side of the horseshoe cliff and you cant miss it. |
  Horizontal cracks that look fun, also just found yesterday |
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Been quietly updating my OP, will add links to all of the original list sometime. I'll get to some more additions in the thread above eventually too. Here's a pic of Shadows Everywhere while we're at it  |
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Area 51 at Pawtuckaway has some good ones, including a really nice 15ish foot hand to fist crack called Yosemite Crack. The Firetower area at Pway is another good area to explore for crack boulders. Also EZ's Problem at Pway if you ignore the original beta and climb it like a crack / flared chimney. |
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would love to see some more people tryout this offwidth roof cavey thing i put up last winter in cape ann, its right in the vicinity of thee offwidth so you could hit both. nocturnal me v4   |
z sweep wrote: Looks sick! I'll have to make a weekend down to Mass to try that and Thee Offwidth. We also just did a new invert by Chapel Pond for those of you looking for some Adirondack action. We rated it 5.11 V3, though I have no idea how to grade these things. Handjam start to an invert section to horizontal fists and an undercling finish. <1 minute approach  |
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Ugh I definitely need to spend some more time at Pway too. This past weekend up at Chapel Pond we removed the stand start of Wook in a Nook by reversing the line to climb into the cave, continuing past the original stand-start with a burly lip turn and 25' of hero highballing to wrap it up. The complete line is King Ghidorah. I went with 5.11+ V4, about 45' long. I suspect it's probably a touch easier but I went with my gut feeling on this one... More specifically, it was a feeling like I was about to vomit. I hope there will be more like it around!  Also in local crack bouldering news, Keelhauled in the Gunks got a second ascent by Dustin Portzline and third ascent by Kathy Karlo, which doubled as the first female ascent! A 40ish foot offwidth roof, 8' off the ground! Probably thee testpiece of northeastern crack bouldering there... Link to an Instagram post was added to the OP |
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Couple more in Eastern Mass.: |
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A great splitter thin hands crack boulder at Farley in MA. V0.  |
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at Dogtown on Cape Ann, Massachusetts there's a few I'm aware of, and probably more:
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Ouraboras (spelling?) at Snowy Mtn, V7 |
