Start crouching on flake, and move left into crimps under the small roof. Find your way onto the good sloper above roo,f and mantle to the slab.

Spider Hut

Yosemini

Eagle Claw

Waldo's Warf

Swim Dodge

Rick Choss

COVID's Pastime

Stinky Britches

Dragonfly

Arrowhead

The Yawn Wall

Begone Choss

Sit start with right hand on arete and left on shelf. Bump your right hand up and a left sloper leads to a jug topout.

Yosemini is super fun. Start on two small tiny feet and a tiny crimp rail, and move up to the right to tiny slots (if you have large hands) - they are only baby slots if you have small hands. Slap up and over the top, and continue up like Spider Hut. The best this boulder has to offer. 

This problem starts as a traverse from right to left with your right hand in a low undercling and your left hand on good sidepull. Move up to crimp rail, reach low and left for undercling, shift feet to left, and match (crux).

Sit start on the right arete using a high pinch and a low jug (a high right heal might help too), then work up and left.

Sit Start on two good crimps. Move out left to a good sloper, then up to great pinch. Re-adjust your feet, and flag out to an awkward crimp on the left slabby section. Mantel up, and top out without using the exposed rock to the far left. There is a good seam to crimp for the topout.

Go straight up the choss using difficult to identify holds - avoid using the seam to the left, and avoid the jugs and right side. This goes straight up, can be a puzzle, and is a little awkward/heady towards the top. This is one of the sketchier lines if you want a more pure highball-ish experience.

Start with two hands on an undercling crimp. Pull up, and reach your left hand to slab/sloper that is circled in picture. Your right hand goes far to a good hold (gaston, sort of). Your left hand goes to a pinch to the left of your right hand. Your right hand bumps up to a pinch then bumps up again to a decent ledge. Your left goes up, and the rest is obvious.

Use the same start and first move as Eagle Claw, but go straight up the face using a hidden high crimp and a bad/shallow two finger pocket. It finishes on jugs on the top of the boulder.

Start matched on the massive undercling, work your left hand up to a good jug, then move your hand up to a pretty solid pinch, bring your feet up, and dyno/deadpoint to the obvious lip.

The Yawn Wall is a traverse which extends into Stinky Britches. The start holds are a tiny crimper 1-2 fingers with not much room for a full pad and one relatively great side crimper very close by. The feet are great. Pop off your left hand, swing into the undercling jug, traverse right, match on the undercling, deadpoint to the rail on Stinky Britches, and complete the problem.

This should be done in late fall or early spring, the winter eradicates the choss thar makes this unviable in the warmer months. Use the same start as Stinky Britches: move over to the right with a fun cross, then traverse until you reach the mostly blank right face of the rock. Slab it to the top a la Freeblast. There are obvious, good handholds and fun feet to fully weight.

Perhaps this is the Northernmost bouldering in Massachusetts? A single, large, granite block offers a multitude of problems and eliminates in the V0-V3 range up to 20 feet in height. New problems have been added recently which could use some repeats to find grade consensus - harder climbs are trying to be painstakingly established. This is trying to be turned into a very fun hangout boulder. Some highballs are possible as well if you don't mind the choss or go during the right conditions.

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Routes in Scotland Boulder aka Haystack Boulder