Metallic climbs the line of thin, slopey crimps just left of Zigzag Crack. Start with your hands on two crimps at about the seven foot mark. This is a perfect problem for a cold day because it's all about whatever friction you can get from the raspy starting holds. Place a foot on and toss to better holds. After establishing on the next set of crimps, the problem eases in difficulty. Top out just to the left of Zigzag in a little groove.

Metallic

Good Morning Midnight

Drop The World

Zig-Zag Crack Variation

Diamond in the Muff

Bemis

Zig Zag Crack

The Truth

Moose Tracks

Scumbag Blues

Diagonal

Start sitting a few feet to the right of Moose Tracks on a sloping left hand crimp and a very small right hand crimp, pick some feet and stand up to match the seam in two positive spots. Once established in the crack move your feet up and make a long move out right to a sloper. Establish on the sloper with your right hand and make a tension move to a jug up near the arete and top out.

This is the definition of a low ball. Start laying under the boulder with your right hand on the arete and your left hand on a crimp. Heel hook with your right and flag your left out. Pull up and pop to the jug at the top. The crux of this route is not hitting the ground with any part of your body while making the toss to the top and topping out. 

  This route is short but it is the type of route that you enjoy and are not sure why, but you just cant walk away until you do it. 

Start sitting at the only decent hold on the right-hand side of the face with the Zig-Zag crack, and traverse left into the crack on small sloping seams, using a shallow mono somewhere along the way. Finish up the crack.

Start matched on the slopper left of the tree, make a big move up and right. Work right straddling the tree traversing on sloppers until you reach the obvious jug. From the jug go straight up and top out.

This route is short but has some fun moves. Start sitting with you left hand on a good hold about two feet off the ground and right had on the large rail. Pick your feet stand up and move you left hand up and left to a small, knob-ish hold, then comes the crux foot move. Move it up to a small positive edge then move right hand up to the top which in the wrong place could be considered slopey. Don't use the boulders on either side of you, they are off route. This route is fun but short if it was another ten feet tall it could be a classic, but with this said I still believe you should do it.

Zig Zag Crack is perhaps the best V1 boulder problem in all on New England if not in all of the country. Yes, that is high praise, but this problem lives up to the hype. 

  Locate the obvious crack on the Zig Zag Boulder and follow the crack using fingerlocks, laybacks, and high steps. The problem is about 15 feet high and would qualify as a highball if not for the perfect landing. A much harder variation (V9) starts as a sit to the right and climbs into the crack.

The crux is the sit start. Get a good right foot and a semi good left foot. Grab the tiny crimp for the right and the decent left hand crimp. Pull up and grab the good crimp and the crimp just to the left of that. Get some feet on okay holds. Reach left again to gain a good hold and jump for the top. 

  There is a V1 variation if you just stand start it with the good holds.

Locate the blunt prow on the left side of the Zig Zag Crack face. Moose Tracks starts as a sit and moves up through crimps to a relatively low top out. 

  The moves are interesting and the holds are positive, which makes Moose Tracks a good tick after Zig Zag Crack.

This is a link-up of sorts, it doesn't have many independent moves but I thought it deserved its own route listing because it climbs different then the two routes it shares moves with.Start as for Zig-Zag Crack (V1) and move up until the obvious triangle jug, once here move left with the seam into the top of Metallic (V7). The route meets up with Metallic (V7) post crux, in a short dihedral. Then top out, there is a good hold for the top out, it just isn't obvious from the dihedral.The route could use a little cleaning on the top but the crux is very clean. The crux is the transfer between the two routes which can either be done with a long span move or using small crimps.I dont know if this has been done before, I figure someone has done it at some point because it seems to be an obvious variation, so if anyone has a name or FA credit let me know.

Stand start using underclings with very weird feet, either under the underclings or out to your left, make a few hard moves on underclings and weird holds until you reach the large right trending crack. Work up the crack using a variety of techniques including hand jams, fist jams, and others, until the end of the crack from there top out straight up.  

  Be careful of the boulder you must climb over it is large but a fall in the wrong spot could send you to the doctors with ankle injuries.

This boulder features the famous Zig Zag Crack. Just east of the Moat Boulder, locate the boulder with the classic, splitter crack on its sheer face. That is the Zig Zag Crack and this is the Zig Zag Boulder. 

  Quality problems climb both sides of the crack. The descent is down a simple slab to the uphill side of the crack.

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Routes in The Zig Zag Boulder