Twist and Crawl is a contrived route that climbs an unnatural line. You need to seek out the hardest path to get to the 5.7 grade; there are several easier lines just a few feet away at most stances. This wandering route keeps you on the rock a bit longer as it stretches out to approximately 80' (or more) in length.

 Climb up a right-tending, blocky section to a ledge (i.e., comfortable stance). Start working your way back left on low-angle, featured rock that resembles a ramp. You will soon be out of sight from your belayer as you aim for the steep, but short, face that comes into view at the clifftop (climber's left). Traverse left along the steep face, and top out at the highest point (crux option #1) or a few feet right of the short, right-facing corner (crux option #2) to make this (barely) 5.7. There are several easy bail routes to avoid the aforementioned crux options, which may result in a ledge fall if you're on the sharp end.

Twist and Crawl

Arete

Easy Corner

Unnamed 5.9

Quick Step

Hair Line

Endgame

Lichen It

Scramble/climb straight up, or to the right of, a triangular block to access the big ledge where the pine tree has fallen over. Climb the left-trending crack system that begins on the right side of the vertical face. This leads to an alcove on the right side of the upper wall (keep off the right arete). Traverse left from this alcove to the upper, middle crack, and finish straight up this crack to the highest part of the face (same finish as Quick Step).

This is the longest natural line on this rock. One vertical move and much easy slab follows afterwards. There are plenty of good holds for your feet. It has been solo'd by a 6 year old in sneakers.

This route climbs the obvious corner to the left of the Quick Step face.

This is a fun, varied route with a bouldery start followed by thin crack climbing before the route meets up with Endgame at the end. See *Boston Rocks* for a more detailed description.

The crux is the first 15 feet.  Decent holds and tricky feet will get you up to a break at around 17 or so feet up.  From there, it is glorious, 5.4 bucketfest going up an fairly exposed position for the Fells.   Going right to the arete at 15 feet will take you off route.

Endgame has easy climbing broken up by 2 ledges.  The 5.7 moves only consists of the last 3 moves straight up the face and not using the arete.   It's about a 5.4 getting to that point.

Lichen It has good movement from right to left and thin face moves at the start. The cliff is broken up in 3 tiers with the hardest moves at the lower half.Look for a cleaned face of 6 to 8 feet across. The climb starts on the right on a good hold. Move up and left for 20 feet to the first ledge. Step down and right to a crack, place pro, and climb up and left for 20 feet to another ledge. From here, follow the path of least resistance to the top. Belay at the top on a gear anchor.As of this post, I could not find any recorded mention of this route. From the looks of the lichen on the route, I can’t imagine it has been climbed in decades if at all. I do have an inquiry to a person who did some FA in this area. If I get more information, I will update this later. For now, the first recorded free ascent is by Pete Grande and Tom Beers on 6/19/21.We gave the consensus grade of 5.8 as it fits into to grading of the other climbs in that area.

Description: This rock is listed as being up to 80 feet tall in Boston Rocks. Hmmm. It faces east. There are two fixed anchors at the southern most part of the crag. Ice forms near and in this gully during cold stretches.The GPS location is not accurate, but it is better than it used to be. Anyone with more accurate coordinate, let me know.L->R:A Facevarious bouldering problems to V5.A. Lichen It, 8 PG-13, 1p, 65', gear or TR.ice, M2.B FaceB1. Endgame, 7, 1p, 40', gear or TR.B2. Easy Off, 4.CB1. Unnamed 5.9, 9, 1p, gear or TR.C FaceD. Easy Corner, 3, 1p, 35', gear or TR.E. Quick Step, 8, 1p, 35', gear or TR.F. Hair Line, 6, 1p, 30', TR or gear.D FaceG. Twist and Crawl Wall, 7, 1p, 80, TR or gear.E Face.H. unknown, 8.I. Long Lead, 6.J. Arete, 4-5 PG-13, 1p, 60', TR or gear.K. Unknown, 10+.F Face

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Routes in Crag 6 aka Black Rock