Stand start for S.O.S. Start with your left hand on the block edge as for SOS and your right hand on the top of the ramp on a sloper. This foregoes the scrunchy start and the distinct crux move.

S.O.S. (Stand)

The Titanic

S.O.S.

Tipping Point

Icebergs Aren't Real

The Perfect Storm

Nosepass

Sit start the base of the ramp in a dihedral with your left hand on the block ledge and your right hand on a crimp sidepull. Make big move out right, and finish straight up.

Here it is: the king line of Douglas State Forest and possibly Central Massachusetts as a whole. Start sitting with your hands matched at the lowest point on a huge, chalked up flake directly beneath the inspiring prow. Make a move or two along the flake, and then get your right hand onto a sidepull on the west face. Use great compression moves and body positioning to pull out of the roof. Figure out how to get your left hand onto the east face, and then take some epic compression moves up the prow.

Start as for "Icebergs Aren't Real", on the right side of the west face sitting at the base of the dihedral. Use a very low left hand sidepull and a good right hand sidepull a bit higher on the dihedral. Work straight up, staying left of "Icebergs Aren't Real" and trending through small crimps and sidepulls on the face. Top out straight up, where the lip becomes more horizontal. Trending right is V4 and is listed under "Icebergs Aren't Real".

Sit start to the right of "The Perfect Storm" at the base of the right-facing dihedral. I started with my hands matched on the low undercling, but admittedly the problem is better and less scrunchy with your right hand starting about a foot higher on a good sidepull (that may take it down half a grade). Climb up and right along the dihedral, neighboring sidepulls, and crimps to reach a good hold up to the right. Mantel it out.Some nice footwork is required on this one.

Sit start the center of the west face of the boulder on a massive flake. Navigate beautiful, technical moves on extremely thin holds heading up and slightly left to hit an amazing one pad rail at thirteen feet, and top out. If balanced face climbing on quarter pad crimps is your forte, then you've got to get on this one.

Start just right of the tree on the east face on a big undercling/sidepull feature. Figure out how to move up into a huge jug rail, and then cruise it to the top. The easiest method is to make use of a sidepull out to the left.Also, this is the best downclimb for the boulder.

Perhaps the best singular boulder in Central Massachusetts and home to multiple incredible lines, Titanic Boulder is a must do if visiting the Douglas State Forest. There's something here for just about anyone from V1 to V7 and beyond. The king line of Douglas State Forest resides here and climbs the obvious, aesthetic prow feature.If a roof start into an epic compression prow isn't your jam, then check out the slab lover's test piece in "The Perfect Storm," V6.

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