When you're ready for a break from shredding your hands and shoes on slabby boulder problems, hop on Big Arch, where you can shred your hands and shoes on crack climbing.  Big Arch (and it's harder companion piece, Pine Tree Crack) are probably the tallest lines at Boat Rock and can be led or toproped. 

  Starting in the big vertical crack, jam your way up the crack until it begins to arch to the right.  Traverse across the thinning crack until you reach the slot at the top of Pine Tree Crack.  Finish to the top or lower from here if you're on toprope.

Big Arch

Pine Tree Crack

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Sharp and sustained hand-finger crack that follows up a pine tree. Stemming on the tree is off. Beware the dog.

This route climbs the start of Pine Tree Crack to the horizontal before the bulge. Instead of continuing up traverse right on the horizontal and into the squeeze. I think this route is more challenging than pine tree crack which is listed as 11+ on this website but I don’t find think it’s difficult enough to merit that grade. I asked a bunch of the old boat rockers if anyone had done this line before and no one has heard of it receiving a proper ascent. I am going to leave the FA section as unknown as it seems like a logical line that would have been climbed but I have given it a name. I know a couple other guys have climbed it since my ascent 9 years ago.

Tall backside of Easy Crack boulder, facing the brick house next to the property.

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Routes in House Crack Area