Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Using a bomb in the boomerang it's possible to boost onto a broken part of the Snowpeak Ruins courtyard wall, skipping the long cannonball puzzle.
Discovered by pokemongenius: youtu.be/b4UxnkcNgO0
Zeldaspeedruns: zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/dungeon/snowpeak-ruins#bomb-boost-to-boss-key-room-wiiglitchless

Gamecube demonstration: youtu.be/psCiv-A8BKo
This saves about 1:55 for Glitchless (Bug-Limit), and Wii categories that complete the dungeon (less in 100% due to different routing).

Positioning and exact direction for the boomerang throw aren't that precise, the important part is timing and aiming the jump and the jumpslash.

- Stand with Link's right foot near a black line on the ground, and place a bomb
- Aim the boomerang up a bit, roughly around the snow on the opposite roof
- Turn, and wait a bit before jumping. The green leaves disappearing is a nice cue.
- Jump as parallel to the wall as possible, from the very far corner. A roll just before is either necessary, or much easier (I've never gotten it without a roll to jump). It's quite hard to get a well angled jump, and I honestly don't have a lot of advice for it other than practice and turning at the last moment. It's very important to jump from the very corner with an angle almost perfectly parallel to the wall to get the maximum distance. Jumping in towards the wall doesn't quite go far enough, and jumping outward won't allow the bomb to boost you far enough back in.
- Jumpslash as you start to descend from your jump

If timed correctly you can barely make it up to the next ledge.
If the bomb boosts you out from the wall rather than in, you may have not been parallel with the wall, or jumped too late so the bomb hits you into the wall and back out.
The timing and angle of the jump are the most important elements to this trick.

Once up, hide in the corner and wait for the freezard to stop breathing ice, then kill it with the Ball & Chain. It's possible but difficult to kill it without being frozen: youtu.be/G201km_s7rA
Then aim and jump towards the ladder.

It's also possible to skip killing the freezard by bomb boosting onto the small ledge on the opposite wall (saving 11s) however this is more difficult and causes a glitched cutscene after the big key: youtu.be/NcFUmTo4LZk. Killing the freezard then bomb boosting is ~5s slower than just climbing the ladder.

Due to the difficulty of this trick, it is highly recommended to B&C the ice to expose the clawshot target so you can clawshot back up should you fail. Each retry loses ~20s if you fall and clawshot back up. ~8s if you simply bonk on the wall and stay up there.
Due to it's difficulty, I really wouldn't recommend doing this unless you're certain you're consistent enough to save time. The route for Wii/Glitchless without this bomb boost can be seen in this glitchless IL by Draconif: youtu.be/FFWRlB2qt6c

When doing this trick the route would differ from this point: youtu.be/FFWRlB2qt6c?t=314 where you'd just ignore the freezards, go outside and perform the bomb boost.
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