An enthusiastic work crew took great joy in blowing up a massive boulder blocking Highway 12 north of Lytton Monday afternoon.

The rock, estimated to be about two-metres high and two-metres wide, closed the highway in both directions over the weekend. It was so large that it took up an entire lane of the road, completely blocking traffic.

Provincial transportation officials sent a geotechnical team to the site earlier in the day to complete an assessment but the boulder was deemed too large for its equipment to move.

That’s when crews got the go-ahead to bring out the big guns, and use explosives to blast the rock into smaller pieces to remove it.

In a video posted by Transportation BC, a crew member can be heard doing a countdown before the rock is blasted into hundreds of pieces.

"Whoa that was good!" a man yells after the detonation.

A similar sentiment was exclaimed on the Transportation BC Twitter account: “How do you remove a 7ft by 7ft rock out of the way? Make sure it gets ‘Blowed up real good’. (apologies to SCTV)”

The road was reopened after maintenance workers cleared away the debris.