Crags
Joshua Tree
United States guidebook sector.
Sector guide
Joshua Tree Bouldering / Hidden Valley Area Bouldering
Browse 402 climbs in this Joshua Tree sector, with practical notes for the approach, base, and suitability.
climbs
402
Every climb in this sector is listed below.
Grade spread
A quick feel for the sector
Every climb is listed below, easiest first.
Grade system shown: V-scale
VB
77
V0
76
V1
54
V2
59
V3
45
V4
42
V5
18
V6
16
V7
4
V8
3
V9
2
V10
2
V11
2
Route list
Every climb in Joshua Tree Bouldering / Hidden Valley Area Bouldering
Sorted from easiest to hardest.
| Route | Grade | Stars | Ascents |
|---|---|---|---|
| At Your Cervix | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Big Lizard in my Backyard | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Ceres | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Chunkers | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Deadwood Arete | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Descent Route | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Descent Route | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Descent Route | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Descent Route | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Descent Route | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Desert Rat Crack | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Dollop | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Down with the Ship | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Fat Flake | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Flakey Boulder Right | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Golden Monkey | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Heart-On | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Hershey Kiss Off | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Hooker on Crack | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Hop Devil | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Hot and Juicy | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Intersection Mantle | V-easy | – | 0 |
| JBMF Descent Route | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Juno | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Knuckle Cracker | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Manx | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Moonglow | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Morsel | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Mr. H | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Nebula | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Northeast Corner | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Northwest Arete | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Paddler | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Patina Slab | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Phallus | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Pinhead Traverse | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Pioneer | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Pothole Arete | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Pothole Mantel 2 | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Pothole Problem 2 | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Pothole Slab | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Pothole Traverse | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Power of the Rock Rat | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Problem A | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Problem C | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Problem D | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Scoops | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Scudder Slab B | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Snack | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Snack Attack | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Snack Crackle Pop | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Snack Trap | V-easy | – | 0 |
| South Face | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Split Lip | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Storm King | V-easy | – | 0 |
| The Blazed Trail | V-easy | – | 0 |
| The Egg Timer | V-easy | – | 0 |
| The Melon Baller | V-easy | – | 0 |
| The Womb | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Tidbit | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Turnbuckle Arete | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Turnbuckle Descent | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Turnbuckle Slab | V-easy | – | 0 |
| unknown | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Unnamed | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Unnamed | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Unnamed .6 | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Unnamed .7 | V-easy | – | 0 |
| V for Victory | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Van Gogh's Ear | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Voices Arete | V-easy | – | 0 |
| West Face | V-easy | – | 0 |
| West Face | V-easy | – | 0 |
| West Face - Right | V-easy | – | 0 |
| West Face Arete | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Without a Trace | V-easy | – | 0 |
| Yacumama | V-easy | – | 0 |
| False Up 20 | V0- | – | 0 |
| Hop Wallop | V0- | – | 0 |
| Largotot | V0- | – | 0 |
| Little Big Horn | V0- | – | 0 |
| Matatoro | V0- | – | 0 |
| Mr. Hyde | V0- | – | 0 |
| Penny Pincher | V0- | – | 0 |
| Right Arete | V0- | – | 0 |
| Right Arete | V0- | – | 0 |
| Roasty Toasty | V0- | – | 0 |
| Sprinting Jew | V0- | – | 0 |
| Sun Dance | V0- | – | 0 |
| Sweet Surprise | V0- | – | 0 |
| The Clutch | V0- | – | 0 |
| Thingamajig | V0- | – | 0 |
| Triangle Boulder South Face | V0- | – | 0 |
| Trout Chow | V0- | – | 0 |
| West Arete | V0- | – | 0 |
| Augie Problem | V0 | – | 0 |
| Bedrock Arete | V0 | – | 0 |
| Brown Sugar | V0 | – | 0 |
| Campfire Circle Mantle | V0 | – | 0 |
| Celebration of the Lizard | V0 | – | 0 |
| Choss Supreme | V0 | – | 0 |
| Dashed on the Rocks | V0 | – | 0 |
| Dino's Egg | V0 | – | 0 |
| Discount Dyno | V0 | – | 0 |
| Easter Bunny Back Scraper | V0 | – | 0 |
| Flintlock Dyno | V0 | – | 0 |
| Grunge | V0 | – | 0 |
| Heel Hooker | V0 | – | 0 |
| Hensel Face | V0 | – | 0 |
| Hobbit Hole Offwidth | V0 | – | 0 |
| Hostess | V0 | – | 0 |
| Interceptor | V0 | – | 0 |
| Interceptor 2 | V0 | – | 0 |
| Intersection Boulder, Left | V0 | – | 0 |
| Left Nixon Crack | V0 | – | 0 |
| Nitwit | V0 | – | 0 |
| Pig F**ker Direct | V0 | – | 0 |
| Pigskin | V0 | – | 0 |
| Placebo | V0 | – | 0 |
| Platypus | V0 | – | 0 |
| Pothole Mantel #1 | V0 | – | 0 |
| Pothole Problem 1 | V0 | – | 0 |
| Problem B | V0 | – | 0 |
| Problem E | V0 | – | 0 |
| Retro | V0 | – | 0 |
| Scudder Slab A | V0 | – | 0 |
| Shocked Quartz | V0 | – | 0 |
| Sign Problem | V0 | – | 0 |
| Stand Up for Your Rights | V0 | – | 0 |
| Unnamed | V0 | – | 0 |
| Unnamed V0 | V0 | – | 0 |
| Unnamed V0 | V0 | – | 0 |
| [Redacted] | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Baltic Thunder | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Casaba | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Cole Dihedral | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Flakey Boulder Center | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Foil Affection | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Heat Stroke | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Hensel Arete | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Holenoid (aka The Grundle from Down Under) | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Medicine Man | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Mukatsuku | V0-1 | – | 0 |
| Night Crawler | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Old Triangle Classic | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Outback Crack | V0-1 | – | 0 |
| Pig F**ker | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Problem A | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Right Nixon Crack | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Semi-Precious (aka Poorman's Stem Gem) | V0+ | – | 0 |
| South Face | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Weenie Arete | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Zippy the Pinhead | V0+ | – | 0 |
| Brief Squeeze | V1- | – | 0 |
| Classic Curl | V1- | – | 0 |
| Holenoid Right Side | V1- | – | 0 |
| Unnamed V1 | V1- | – | 0 |
| Anaconda Wink | V1 | – | 0 |
| Belly Roll | V1 | – | 0 |
| Blatant Disregard for Human Safety | V1 | – | 0 |
| Border Patrol | V1 | – | 0 |
| Chuckawalla | V1 | – | 0 |
| Death Series | V1 | – | 0 |
| Don't Mess with Texas | V1 | – | 0 |
| Dynamo Hum | V1 | – | 0 |
| Enter the Melon | V1 | – | 0 |
| False Blockhead | V1 | – | 0 |
| False Hueco | V1 | – | 0 |
| Fishbait | V1 | – | 0 |
| Gizmo | V1 | – | 0 |
| Hershey Kiss South Arete | V1 | – | 0 |
| Hershey Kiss West Arete | V1 | – | 0 |
| Intersection Traverse | V1 | – | 0 |
| Lapse of Logic | V1 | – | 0 |
| Mantel of Authority | V1 | – | 0 |
| Melonizer | V1 | – | 0 |
| Mini-Melon | V1 | – | 0 |
| Mister E | V1 | – | 0 |
| Morning Glory | V1 | – | 0 |
| Pacifier | V1 | – | 0 |
| Pocket Change | V1 | – | 0 |
| Poorman's Railer | V1 | – | 0 |
| Ribtickler | V1 | – | 0 |
| Scissorlock | V1 | – | 0 |
| Scudder Slab C | V1 | – | 0 |
| Scuttlebutt | V1 | – | 0 |
| Sloperfest | V1 | – | 0 |
| Snack in the Box | V1 | – | 0 |
| Thingamajump | V1 | – | 0 |
| Tilt-o-Meter Center | V1 | – | 0 |
| Tilt-O-Meter Left | V1 | – | 0 |
| Tilt-o-Meter Traverse | V1 | – | 0 |
| Turtle Face, Left | V1 | – | 0 |
| Unnamed | V1 | – | 0 |
| War Drum | V1 | – | 0 |
| Women and Children First | V1 | – | 0 |
| X Cracks | V1 | – | 0 |
| Yardarm | V1 | – | 0 |
| Block Party | V2- | – | 0 |
| Buckskin | V1+ | – | 0 |
| Chuckawalla Roast | V1+ | – | 0 |
| Fling | V2- | – | 0 |
| Gambit | V1+ | – | 0 |
| Gizmodo | V1+ | – | 0 |
| Hidden Problem | V2- | – | 0 |
| Split End Left | V1+ | – | 0 |
| Sprinting Atheist | V1-2 | – | 0 |
| Tilt-o-Meter Right | V1+ | – | 0 |
| Turnbuckle | V1+ | – | 0 |
| Upsidedown Pineapple | V1+ | – | 0 |
| Bard's Ankle | V2 | – | 0 |
| Black Pea | V2 | – | 0 |
| Browning Slab | V2 | – | 0 |
| Bulgemaster | V2 | – | 0 |
| Burning Sensation | V2 | – | 0 |
| Chalk Party | V2 | – | 0 |
| Cole Arete | V2 | – | 0 |
| Digitations | V2 | – | 0 |
| Dish Mantel | V2 | – | 0 |
| El Dave | V2 | – | 0 |
| Face Off | V2 | – | 0 |
| False Hueco Traverse | V2 | – | 0 |
| Hensel Face | V2 | – | 0 |
| IDC Problem | V2 | – | 0 |
| Intersection Boulder, Center | V2 | – | 0 |
| J.B. Supreme | V2 | – | 0 |
| Jump Chump | V2 | – | 0 |
| Laura Scudder | V2 | – | 0 |
| Lip Service | V2 | – | 0 |
| Mantle of the New Adonis | V2 | – | 0 |
| Night Train | V2 | – | 0 |
| Old Horizontal | V2 | – | 0 |
| Patina | V2 | – | 0 |
| Pick your poison | V2 | – | 0 |
| Pony Stampede | V2 | – | 0 |
| Poorman's Sidewinder | V2 | – | 0 |
| Scoop Problem | V2 | – | 0 |
| Sit Down Flake | V2 | – | 0 |
| Slick Willie | V2 | – | 0 |
| Soft Pretzel | V2 | – | 0 |
| The Boxer Problem | V2 | – | 0 |
| The Mutant | V2 | – | 0 |
| There Will Be Piss | V2 | – | 0 |
| Trailblazer | V2 | – | 0 |
| Turboflange | V2 | – | 0 |
| Turtle Face Center | V2 | – | 0 |
| Twisted Sister | V2 | – | 0 |
| Ultraviolet | V2 | – | 0 |
| Unnamed | V2 | – | 0 |
| Unnamed | V2 | – | 0 |
| Varsity Crank | V2 | – | 0 |
| Voyager | V2 | – | 0 |
| Weasel World | V2 | – | 0 |
| Weenie Roast | V2 | – | 0 |
| Weenie Traverse | V2 | – | 0 |
| White Rastafarian | V2 | – | 0 |
| Wrangler | V2 | – | 0 |
| Xylophone | V2 | – | 0 |
| Yawning Flare | V2 | – | 0 |
| Zinger | V2 | – | 0 |
| Black Velvet | V2-3 | – | 0 |
| Flake Direct | V2+ | – | 0 |
| Out of Touch | V2+ | – | 0 |
| Slugs of War | V2+ | – | 0 |
| Turnbuckle Left Arete | V2-3 | – | 0 |
| West Face - Left sit | V2+ | – | 0 |
| Act of Contrition | V3 | – | 0 |
| Caveman Finish | V3 | – | 0 |
| Chollahoy | V3 | – | 0 |
| Classic Melon | V3 | – | 0 |
| Crack of Noon | V3 | – | 0 |
| Crankcase | V3 | – | 0 |
| Elegant Melon (aka Coke Machine) | V3 | – | 0 |
| False Grit | V3 | – | 0 |
| Fist Full of Walnuts | V3 | – | 0 |
| King Smear (Friction Addiction) | V3 | – | 0 |
| La Migra | V3 | – | 0 |
| Lechlinski Corner | V3 | – | 0 |
| Lemon | V3 | – | 0 |
| Little Sister | V3 | – | 0 |
| Meat Substitute | V3 | – | 0 |
| Not So Thin Lizzie | V3 | – | 0 |
| Optigrip | V3 | – | 0 |
| Orbiter | V3 | – | 0 |
| Pepboys Problem | V3 | – | 0 |
| Pocket Rocket | V3 | – | 0 |
| Powell Face | V3 | – | 0 |
| Shipwreck | V3 | – | 0 |
| Showstopper | V3 | – | 0 |
| Sitting Bull Direct | V3 | – | 0 |
| Slabmaster | V3 | – | 0 |
| Slam Dunk | V3 | – | 0 |
| Slap Prow | V3 | – | 0 |
| Sorta High | V3 | – | 0 |
| Southbound Pachyderm | V3 | – | 0 |
| Stoney Point Problem (aka Bambam) | V3 | – | 0 |
| The Button High | V3 | – | 0 |
| The Easy Way | V3 | – | 0 |
| The Funktion | V3 | – | 0 |
| The Palmist | V3 | – | 0 |
| True Grit | V3 | – | 0 |
| Two Stroke | V3 | – | 0 |
| Undertow | V3 | – | 0 |
| Unnamed Problem | V3 | – | 0 |
| Weasel World (Left) | V3 | – | 0 |
| Western Roll | V3 | – | 0 |
| Winger | V3 | – | 0 |
| Yabba Dabba Don't | V3 | – | 0 |
| Yabo Roof | V3 | – | 0 |
| Crystal Arete | V3+ | – | 0 |
| In Through The Outdoor | V3+ | – | 0 |
| Sitting Bull | V4- | – | 0 |
| The Smoke Detector | V4- | – | 0 |
| Torquemeister | V4- | – | 0 |
| Anti-hueco | V4 | – | 0 |
| Blood Mantel | V4 | – | 0 |
| Browning Arete | V4 | – | 0 |
| Bushmaster | V4 | – | 0 |
| Chip Flakey | V4 | – | 0 |
| Double Orifice | V4 | – | 0 |
| Evan's Problem | V4 | – | 0 |
| Gripped and Grunged | V4 | – | 0 |
| How's Your Mama? | V4 | – | 0 |
| How's Your Papa? | V4 | – | 0 |
| Intersection Boulder, Right | V4 | – | 0 |
| Ladies Night | V4 | – | 0 |
| Largo Dyno | V4 | – | 0 |
| Little Chucky | V4 | – | 0 |
| Medium Chuckie | V4 | – | 0 |
| Monkey Chow | V4 | – | 0 |
| Mumbles Mumblephone | V4 | – | 0 |
| Neoflange | V4 | – | 0 |
| Nicopress | V4 | – | 0 |
| Nitwitsit | V4 | – | 0 |
| Off Camber | V4 | – | 0 |
| One Man Tribe | V4 | – | 0 |
| Peabrain | V4 | – | 0 |
| Pigpen | V4 | – | 0 |
| Pistol Whipped | V4 | – | 0 |
| Pitch Two | V4 | – | 0 |
| Problem B | V4 | – | 0 |
| Roof Romp | V4 | – | 0 |
| Saturday Night Live | V4 | – | 0 |
| Scorpion Traverse | V4 | – | 0 |
| Shite Rail | V4 | – | 0 |
| Shotgun Wedding | V4 | – | 0 |
| Stem Gem | V4 | – | 0 |
| The Nostril | V4 | – | 0 |
| The Reider Problem | V4 | – | 0 |
| Unnamed v4 | V4 | – | 0 |
| False Tidal Wave | V4-5 | – | 0 |
| Problem A | V4+ | – | 0 |
| Reverse Romp | V4+ | – | 0 |
| Amoeba | V5 | – | 0 |
| Basketball Jump | V5 | – | 0 |
| Black Streak Dyno | V5 | – | 0 |
| False Blockhead Sit Start | V5 | – | 0 |
| Feel the Grit | V5 | – | 0 |
| Fire' or Retire' | V5 | – | 0 |
| How's Your Granny? | V5 | – | 0 |
| JBMFP | V5 | – | 0 |
| Kirkatron | V5 | – | 0 |
| Moongerms | V5 | – | 0 |
| Mystical Vibrations | V5 | – | 0 |
| Scorpion Roof Direct | V5 | – | 0 |
| So High | V5 | – | 0 |
| Stem Gem Mantle | V5 | – | 0 |
| The Terminator | V5 | – | 0 |
| Unnamed V5 | V5 | – | 0 |
| Watergate Scandal | V5 | – | 0 |
| Western Roll (sit) | V5 | – | 0 |
| Animal | V6 | – | 0 |
| Border Patrol (Yabo) | V6 | – | 0 |
| Caveman (V6 Variation) | V6 | – | 0 |
| Ceasar's Palace | V6 | – | 0 |
| Chuckawalla 'Yabo' Start | V6 | – | 0 |
| Entrance Problem | V6 | – | 0 |
| Roof Romp Direct | V6 | – | 0 |
| Scatterbrain | V6 | – | 0 |
| Speed of Leather | V6 | – | 0 |
| The Hard Way | V6 | – | 0 |
| Triangle Face Center | V6 | – | 0 |
| Unnamed V6 | V6 | – | 0 |
| Viragoron Variation | V6 | – | 0 |
| Yabba Dabba Do | V6 | – | 0 |
| Yabo Roof Traverse | V6 | – | 0 |
| Caveman | V7- | – | 0 |
| Hey Ladies V6/7 | V6-7 | – | 0 |
| Mighty Dog | V7 | – | 0 |
| Orange Julius | V7 | – | 0 |
| Trance | V7 | – | 0 |
| Powerband West | V8 | – | 0 |
| The Easiest Yogi Eliminate Variation | V8 | – | 0 |
| Thin Lizzie | V8 | – | 0 |
| Bittersweet | V9 | – | 0 |
| Relic | V9 | – | 0 |
| Caveman Yabo | V10- | – | 0 |
| Tidal Wave | V10 | – | 0 |
| So High (sit) | V11 | – | 0 |
| Youth Body Explosion (aka Lamprecht Problem) | V11 | – | 0 |
| Betty Jo Yablonksi | – | – | 0 |
| Pinhead | – | – | 0 |
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