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Bay Area Bouldering, California, USA


Approach time: 5-10 minutes
Season: Year Round
Number of problems: 50
Type of rock: Volcanic
Overview

Some of the best views in the entire Bay Area can be found on Mt. Tam. Near the viewpoint on top of the popular East Peak are some of the best views and a few small cliff-bands with fun 3rd and 4th class scrambling, good top-ropes and a few top ropes and/or boulder problems/solos from 5.0-5.11 and VB-V4. There’s also the fun Camel Pie aka Parking Lot Boulder with a few V0/1-V4/5 problems and a long, pumpy V6/7 traverse next to a big dirt parking lot off the right side of the road on the way up to the East Peak. The Bootjack Boulders are .5 miles east (downhill) from the Bootjack Picnic Area and have about 5-10 problems from V0-V6ish.

The newly discovered and developed Bay View Wall and ATF Boulder and The Lakeview Boulders are all soon to come!!

Notable Bouldering Problems

Alice Eastwood
Alice Eastwood V2R

Bootjack/Intuition Boulders
Intuition V4 stand V4/5 sit, V3/4 left arete, Daves Not Here V2 stand or V6/7 sit, V4/5 traverse

Rock Springs
V2/3 trailside

Parking Lot Rock/Camel Pie
V6/7 traverse and V1 highball center face

Bay View Wall
Scenic Cruise V3 stand V4 sit and Bay View Wall V6 stand {sit V? project!)

East Bloc/ATF Boulder
ATF Traverse V6 and Target Practice V2 stand V3 sit

Lakeview Boulders
Campus Girls aka Procrastination V8 sit V5 stand, Campus Traverse V6 stand, EC Does It V2, Best Damn Arete V1, High Heeled Hookers V2 stand V3 sit, Old Man Card V2 stand V3 sit, Pee Wees Playhouse V7's

Spirits Wall
High Spirits V6/7!

East Peak
Defibrillator V4R, Waldo V2, V3 traverse with a view

West Ridgecrest
small but sorta new with a rad view!?

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Ken Ariza on his classic testpiece "Campus Girls" V8
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