From Insightful Guide to Bouldering Joe's Valley, by Isaac Caldiero, "Squat start on horizontal edge, traverse right to crimp rail, then climb straight up to slopers at the lip, easy mantle."

Arcade

Tradesque

Damn Jim

Sunscreen

Buoux Dihedral

Thin Ice

Buoux Crack

Gutter Ball

From the East

Speed

Bowling Shoes Left

Bowling Ball

Bowling Shoes

Buoux Problem

Buoux OW

Buoux Arete

From

Insightful Guide to Bouldering Joe's Valley,

by Isaac Caldiero, "Sit start on sidepull jug, climb straight up on rails to a techy mantle." This boulder is about 20 feet in front of Bowling Ball on top of the short hill towards the road. The most obvious line is a sit start on opposing vertical rail jugs with a compression start. Move up the compression moves and find your way up and right towards the juggy shelf and topout. Quite a good boulder that doesn't have much information on it. Regardless, it seems that it still gets traffic!

Climb the crack on the left side of the Buoux boulder using the vertical pockets.  Balancy with an interesting topout.

Stand start with right hand on side pull rail and left hand in shallow pocket.  Climb straight up the face to slopey mantel.

Stand start. Balanced climbing to a tough topout.

The Buoux Dihedral climbs the corner left of Tradesque.  The landing for this problem is flat if you hit either the upper or lower tier  however a fall halfway between from up high could be disastrous.  Climb with care.

Often overlooked, and perhaps with good reason, this problem is actually better than it first appears.  Begin on the face left of Buoux Arete and climb up and left into the dihedral feature.  Pull carefully as you gain height as some of the flakes look and feel like they're ready to melt.

Climb the alluring crack by its left side, using holds on the slab, or make it a bit easier by laybacking or climbing the crack directly. Keep it cool at the topout, the good holds are all there. Classic highball.

Begin with your left hand on a good sidepull and your right on a sloping crimper.  Establish your feet and make one big move up and right to a good edge.  Match the slopey lip and move slightly right to topout.

Not sure if this is an FA but it's worth a go if you've climbed everything else and are waiting for your crew to finish up the Bowling Ball.  Anyone have any info on this: name, grade, etc.?

Sit start on a right side-pull under-cling crimps and a left hand sloper pinch. Figure out how to pull your but off the ground and make moves into the start of the Boux Stand.

On the back side of the Buoux boulder there is an obvious offwidth crack (V0) that splits the boulder.  Speed climbs the slab left of the crack.  Tall, with a committing move near the top, this problem is highball for sure but totally classic.  Move left to top out.

This boulder problem seems to be undocumented, yet the chalk indicates people are at least attempting it. This boulder is about 20 feet in front of Bowling Ball on top of the short hill towards the road. The start is the same as Bowling Ball V4 for the opening compression moves, then goes left to a crack with a couple of decent holds that follow on the arete. Some creativity is required to get over there. Get ready for a heinous, slopey topout (separate from the right variation). Full value boulder for a shorty!

Start standing with hands in pockets and climb straight up.  An SDS can be done to this problem making it closer to V7.

Awesome off-width crack on the opposite side of the Buoux Crack problem.

A little harder, but much shorter than the Buoux Crack.

The crack is flared on one side and provides some unique climbing that's not often seen in Joe's Valley.

Once you get started, you can fit your whole body inside and chicken wing your way up to the top. Gets easier closer to the top.

The rating is rather irrelevant, if you can climb crack, you'll zip up the problem. Otherwise it can easily serve you up a nice slice of humble pie.

This problem is just right of the V3 "Buoux Problem".  Climb the boulder using face and arete holds while keeping your feet left of the crack.

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Routes in Buoux Area