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Arete Left Side - Black Box Boulder 
Arete Right Side - Black Box Boulder 
Black Box Arete left 
Blankety Blank 
Center Start 
Chaos 
Circus Trick 
Crimp Challenge, The 
Dyno for Dollars 
Hidden Crack, The 
Hueco Tranverse 
Kick Start 
La Derecha 
Leftover Lover 
Lip Traverse 
Mr. Trujillo's Big Day 
Mueve se ("Move it" in espanish!) 
Phantom Fighter 
Sand Traverse 
Scoopula 
sloper city 
Slots of Fun 
Super Circus Trick 
Washed Up 

Big Bend Bouldering Area

Submitted By: Andrew Gram on May 12, 2002
Administrators: Andrew Gram, Perin Blanchard
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Description 

Lots of great boulders lie next to the highway under the shadow of Lighthouse and Dolomite Tower. Believe it or not, there are even jugs to pull on if your hands are too shredded to jam. How often do you see that on desert sandstone?


Getting There 

Drive north on River Road from Moab. A very short way past the Big Bend camping area, look for a parking area on the right(east) side of the road. This is the unmarked lot a short distance past the group camping spot. The boulders are obvious from the highway - look for the bright white chalk.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Big Bend Bouldering Area:
Center Start   V1     Boulder   
Slots of Fun   V2     Boulder   
Arete Right Side - Black Box Boulder   V3     Boulder   
Arete Left Side - Black Box Boulder   V3     Boulder   
Circus Trick   V4     Boulder   
sloper city   V8     Boulder, 15 feet   
Phantom Fighter   V11     Boulder   
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Featured Route For Big Bend Bouldering Area
The Circus Trick, shot from above, by Noah Bigwood Big Bend Rating: V3 standing/ V4 sitting Real world: add a V or two

Circus Trick V4  UT : Moab Area : ... : Big Bend Bouldering Area
This is the arete just in sight at the right edge of the photo below, on the biggest boulder in Big Bend. Cool moves on decent holds, especially from the sit start, lead to a hard throw to a bad hold, and another hard throw to the huge jug at the lip. Very, very cool....[more]   Browse More Classics in UT


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Big Bend, Moab

Big Bend, Moab

Dakota working on something hard at Big Bend.

Dakota working on something hard at Big Bend.

my buddy bouldering at flat top<br />

my buddy bouldering at flat top


Does anyone know the name of this rock and the climb on the right?

Does anyone know the name of this rock and the cli...

Big Bend My Friend

Big Bend My Friend

More shots from big bend.

More shots from big bend.

Charles Vernon pullin' down.

Charles Vernon pullin' down.

Starting under the roof on Block Top Boulder...

Starting under the roof on Block Top Boulder...

Guy climbing in the big bend area.  Not sure what boulder or problem.

Guy climbing in the big bend area. Not sure what ...

Kris on unknown problem, block box boulder???

Kris on unknown problem, block box boulder???

Big Bend.

Big Bend.


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By Steven Senger
Jun 7, 2002

This area is fun. One time I came to Moab and spent an entire week in this area alone. There's a silly chimney traverse thing, a couple of crack deals, and a bunch of huecos! I still can't stick that last dyno on Circus Trick... The lonely boulder (a quarter mile down the road towards Moab and back down a short truck trail) has some super-sweet problems on it.

By Anonymous Coward
Nov 9, 2002

Anybody know about the hard problems at Big Bend? I think Phantom Fighter-sit is the Klem problem just to the right of circus trick. But where is Hell Belly? Any other hard problems? Moab has a ton of undeveloped hard problems-anyone have recomendations for stuff off the beaten path?

By Anonymous Coward
Mar 18, 2003

Just to the left of Chaos(V8), is a steep pinch problem with terrible heel scums(V11).

By Dave Jackson
Mar 11, 2006

This is the best place to boulder in the world! What an idillic setting, and the quantity of problems is remarkable! Even the sandstone is solid!! I spent an entire afternoon here and that wasn't even enough time to scratch the surface.

By EricW
From: Sandy, Ut
Feb 27, 2008

This place is great for a few days. Tent camping is a across the street. Lots of parking here as well. I think the problems are hard for the grade.Zero approach! Gets sun all day.