Fun, easy route requiring you to squirm through a hole at the top of the tunnel.

Glory Hole

Classic Monkey

Left Left

Blunt Arete

Right of Crack

Pocket sit start

Monkey Far

The Redirect

Northeast face left

Center Face

Monkey Bar Traverse

Monkey Bar

Monkey Bar Direct Right

Curious George

Monkey Bar Direct

Hyperglide (aka Monkey Pinch)

Monkey Crack

Oompa Loompa

Peter North Pump

Darwin Award

Left

Seam

Tired of falling on the third move of Monkey Bar Direct? Are the swarms of people getting to your head and harshing your mellow? Do you find yourself asking "Is there more to my life?"

 Luckily the answer is YES, and it all starts with an ascent of Darwin Award.

 Sit start on the South/West side of the natural shelter. Traverse up and left using some decent holds and a few heel hooks. Eventually you reach a good sloper, which is about the same time you decide you'd rather be hanging upside-down. So stuff both your feet up inside the crack and just chill out man, you're stressin'. Do several traversing moves while inverted, eventually reaching an OK hand jam and transitioning back upright. Try not to cut feet and pull the finishing move which tops out the leaning slab that creates the shelter. If super psyched, continue up to the top of the Monkey Bar Boulder.

 Several variations of this problem exist changing the difficulty from V1 - V4 depending on how you choose to climb it.

 

Sit down start on the northwest side of the boulder. This is essentially the first problem you see as you get to the Monky Bars boulder. A few powerful moves will take you to a large sidepull jug, where you begin to trend left and up on small holds. The new bouldering guidebook gives this a V6, so that's what I'm going with.

 

Start on the leftmost obvious undercling slot on the arete to the left of Monkey Crack, pull on and climb up and right following the weakness.

Sit start on good incut crimps right on the blunt arete, use the variety of feet in the big heuco. Pull on and make a few powerful pulls on crimps to a casual top out.

To the right of the crack, sit start on (likely) chalked crimps and climb up the crimpy face to better holds to top out.  A fun route with a few powerful pulls on smallish crimps.

Sit start with pockets, climb the face above.

Sds and climb through Classic Monkey until reaching the jug rail. Instead of traversing left, huck a large deadpoint or dyno to a good but somewhat precise jug, top out above. Originally proposed as V10, V9 seems more accurate but don't get caught up in the grade, this is a great climb either way.

Begin as for Monkey Bar Direct (V8), and then make a big cross move left to finish on the very end of Monkey Bar (V2). Beta video can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZxNMx0zE90

 

Sit start at the left side of the northeast face; make crimpy moves to gain the break. Top out above.

Sit start on left-facing flake and go up.  Fun movement with a few powerful moves

SDS on the east side of the boulder and traverse right through the jugs to finish up the crimps of Monkey Bar Direct.

 

Sit start on the left-most jug of the main juggy-cave-thing area. Traverse right on big happy jugs (yay!). At the corner, starting climbing up. Make a big throw from an undercling thingie to a big incut jug out on the arete. Alternately, try a scary feeling-cross off a shallow half-tips pocket. After attaining the incut jug, climb fairly directly up on big holds.

Sit down start off the low rail on the northwest side of the boulder. Move into the initial pocket followed by a big move into the dual pockets far left and finish direct.

Sit start with hands matched on a crimpy sidepull and make a big move to a large flat hold.

Classic moves on steep & solid stone.

 Start on the huge jug at the bottom of the roof on the uphill side of the boulder. Move out to the double pockets and then fire up through positive crimps to an easy topout.

 Some good deadpoint skills come in handy in the 2nd half of the problem, and the crux may feel significantly more difficult for shorter people due to a lack of positive footholds.

 

Originally named "Monkey Pinch" in the Las Vegas Bouldering guidebook, this problem is now listed as "Hyperglide" in Southern Nevada Bouldering II.

 Make your way up to the big undercling starting as low as you deem respectable. Once established under the roof, grab the right hand pinch/sidepull and use one of several left hand crimp options. Crank through the sidepull to a left-hand crimp that may seem miles away. A tall but easy topout follows.

 

Obvious crack with face holds right next to the trail on the southeast side of Monkey Bar Boulder

Start on monkey bars, traverse into the start of monkey bar direct and climb to the top!

Stand start on crimps 3 feet right of 'Left Left' below the obvious weakness.Pull on with high feet and climb the weakness.

Start with a crimp on each side of the seam and move up via another crimp, then top out on good patina.May need to pad stack to reach the right hand hold.

This is probably the most famous boulder at Kraft. There are usually climbers on it, or nearby, if the weather permits climbing. There are numerous problems on this one boulder including Classic Monkey (V5), Monkey Bar Traverse (V6), and Monkey Bar Direct (V9).

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Routes in Monkey Bar Boulder