Buttermilk Boulder
Buttermilk Boulder in California has 6 bouldering routes across 6 difficulty grades.
Photo: simonov, CC BY-SA 2.0 (via Flickr)- 6 routes
- V0- – V7
- Bouldering
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Safety Alert - Falling Rocks at Bonita Falls
Agency alert covering San Bernardino National Forest · USFS · San Bernardino National Forest
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Buttermilk Boulder is a bouldering area in the San Jacinto Ranger District of San Bernardino National Forest in California, managed by the Forest Service. It sits among a cluster of climbing areas, with Cracker Boy Area and Campground Crags each about 0.1 mile away and The Summit about 0.2 mile off. Boulder Basin campground is about 0.3 mile away. The area has six bouldering routes, all rated on the V scale. The grades run from V0- to V7, with the median at V3. Buttermilk Face Middle is the V3 route, and Cracker Boy, a V7, was first climbed by Kerwin Klein. Buttermilk Face Left and Buttermilk Face Right sit at V1 and V5. Boulder Basin is the closest place to camp, and Black Mountain (San Bernardino) is about 1.3 miles away. The Nature Trail and Seven Pines hikes are both within about 2 miles.
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