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Silly Patch Boulders

6-pad bouldering routes at Silly Patch in Nevada, 3 difficulty grades.

Photo: Sean Williams 297, CC BY 2.0 (via Flickr)

6 routes

V0 – V3

Bouldering

Best time to visit Silly Patch Boulders

Best months: February–May and October–November. Best months have typical highs of 55–85 °F, lows of 30 °F or warmer (32 °F where the station doesn't record snow), at most one snowy day and no more than 12 wet days.

Jan
53° / 32°
4 wet
Feb
56° / 35°
5 wet
Mar
64° / 41°
4 wet
Apr
70° / 47°
2 wet
May
80° / 56°
1 wet
Jun
90° / 66°
1 wet
Jul
95° / 73°
2 wet
Aug
94° / 72°
2 wet
Sep
87° / 62°
2 wet
Oct
75° / 50°
2 wet
Nov
62° / 38°
2 wet
Dec
52° / 31°
3 wet

Typical high / low (°F) and days with rain or snow, 1991–2020. Measured at Red Rock Canyon - Spg Mt Rch S, NV, 2.1 mi away at 3,780 ft. The station sits about 700 ft lower than this place, so expect it a little cooler here. This station doesn't record snowfall. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.

Silly Patch Boulders is a bouldering area in Nevada's Rainbow Mountain Wilderness, within the Red Rock/Sloan Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management. The climbing sits inside designated wilderness, on land managed by the BLM. The bouldering here is all about short, craggy problems. Six routes are listed, and they run from V0 to V3 on the V scale. Silly Squat is the easiest at V0, and Croissant Roll, Dirty Panty Blues and Genghis Khan is My Dad are the hardest at V3. The names alone make this a destination worth knowing. Spring and fall are the most comfortable times to visit. Typical averages from a nearby weather station show May highs around 80°F and October highs around 75°F, while July averages climb to about 95°F. Several other bouldering areas and hikes lie close by. Aeolian Wall and Lower East Side are both about 0.3 miles away, and Knoll is a hike roughly half a mile off. Red Rock Canyon Campground, about 6 miles away, is the closest place to camp.