Start standing on right arête; traverse left using the face holds and avoiding the spine

Pot Hole

Straight-edge

Ground Clearance

Carver Classic

Mona Lisa

Sensei

Softboy

Classic Overhang

Triangle Face

Virtues Traverse

Cause of Death

Number Three A

Right Heel Man

Warmup Boulder Right

Cedar project

Rose Colored Glasses

Cedar Arête

Education

Haiku

Guard Rail

Sergeant Joe Friday

Higher Education

Left Arete

Jugs

Angry Squirrel

Turn Signal

Virgin Connie Swail

Honey Bear Hookah

Cedar Slab

Jaws of Death

Go Again

Warmup Boulder Left

Button Hole

Trask

Optimus Prime

Intruder

Rally On Traverse

Red Ant Left

Maintenance Men

T.I.A.

Hoik

The Colombian

Pep Streebeck

Funky As All Get Out

Classic Face

Cedar direct

Flying Squirrel

Wrecker Anchor

Eastside intro

Naughty Karate

Coitus Interruptus

Some random V6

Tim's Face

Universal Head

Southpaw

Barfly Betty

Red Ant Stand

Emil Muzz

Bloody Apron

Sit-start on small rock next to the boulder with right hand on undercling then moves up and left to finish.

Standing start to Classic Overhang problem. Fun movement with a nice jug and throw to the top.

SDS on the two crimps, work straight up on better holds and mantle to the top.  Start is the most difficult move.

Another Carver Low Ball! Start inside the obvious cave on a chalked jug and an edge on the lip of the cave. Heals will be necessary to pull of the ground. Pull up to the lip and do a heinously awkward top-out. Body-smears optional. Top out at whopping 6 feet.

Start on the best hold in the middle of the face and head up. Powerful moves on delicate feet. Fun one. 

Direct harder finish to naughty karate. 

Starts with an inverted sit start in the cave of Carver classic. Jam your feet into the crack above and transition from the invert up and through the crack. Sequence climbs crack direct.

 Please provide input on the grade - I've indicated V2+, but this was after refining the beta. This may change depending on community consensus. Onsight this could feel harder.

The boulder just below the cliff at the top of the trail.  Sit start the overhanging face and mantle the top. Smaller holds down low lead to good holds higher up and an exciting final move.

Beautiful triangle boulder just below Angular Motion. Start sitting on two incuts, big move right to a pinch, awkward move left to a sloper, dyno to the top. This is my favorite problem in the world. Literally. If you plopped this boulder down in the middle of Yosemite, it would still be a mega classic. Do yourself a favor and get on this problem.

The 2011 Carver Bouldering Guide calls this "Perhaps the best problem at Carver." I'm sure that's debatable, but this is definitely a proud line.

 Start standing at the low point of the boulder with a left-hand pinch and a right-hand crimp. Hike your feet up and fire for the lip. I thought this would be the crux. I was wrong.

 After a powerful move using an undercling-flake thing (this might be the crux), finish with a series of long, powerful moves between evenly-spaced slopers on the lip/arete (this too might be the crux). Finish with a committing top-out at the boulder's apex (definitely the mental crux).

 The upper moves are the standard finish to a number of harder problems on this boulder. I'm sure they feel casual once you've dialed them in. I chose to onsight this rig while solo bouldering and found myself definitely wishing I had a spotter.

Start matched on a knobbly waist high hold on the lip. Move left and up until you can reach the good flake directly next to the arete. Finish straight up.  

  Do not use the enticing flake jug straight above the start hold, as this decreases the difficulty substantially (and is another climb!).

This problem didn't make it in the original guidebook, but was later mentioned in a blogpost as problem #3a. That description had the SDS on the crimps in the middle, but we've enjoyed traversing over from the flake holds (as pictured), and climbing up the slab. The arete is off for this problem.

Sit down start, with the left side pull and right crimp.  Reasonable bump with the right hand then straight to the top arete and mantle out.  Excellent warm up problem in the shadow of the imposing Yosemite Boulder!

Sit start with hands on lower crack. Climb up the blocky middle of the face.

Sit start on jug, do Savage moves while trying not too dab.

Low start to Universal Head. Starts compressed with a low left hand on the juggy sidepull and a right hand on the flat face. Multitude of betas.Was originally put up as a V10 but consensus seems to average out at V9 nowadays. Climb it and decide for yourself!

SDS on the Cedar Slab problem then move left onto the arête holds and top out on the corner. 

Start standing, left hand undercling flake, right hand sloping edge. Move up to the arete and top out at the center. Same arete finish as Higher Education.

Sit start and face climb on the edges and side pulls above the large rocks in the landing, finishing on the juggy rails to the left.

Start on the lowest part of the arete, hand traverse along the arete on obvious big holds to the top out.  Easy but fun!

Climb the Intruder problem up to the prow. Round the corner and connect with the Education problem to finish on the face. Awesome combo of routes with fun compression in the middle!

Sit down start, move along arete to pinnacle

The rail of positive holds heading right, but mantle half way to the top.  Classic!

An extension to Flying Squirrel, this climb traverses the entirety of the Squirrel Boulder.  

  Start matched on the jug undercling on the far right of the wall, traverse left into Flying Squirrel with difficulty, using whichever crimps you prefer.

Sit start on the obvious rail to the right near the upward sloping boulder.  Head left on the crimpy sidepulls and slopers to finish on the dirty slab.

SDS with left hand on arete, right hand down on the face on a sidepull/undercling thing with a right heel hook directly under the hand and go to the crimper flake in the middle of the face. from there match and throw to the lip up and right to finish up on barfly betty

Move up the stab on good holds avoiding any moss or dirt

Start matched in the sharp pod jug on the left side of the short overhang. You'll know it when you see it.  

  Figure your way to the right, and finish as for Cause of Death using the flake holds directly next to the arete. The big flake jug way off right on the slab is off, fyi.

Sit start on the obvious rail on the boulder to the left of Carver Classic. Go up and left on the nice jugs to top out.

Work your way up the flake system on the left.

Guidebook doesn't specify the SDS, but it makes it much more fun, if stiff, for a V2. Stand start in the dish seems like V0.

Climbs the center of the imposing Columbia Boulder. This is perhaps my favorite climb at Carver due to its interesting sequence through a series of ledges leading to a long reach to the top. I would not recommend biffing it up there, the fall would likely be pretty nasty.

Campus from small edges to bigger edges and ledges. Classic!!

SDS from the lowest point of the boulder. Start on positive side pull climbing left to the rails. Pop up to the slab and trust the feet to the top. Also the start for Higher Education.

Same start as Maintenance Men. Move up to arete and then traverse right around the prow to mantle/ top out

Start as for “East Side intro” but finish up red Ant instead 

Sit down start moving straight up to top out

Sit Start on a couple good edges. Stand up and head up and left towards a juggy topout. Utilize an obviously chalked pinch and figure out a good sequence. A bit reachy.

Start sitting in the overhang with a left hand sidepull and right hand edge. Figure out how to get out of the hole and up to the lip. Heck, the lip isn't even that far away, how hard could it be?  

  Hard.

The hardest line on the boulder, the Columbian combines the cruxes of Jaws of Death and Bloody Apron. Start as for Jaws, matched in the sharp pod jug, pounce out to the arete and then finish straight up using the poor arete holds and whatever left hand hold that strikes your fancy.

Sit start on the obvious rail and work right on the jugs near the lip.  Get to the top of the sloping right arete, stand up onto the slab and finish a few more easy moves. 

  Shares the same start as Virgin Connie Swail.

Start Matched on the knobbly waist high lip hold. Climb left a few moves and then struggle your way to the good flake jug straight above the start hold.

V1 start from the level ground, maybe V0 if you start high on the sloped boulder. Reachy moves from positive jug to positive jug with big feet. Mantle top out with decent hands.

Sit start on jug as for cedar project/southpaw but climb up past the glued on crimps to the top 

Start matched on the slopey ledge on the blunt left corner of the large face just uphill from Carver Classic. Traverse left and then up to a large blocky hold. Top out.  

  Uses a nice mix of slopes and crimps. Climbs really well!

Start low at the base of the arete with a nice left hand hold and low right undercling. Head straight up, using poor left hand face holds and the arete for your right.  

Start on rail, do an insanely hard move to the obvious crimp and traverse left. Really?!

Start on two obvious holds, traverse left and angle up and right into the V3 Arete.

Originally in the guidebook as a V2, felt more like a moderate V1 to us. Starts on left edge and right undercling. The line we found seemed to go up and left, but perhaps there was another harder line that went right. Top out is a little cruxy and landing area is pretty uneven, so I'd recommend scoping it out up there before you head up.

Start with left hand sloper Arete and right hand semi sharp crimp. Pull on and latch the crimp. From here use the jugs and top out.

Start on the "education" boulder, next to the stump boulders. On the south face, there are two low crimps. Make an awkward move right to a supposedly drilled pocket and up to the rail and top out. Pretty cool movement and a long problem for Carver.

Posting this on MP cause it's a great route that more people should hop on. Starts on a fairly obvious positive left hand hold and the base of the right arete. A multitude of different betas are possible. Original start holds are circled for convenience.

Direct finish to cedar project. Doesn't seem much harder. Cool Slopers.

Start on the juggy flake on the right side of the overhang. Bump up to the lip and pull yourselves up on side pulls. Short and sweet!

Standing start. Use good edges to make your way up the face of the Red Ant boulder.

Same start as Virgin Connie Swail (SDS on rail), but climb up and to the right above the slanted rock to finish on the right hand arete.

Start matched on the waist high knobbly lip sloper, as for Cause of Death. Climb the beginning of Cause of Death, but transition to the left. Use the nasty slopey arete and whatever left hand holds you fancy to top out.  

  Climbs well, but man this is hard.  

The Main Forest comprises everything between the parking lot and the cliffs above.

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