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1. Bring your climbing shoes.

If you're accustomed to climbing barefoot, you don't own a pair of climbing shoes, or you just came across some beach boulders without having planned for it, then by all means boulder barefoot. Barefoot bouldering is better than no bouldering. But really, even if you have the world's stickiest calluses (eew), climbing shoes are still going to improve your foot grip. So bring 'em.

2. Bring water.

Exerting yourself in the sun for extended periods of time without drinking water is a recipe for dehydration disaster. Don't do it.

3. Bring a crash pad (or two).

Sand is not as soft as you think it is.

4. Bring a brush.

Or whatever. Just bring something bristly to scrub the sand off your shoes. Nothing kills the friction between your 5.10 Moccasyms and the rock faster than particles of sand. Except maybe petroleum jelly. 

5. Bring a camera.

Your friends will be jealous, especially if it's November and you're bouldering in a t-shirt on some white-sand California beach and they're waist-deep in snow because they live in Minnesota.