The Aircraft Carrier
5 routes and 18 boulder problems · Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite · 8,793 ft
What's here
5.8 to 5.12, with no single grade dominating.
V0 to V11, with no single grade dominating.
Counted from the 23 climbs here that carry a grade. Shown only where there are at least 5 of them — below that the shape is noise.
How well located
Position on wall known 23
No route here has its own point yet. The map pin is the crag. At the wall? Survey it: 30 seconds per route.
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at V0, Dem Apples, Hangar (3 climbs, about 90 seconds) would place up to 20 more climbs between them. Survey the wall →
“Up to” because the estimate between two surveyed routes is only used when they turn out to be close enough together on the ground.
Rock, from the geologic map
Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite — biotite gneiss, schist, migmatite, minor gneiss, calc silicate schist, marble. Paleoproterozoic, about 2,500 to 1,600 million years old.
Locally contains minor hornblende gneiss, calc-silicate rock, quartzite, and marble. Derived principally from sedimentary rocks
This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:500,000 sheet (Horton and others, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052). The point can be a few hundred metres from the rock, a cliff often stands on the line between two units, and at that scale a line on the map is about 500 m wide on the ground, so the wall itself may be the neighbouring unit. Every crag on this unit: Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1889
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1889. 33 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.
USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain · the record · placed by its coordinates
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Hidden as soon as you tell us, everywhere it appears, before anyone reviews it.
Public domain, U.S. Geological Survey. The sheet shows the ground as the survey found it then, which is why a trail or road you know may be missing. Every sheet over this point, 1889 to 1983: USGS topoView.
Routes
- 1 V0 V0
- 2 V1 Sloper V1
- 3 V0/1 V0+
- 4 V2 V2
- 5 Route 1 5.8
- 6 Route 2 5.10a
- 7 Route 3 5.10c
- 8 Route 4 5.11
- 9 Route 5 5.12+
- 10 Big Boulder - First Problem V3+
- 11 Crimp Route V6
- 12 Dem Krusbär V8
- 13 Dem Apples V8
- 14 Romeo V7
- 15 Star-Crossed Romeo V8
- 16 Star Crossed Lovers V5+
- 17 Mercutio V6
- 18 Juliet V11
- 19 Kevin's Problem V9
- 20 Rhythm of the Saints V11
- 21 Hit! V3
- 22 Cool Arete V9
- 23 Hangar V5-6
Also within 3 km
- Homestake Road Crag822 m · 12 routes · 8,887 ft · Homestake Road Crag
- Upper Tier Right1,448 m · 6 routes · 9,067 ft · Hornsilver
- Lower Tier1,470 m · 4 routes · 9,067 ft · Hornsilver
- Upper Tier Left1,546 m · 5 routes · 9,169 ft · Hornsilver
- Roof Rock1,753 m · 7 routes · 8,847 ft · Roof Rock
- Fraggle Rock2,725 m · 2 routes · 8,899 ft · Fraggle Rock
Straight line between the two crags' map points, each of which can be some way from its rock. For when this wall is full, or the sun has found it.
Photos from climbers
No photos here yet. If you're at the crag, yours would be the first.
Taken at the crag by climbers and published as they sent them. Each one's own location had to be within 0.5 km of this crag before we accepted it. See something that shouldn't be here? Use Report this photo under it and it's hidden at once. Anything else, write to us.
Conditions reported
Nothing reported recently.
Report what you see
Reports are dated and fade on their own: wet rock after 3 days, a bad bolt after a year. No names, no text.
Access & safety
We don't know who manages this ground: PAD-US doesn't map this point as protected land, which most often means it is private. Find out whose it is before you go.
Nobody has yet read the land manager's own rules for this crag and written them down here, so treat the above as where you are, not as what you may do.
Nearby, from OpenStreetMap
- Toilets
- 1,345 m away (map)
- Campsite
- Hornsilver Campsite, 1,347 m away (map)
Distances are a straight line from this crag's map point, which can itself be hundreds of metres off; a road may be much longer. Mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), so a toilet missing here may simply be unmapped. Parking here is what OSM has drawn nearby, not a guidebook's directions.
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