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Wasatch Mountain Walls

3 routes · Eocene prevolcanic sedimentary rocks · 10,739 ft

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Position on wall known 3 

No route here has its own point yet. The map pin is the crag. At the wall? Survey it: 30 seconds per route.

Rock, from the geologic map

Eocene prevolcanic sedimentary rocks (Echo Park Alluvium, Telluride Conglomerate, Blanco Basin Formation) — arkose, gravel, minor conglomerate, mudstone, sandstone. Paleogene, about 57 to 46 million years old.

South-central: Arkosic sand and bouldery gravel of Echo Park Alluvium. Southwest: includes Telluride Conglomerate and Blanco Basin Fm (arkosic mudstone, sandstone, and conglomerate)

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: Eocene prevolcanic sedimentary rocks. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1897

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1897. 29 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1897 USGS sheet covering Wasatch Mountain Walls
USGS 1:62500-scale Quadrangle for Telluride, CO 1897 · U.S. Geological Survey · 1897 · 1:62,500 sheet
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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, 1897 to 1982: USGS topoView.

From the archives

Photographs of this area held by the Library of Congress, oldest first. Every one carries the Library's own "no known restrictions on publication"; anything else is left out.

On the trail to Pike's Peak, from Bear Creek Canon to the summit, 14 miles - lake and Halfway House
On the trail to Pike's Peak, from Bear Creek Canon to the summit, 14 miles - lake and Halfway House · Brandt, Eugene · 1870 · stereograph
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On the trail to Pike's Peak, from Bear Creek Canon to the summit, 14 miles - the bottomless pit · Brandt, Eugene · 1870 · stereograph
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Bear Creek Falls, Ouray-Silverton Stage Road, Colo. · Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · 1900
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Mountain lodge for Paul T. Mayo, Bear Creek Cañon, Colorado--J. B. Benedict - Architect--Denver Colo. · Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952 · 1903
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Mountain lodge of Mrs. Paul T. Mayo, Bear Creek Cañon, Rocky Mountains, Colorado--West elevation · Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952 · 1903
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[Interior of the stone mountain lodge of Mrs. Paul T. Mayo, Bear Creek Cañon, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, designed by architect Jacques Benois Benedict, showing cathedral ceiling, fireplace, chandelier · Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952 · 1903
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[Stone mountain lodge of Paul T. Mayo, Bear Creek Cañon, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, with boy seated on step, designed by architect Jacques Benois Benedict] · Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952 · 1903
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Photographs near this crag

Taken within 1.5 km of this crag's map point and published under a licence that lets us show them, from Wikimedia Commons. The coordinates say where the camera was, not what it was pointed at, so some of these will be the creek or the trail rather than the rock.

Dallas Peak, Telluride
Dallas Peak, Telluride · dana.m.wilson · 2019 · 808 m from the crag's map point
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Snowmelt Trickle - panoramio · Miles Buddy · 2013 · 842 m from the crag's map point
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Bear Creek trail, looking up - panoramio · Miles Buddy · 2013 · 981 m from the crag's map point
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Pond - panoramio (37) · Miles Buddy · 2013 · 1,390 m from the crag's map point
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Telluride Mountains · Stockton Whitfield · 2014 · 1,404 m from the crag's map point
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Erethizon dorsatum 224160839 · Alan Rockefeller · 2022 · 1,446 m from the crag's map point
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2007 TellurideBlueGrassFestivalStageView · Jackobli · 2007 · 1,491 m from the crag's map point
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Routes

Also within 3 km

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.

Pick a photo from your camera roll rather than taking one here: a picture taken inside a browser usually has no location saved in it, and we check that the photo was taken at this crag before publishing it. Photos of guidebook pages and topos are refused — they're the author's work. By sending one you're letting us publish it.

Nobody reviews these before they appear, so anyone can report one and it's hidden straight away — including you, if you change your mind, and including a photographer who finds their own picture here.

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.

Sun today
sun 08:10-11:00
Wall faces SE (USGS elevation). Shade from the surrounding terrain is counted.
Partly enclosed: the skyline averages 9° above horizontal.
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Rain & forecast
No recent weather for this crag.

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

Emergency: call 911. Read out your location: Works without signal. If GPS fails, this crag's approximate map point is 37.92194 N, 107.81579 W (Wasatch Mountain Walls). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

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
1,567 m away (map)
Campsite
Unnamed, 1,655 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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