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7 routes and 42 boulder problems · Pierre Shale, Upper Shale Member · 5,386 ft
What's here
5.6 to 5.11, with no single grade dominating.
VB to V7, mostly around V0.
Counted from the 49 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
Base placed (one source) 2 Position on wall known 14 Crag only 33
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Just For Fun, Wine and Vine (2 climbs, about 60 seconds on Wolf Law Building) would place up to 3 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
Pierre Shale, Upper Shale Member (Pierre Shale). Late Cretaceous, about 84 to 75 million years old.
Gray concretionary silty shale. Thickness about 865 m
This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Colton, Roger B., 1976, U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-855-G). 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 100 m wide on the ground, so the wall itself may be the neighbouring unit. Every crag on this unit: Pierre Shale, Upper Shale Member. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1902
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1902. 29 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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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, 1902 to 1984: USGS topoView.
In print since 1877
1877 Geologic Map of Colorado (Hayden), high-resolution scan · F. V. Hayden; scan by the Colorado Geological Survey · 1877
Geological and geographical atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory · F. V. Hayden, U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories · 1877
Trail and Timberline, volume 2 (1918) · Colorado Mountain Club · 1918
Free to read: public domain or government work. About Boulder as a whole, not this wall. More in the reading room.
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.
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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.
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Routes
Andrews
- 1 Tea Room Traverse V3-4
CU General Campus
- 1 Over Troubled Water V1
Lot 436
- 1 Trustfund Tacoma V4
- 2 Cheese Grater V0
Music Building
- 1 Alcove Upper Traverse V1
- 2 Alcove Lower Traverse V2-
Old Main
- 1 High Voltage V2
- 2 The Spiral Campus V1+
- 3 North Face of Macky 5.11d
UMC
- 1 Concrete Jug Jungle V0+
- 2 Wanna Get Bricked? V1+
Wolf Law Building
- 1 Just For Fun V0
- 2 Just For Kicks V-easy
- 3 Industrial Traverse V0
- 4 Acid Raindrops V0+
- 5 Wine and Vine V0
Elsewhere at this crag
- Humanities Tower 5.6
- Math Tower 5.6
- Chimney of Knowledge 5.8
- Balched Again 5.9+
- Bourgeoisie Balcony V0
- Breaking and Entering V1-2
- Crimp Master V0+
- Dihedral 5.11-
- Door Dyno V0+
- Dyno One V0
- Dyno Traverse V1
- Four Corners V0-
- Hand Traverse V2
- High Exposure V0
- Lorin's Reach V0+
- North Crack V0-
- North Door V1
- North Wall V2-3
- Number Cruncher V7
- Plummer's Crack V4
- Pythagorean Theorem V1
- Reciprocal V2
- South Traverse V0
- South Wall V0-
- South West Crack V0
- Statics and Structures V3
- Tequila Exotico 5.7
- The Elevator V0
- The Pit at Mackey V0-1
- V2 V2
- Walk Around V0-
- Windows V1
- X marks the spot V2
Also within 3 km
- Boulder Fish Observing Windows736 m · 2 boulder problems · 5,276 ft
- Millennium Harvest House765 m · 1 route · 5,289 ft
- United Methodist Church of Boulder918 m · 4 boulder problems · 5,315 ft
- Safeway Spires1,013 m · 2 routes · 5,285 ft
- The Hill1,275 m · 1 route and 1 boulder problem · 5,496 ft
- Best Buy1,543 m · 3 routes and 1 boulder problem · 5,273 ft
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
- 1,121 m away (map)
- Mapped parking
- 30 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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