Little Eiger
31 routes · gneiss and schist · 6,346 ft · 5 min approach
What's here
5.9 to 5.13, mostly around 5.10.
Counted from the 31 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 29 Crag only 2
No route here has its own point yet. The map pin is the crag. At the wall? Survey it: 30 seconds per route.
The guidebook order here is known, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Black Hole, First Impressions, Radometer in the Red Zone (3 climbs, about 90 seconds on Little Eiger - left) would place up to 12 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.
Guidebook
Rock Climbing Clear Creek Canyon - Kevin Capps - 3rd ed. · p. 59 every crag it covers
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Rock, from the geologic map
Biotite gneiss. Paleoproterozoic, about 2,500 to 1,600 million years old.
Gray, medium-grained, equigranular, well-foliated gneiss typically containing approximately 25–50 percent quartz, 20–30 percent plagioclase (approximately An30), 0–30 percent microcline, 10–15 percent biotite, 0–15 percent muscovite, 0–10 percent sillimanite, 0–5 percent hornblende, 1–2 percent opaque minerals, and a trace zircon. Most outcrops contain 5–20 percent granitic layers (leucosomes). Sillimanite, where abundant, occurs in fibrous, elongate, light-colored aggregates or clots as wide as about 1 cm. Migmatitic biotite gneiss in Clear Creek gave preliminary U-Pb zircon date on nonmelt phase of 1,773±18 Ma; near Pine, just south of map area, similar rock gave U-Pb zircon date of 1,780±9 Ma (W.R. Premo, unpub. data, 2005)
This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Kellogg and others, 2008, USGS Geologic Investigations Series 3000). 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. The rock named at the top of this page comes from the public geology of this area; this card is the map's answer. Every crag on this unit: Biotite gneiss. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1899
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1899. 24 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, 1899 to 1994: 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 Golden 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.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · found by place name, not yet checked
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12 more at the Library of Congress.
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
Elsewhere at this crag
- 16 Too! 5.12b
- 17 The Nordwand 5.11b
- 18 Natural Selection 5.11b
- 19 Tierra Del Fuego 5.11b
- 20 Bush Administration 5.10b/c
- 21 Busch Gardens 5.10
- 22 The Naked Hedge 5.10
- 23 The Green Zone 5.11a
- 24 Persistent Vegetative State 5.10a/b
- 25 Free Up The Weed 5.11b
- 26 The Decider 5.10b
- 27 Misunderestimate 5.10b/c
- 28 Tsunami Of Charisma 5.11b
- 29 "Is Our Children Learning?" 5.9+
Little Eiger - left
- 1 Black Hole 5.11
- 2 Black Haul 5.10
- 3 Delusions of Grandeur 5.12b
- 4 The DeCappitator 5.13a
- 5 Bonehead 5.10c/d
- 6 Conehead 5.11b
- 7 Headline 5.10a
- 8 Trouthead 5.10d
- 9 Eiger Sanction 5.10d
- 10 Eiffel Tower 5.10d
- 11 Herbal Essence 5.9
- 12 Footloose 5.10a
- 13 First Impressions 5.9+
- 14 Eiger Direct 5.11d
- 15 Radometer in the Red Zone 5.11b/c
Elsewhere at this crag
- Tierra Del Fuego (extension) 5.12a
- Unknown 5.10c
Also within 3 km
- The Red Slab101 m · 20 routes · 6,298 ft
- Rainy Day Rock157 m · 8 routes · 6,179 ft
- Aftermath276 m · 5 routes · 6,688 ft
- Piledriver Formation392 m · 1 route · 6,515 ft
- The Shield458 m · 4 routes · 6,234 ft
- Point Break1,214 m · 7 routes · 6,448 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
- Mapped parking
- 61 m away (map)
- Campsite
- Gennessee Ropes Camp Spot, 3,302 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 — those are above.
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