Sanctuary
20 boulder problems · Frontier Sandstone and Mowry Shale Members of Mancos Shale, and Dakota Sandstone · 7,974 ft
What's here
V0 to V3, with no single grade dominating.
Counted from the 20 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 16 Crag only 2
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Crackola, Buena Vista Sit-Start (2 climbs, about 60 seconds on Kwik-E-Mart Boulder) would place up to 7 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
Frontier Sandstone and Mowry Shale Members of Mancos Shale, and Dakota Sandstone (Frontier Sandstone Member, Mowry Shale Member, Dakota Sandstone) — sandstone, shale, minor conglomerate. Early Cretaceous, about 122 to 100 million years old.
Locally includes, at base, Burro Canyon Fm (shale and sandstone) or, in western Moffat County, Cedar Mountain Fm (conglomerate and shale)
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: Frontier Sandstone and Mowry Shale Members of Mancos Shale, and Dakota Sandstone. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1957
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1957. 13 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, 1957 to 1982: USGS topoView.
Routes
Backflop
- 1 Easy Way Out V1
- 2 Style Points V3
- 3 Watch Your Back V2
Kwik-E-Mart Boulder
- 1 Crackola V0
- 2 LBS V0
- 3 Laeser Guided V1
- 4 Crack Attack V1
- 5 Pockaholic V3
- 6 Spice-it-up V3+
- 7 Gotta Get Up To Get Down V2
- 8 Buena Vista V1
- 9 Buena Vista Sit-Start V1-2
Molar, The
- 1 The Docter V2
Pockmark
- 1 Stick It V1
- 2 Stan the Man V1
- 3 Get On Up V2
- 4 Too Tall V1
Elsewhere at this crag
- Coco Puffs V0
- Easy Slabs V0
- Slaba the Hut V0-1
Also within 3 km
- Spider Wall117 m · 2 boulder problems · 7,858 ft
- The Wall aka Breakfast Nook187 m · 9 routes · 7,718 ft
- Roadside Boulders217 m · 15 boulder problems · 7,675 ft
- River Wall268 m · 6 routes · 7,681 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
The map point for this crag is on land managed by White River National Forest (federal). It lies inside inventoried roadless area, national forest.
Land manager from USGS PAD-US (public domain), read 2026-09-29. It is the manager of the crag's map point, which can be a long way from the wall. What you may do on the rock is the manager's to say, not ours.
Rules for all White River National Forest land
- Rules
- The forest strongly recommends dispersed campers pack out solid human waste using an approved disposable or self-contained system rather than burying it in a cathole.
- Overnight
- Camping more than 14 days in any continuous 30-day period is prohibited, counted from the first day of occupancy. Some places allow dispersed camping only at designated sites and some run a shorter 7-day limit in summer.
Read on White River National Forest's own pages, checked 2026-09-29 by John Crawford. What they require, in full, or their own climbing page. These apply to the manager's whole holding; anything specific to this crag is above.
Nearby, from OpenStreetMap
- Mapped parking
- 250 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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