Mitchell Creek Canyon
40 boulder problems · Castle Rock Conglomerate · 6,498 ft
What's here
VB to V11, mostly around V2.
Counted from the 40 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 40
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 Creek Beach, BB8, Lady of the Right (3 climbs, about 90 seconds on Corona Crag) would place up to 18 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
Castle Rock Conglomerate. Rupelian, about 30 to 29 million years old.
Indurated bouldery cobbly gravel composed mostly of Precambrian rocks exposed in the Front Range, but also contains some chert and Tertiary volcanic rocks. The sandy matrix of the conglomerate is well-cemented by silica, but basal part of deposits locally is less cemented and softer than the main part of the formation. Generally less than 15 m thick. In eastern part of mapped area includes mudstone, claystone, siltstone, and sandstone that contain volcanic ash.
This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Trimble and others, 2003, U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-856-H). 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: Castle Rock Conglomerate. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1894
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1894. 28 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, 1894 to 1983: USGS topoView.
Routes
Cool Side, The
- 1 Bacon V1
- 2 Eggs V-easy
- 3 Grateful V5
- 4 Be Kind V8-
Corona Crag
- 1 Creek Beach V3-4
- 2 Kitty on Campus V2
- 3 Isolation V4
- 4 Anti-Social Distancing V2
- 5 Platelets V2
- 6 Zoom Sesh V0
- 7 c0r0na Time V0
- 8 Herd Immunity V3
- 9 Overreacting V7
- 10 Cytokine Storm V8
- 11 Mask Off V0
- 12 North South East West Arete Face V1
- 13 BB8 V3
- 14 Half Life V10-
- 15 Mobile Morgue V7
- 16 The Undertaker V11
- 17 The Crypt V10
- 18 Mobile Morgue Sit V9-
- 19 [Redacted] V3
- 20 Hooker Left V2
- 21 Lady of the Right V1
Pandemic Caves
- 1 Nik’s Dirty Arete V3-4
- 2 The 2nd Wave V1
- 3 The New Normal V4
- 4 Bump V7-
- 5 Roofio V6
- 6 Rapid Response V8
- 7 Flight Risk Stand V7-8
- 8 Flight Risk V10-11
- 9 Simple Tricks V7
- 10 Stay at Home Boulder V2
- 11 High Risk V0
- 12 Disinfectant Injection V1
- 13 Self-Quarantine V1
- 14 Unprecedented Times V2-3
- 15 Fomite V2
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.
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
- 1,520 m away (map)
- Mapped parking
- 493 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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