Goliath Boulders (South Drainage)
37 boulder problems · Dakota Sandstone and Burro Canyon Fm · 6,578 ft
What's here
V0 to V5, with no single grade dominating.
Counted from the 37 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 35
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Captain's Daughter, Layaway On Hell (2 climbs, about 60 seconds on Afraid Of Hell) would place up to 4 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
Dakota Sandstone and Burro Canyon Fm (Dakota Sandstone, Burro Canyon Formation) — sandstone, shale, conglomerate. Early Cretaceous, about 125 to 100 million years old.
Sandstone, shale, and conglomerate. In northwest and west-central: Lower Cretaceous. In southwest: Lower and Upper Cretaceous.
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: Dakota Sandstone and Burro Canyon Fm. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1909
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1909. 17 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, 1909 to 1983: 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.
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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
Abednego
- 1 Avoiding Evil V3
- 2 Windup Bird V0
- 3 Cast Down V2
Afraid Of Hell
- 1 Captain's Daughter V3
- 2 BXO V2
- 3 Spanky Pants V4
- 4 Wicca Wacca V0
- 5 Pride Before A Fall V3
- 6 Layaway On Hell V5
Dyno Boulder
- 1 Cast Lots V0
Goliath Boulder
- 1 Sling Shot V0
- 2 Sinai V0
Meshach
- 1 Slingshot Ricochet V0
- 2 You're Fired V1
Noah's Ark
- 1 Free Will Alternate Start V3
- 2 Free Will V2
Piton Boulder
- 1 Scala Sancta V1
- 2 Piton Problem V1
- 3 Conversation Piece V0
Sex Boulder
- 1 Testing Temptation V1
- 2 Jezabel's Heel V4
- 3 Missionary Position V2
- 4 Prenuptial Rock Humping V1
Shadrach
- 1 Like'n Love V1
- 2 Chatterbox V1
Stakedance
- 1 Bodhi Tree Traverse V0
- 2 Buddha's Bellies V0
- 3 Siddartha's Left Arm V0
- 4 Under The Bodhi Tree V2
- 5 Brouhaha V3
Watermark Boulder
- 1 Bris Cutoff V3
- 2 Bris Shortcut V0
- 3 Bris-ness Is Booming V0
- 4 Shaky Mohel V3
- 5 Abstemii V1
- 6 King David's Folly V1
Wise Boulder
- 1 Wise Women V2
Also within 3 km
- Cathedral Boulders (Middle Drainage)444 m · 1 route and 5 boulder problems · 6,550 ft
- Outlying Boulders531 m · 11 boulder problems · 6,541 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.
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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 Bureau of Land Management (federal), in Uncompahgre Field Office.
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 Bureau of Land Management land
- Fees
- Developed campgrounds are fee sites: at Shelf Road, Sand Gulch is $20 a night for an individual site and $40 for a group site, with no drinking water, hook-ups or trash service. Where a fee area is posted, you must register and pay within 30 minutes of entering it.
- Overnight
- Camping more than 14 days in any 30-day period at any one location is prohibited, including in a campground, and afterwards you must move at least 30 air miles. Personal property may not be left unattended anywhere on public land for more than 48 hours.
Read on Bureau of Land Management'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.
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