Deep Cut Guide

Electric Wall

1 route · Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite · 7,491 ft

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How well located

Crag only 1 

No route here has its own point yet. The map pin is the crag. At the wall? Survey it: 30 seconds per route.

Rock, from the geologic map

Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite — biotite gneiss, schist, migmatite, minor gneiss, calc silicate schist, marble. Paleoproterozoic, about 2,500 to 1,600 million years old.

Locally contains minor hornblende gneiss, calc-silicate rock, quartzite, and marble. Derived principally from sedimentary rocks

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: Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1954

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1954. 15 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1954 USGS sheet covering Electric Wall
USGS 1:250000-scale Quadrangle for Craig, CO 1954 · U.S. Geological Survey · 1954 · 1:250,000 sheet
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, 1954 to 1981: USGS topoView.

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.

A view into Gore Canyon From The California Zephyr - panoramio · Loco Steve · 2010 · 233 m from the crag's map point
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California Zephyr in Gore Canyon Colorado - panoramio (3) · Loco Steve · 2010 · 735 m from the crag's map point
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Colorado River from the California Zephyr - June 2022 Sarah Stierch 01 · Missvain · 2022 · 144 m from the crag's map point
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Gore Canyon Views From California Zephyr - panoramio · Loco Steve · 2010 · 570 m from the crag's map point
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This is the East End of Gore Canyon as the train continues East through Kremmling - panoramio · Loco Steve · 2010 · 1,011 m from the crag's map point
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Colorado River from the California Zephyr - June 2022 Sarah Stierch 02 · Missvain · 2022 · 1,238 m from the crag's map point
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Routes

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.

Pick a photo from your camera roll rather than taking one here: a picture taken inside a browser usually has no location saved in it, and we check that the photo was taken at this crag before publishing it. Photos of guidebook pages and topos are refused — they're the author's work. By sending one you're letting us publish it.

Nobody reviews these before they appear, so anyone can report one and it's hidden straight away — including you, if you change your mind, and including a photographer who finds their own picture here.

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.

Sun today
sun 09:00-14:10
Wall faces SE (USGS elevation). Shade from the surrounding terrain is counted.
Deep terrain: the skyline averages 43° above horizontal, so the sun has to climb well clear of the rim before it reaches this wall.
Rain & forecast
No recent weather for this crag.

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

Emergency: call 911. Read out your location: Works without signal. If GPS fails, this crag's approximate map point is 40.03182 N, 106.44994 W (Electric Wall). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

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.

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