Deep Cut Guide

Bouldering Areas

109 boulder problems · granite · 8,135 ft

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What's here

VB to V12, mostly around V0.

  1. 1 VB
  2. 21 V0
  3. 10 V1
  4. 12 V2
  5. 20 V3
  6. 17 V4
  7. 13 V5
  8. 7 V6
  9. 3 V7
  10. 2 V8
  11. 1 V10
  12. 2 V12

Counted from the 109 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) 3  Position on wall known 12  Crag only 94 

The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Crack Mantel, Huat Hueco? (2 climbs, about 60 seconds on Beach, The) would place up to 2 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

Granitic rocks of 1700-m.y. age group (Boulder Creek Granite, Cross Creek Granite, Denny Creek Granodiorite, Kroenke Granodiorite, Browns Pass Quartz Monzonite, Powderhorn Granite, Pitts Meadow Granodiorite, Bakers Bridge Granite, Tenmile Granite) — granite, minor granodiorite, quartz monzonite. Statherian, about 1,730 to 1,660 million years old.

Includes Boulder Creek -M.Y. AGE GROUP (AGE 1650-1730 M.Y.)--Includes Boulder Creek, Cross Creek, Denny Creek, Kroenke, Browns Pass, Powderhorn, Pitts Meadow, Bakers Bridge, and Tenmile Granites, Quartz Monzonites, or Granodiorites; also, unnamed granitic 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. 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: Granitic rocks of 1700-m.y. age group. 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 Bouldering Areas
USGS 1:24000-scale Quadrangle for Iris NW, CO 1954 · U.S. Geological Survey · 1954 · 1:24,000 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 1982: USGS topoView.

In print since 1877

Free to read: public domain or government work. About Gunnison 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.

Chipeta Falls, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado
Chipeta Falls, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado · 1906 · postcard
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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Currecanti Needle, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado · 1906 · postcard
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Giant balanced rock, Gunnison River, Colo., U.SA. · 1910 · stereograph
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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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.

Sagebrush steppe- Gunnison Colorado - 17974405020
Sagebrush steppe- Gunnison Colorado - 17974405020 · Matt Lavin · 2015 · 489 m from the crag's map point
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Sagebrush steppe- Gunnison Colorado · Matt Lavin · 2015 · 552 m from the crag's map point
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Sagebrush steppe- Gunnison Colorado - 17974317560 · Matt Lavin · 2015 · 556 m from the crag's map point
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Sagebrush steppe- Gunnison Colorado - 18135700816 · Matt Lavin · 2015 · 823 m from the crag's map point
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Sagebrush steppe- Gunnison Colorado - 17974277188 · Matt Lavin · 2015 · 881 m from the crag's map point
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Hartman Rocks Recreation Area 2 · Jeffrey Beall · 2025 · 1,054 m from the crag's map point
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Gunnison, Colorado remote view · Jeffrey Beall · 2025 · 1,131 m from the crag's map point
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Hartman Rocks Recreation Area 1 · Jeffrey Beall · 2025 · 1,151 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 12:30-16:30
Wall faces W (USGS elevation). Shade from the surrounding terrain is counted.
Partly enclosed: the skyline averages 12° above horizontal.
Crags by sun and shade →
Rain & forecast
0 mm of rain in the last 48 hours.
11-11 54°/20° · 0.0 mm · 9 mph · pm storms 0% 11-12 56°/31° · 0.0 mm · 8 mph · pm storms 0% 11-13 51°/29° · 0.0 mm · 6 mph · pm storms 0%
Open-Meteo, fetched 2026-11-11 18:40 UTC

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 38.49730 N, 106.94785 W (Bouldering Areas). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

The map point for this crag is on land managed by Bureau of Land Management (federal), in Gunnison 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.

Nearby, from OpenStreetMap

Toilets
271 m away (map)
Mapped parking
904 m away (map)
Campsite
Unnamed, 155 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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