Deep Cut Guide

Heil Valley Ranch

3 boulder problems · Colluvium · 6,038 ft

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How well located

Position on wall known 2  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

Colluvium. Cenozoic, up to about 2.6 million years old.

Bouldery to pebbly sandy silt and clay deposited by gravity and sheet wash on slodes. Color and texture of colluvium reflects parent material. May contain and interfinger with alluvium of various ages. Thickness as much as 25 feet (7.5 m) but generally n

This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Colton, Roger B., 1976, U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-855-G). 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: Colluvium. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1902

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1902. 29 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1902 USGS sheet covering Heil Valley Ranch
USGS 1:62500-scale Quadrangle for Boulder, CO 1902 · U.S. Geological Survey · 1902 · 1:62,500 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, 1902 to 1984: 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.

DJI 0079a--Stereo Photo 3D (50965778113)
DJI 0079a--Stereo Photo 3D (50965778113) · relaxednow · 2020 · 1,178 m from the crag's map point
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2022 Interagency Wildland Fire Briefing (20220411-FS-WC-0134) · USDAgov · 2022 · 563 m from the crag's map point
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2022 Interagency Wildland Fire Briefing (20220411-FS-WC-0135) · USDAgov · 2022 · 563 m from the crag's map point
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2022 Interagency Wildland Fire Briefing (20220411-FS-WC-0150) · USDAgov · 2022 · 563 m from the crag's map point
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2022 Interagency Wildland Fire Briefing (20220411-FS-WC-0156) · USDAgov · 2022 · 563 m from the crag's map point
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2022 Interagency Wildland Fire Briefing (20220411-FS-WC-0161) · USDAgov · 2022 · 563 m from the crag's map point
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2022 Interagency Wildland Fire Briefing (20220411-FS-WC-0166) · USDAgov · 2022 · 563 m from the crag's map point
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2022 Interagency Wildland Fire Briefing (20220411-FS-WC-0172) · USDAgov · 2022 · 563 m from the crag's map point
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2022 Interagency Wildland Fire Briefing (20220411-FS-WC-0173) · USDAgov · 2022 · 563 m from the crag's map point
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2022 Interagency Wildland Fire Briefing (20220411-FS-WC-0176) · USDAgov · 2022 · 563 m from the crag's map point
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2022 Interagency Wildland Fire Briefing (20220411-FS-WC-0179) · USDAgov · 2022 · 563 m from the crag's map point
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2022 Interagency Wildland Fire Briefing (20220411-FS-WC-0180) · USDAgov · 2022 · 563 m from the crag's map point
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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
Wall direction not known yet.
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 40.15236 N, 105.29759 W (Heil Valley Ranch). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

The map point for this crag is on land managed by Boulder County Parks & Open Space (local government), in Heil Valley Ranch.

The boundary is close. Land managed by Colorado Open Lands comes within 250 m of this point, and the point is not the rock — the wall itself may be on the other side of the line. Check which before you rely on either one's rules.

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.

Nobody has yet read Boulder County Parks & Open Space'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
531 m away (map)
Mapped parking
427 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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