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Loaf of Bread & Bun (in the Land of Crank)

3 routes · alluvium (Young stream-channel and overbank alluvium) · 7,953 ft

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Crag only 3 

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Rock, from the geologic map

Young stream-channel and overbank alluvium — alluvium. Holocene, younger than 12,000 years.

Mostly pebbly sand and poorly sorted, clast-supported, pebble, cobble, and, locally, bouldery gravel in a sandy matrix. Unit locally may include thin, organic-rich layers. Clasts commonly are sub- angular and subrounded and consist of Proterozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks, Cretaceous and Tertiary intrusive rocks, and, in Arkansas River channel, Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (mostly Cambrian quartzite). Deposits form streambeds and adjacent flood plains, fill channels, and underlie low terraces less than about 2 m above present stream level. Low-lying areas are prone to periodic erosion and (or) deposition. Locally includes minor amounts of colluvium and small fan deposits; locally may include outwash gravel of Pinedale glaciation (Qgp). Estimated thickness is 5–10 m

This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Kellogg and others, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3382). 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: Young stream-channel and overbank alluvium. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1955

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1955. 22 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1955 USGS sheet covering Loaf of Bread & Bun (in the Land of Crank)
USGS 1:62500-scale Quadrangle for Buena Vista, CO 1955 · U.S. Geological Survey · 1955 · 1:62,500 sheet
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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, 1955 to 1994: 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.

High bridge near Buena Vista · Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · 1880
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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Buena Vista and Collegiate Range on the Colo. Midland Ry. · McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957 · 1911
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Buena Vista (vicinity), Colorado. The Sawatch mountains · Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 · 1941
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Snow-capped mountain near Buena Vista, Colorado · Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 · 1941
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The Sawatch Mountains, near Buena Vista, Colorado · Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 · 1941
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The Sawatch mountains near Buena Vista, Colorado · Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 · 1941
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[Untitled photo, possibly related to: The Sawatch mountains near Buena Vista, Colorado] · Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 · 1941
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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.

Grace Episcopal Church (Colorado) · Jeffrey Beall · 2010 · 309 m from the crag's map point
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20250726 03 DSP&P depot, Buena Vista, Colorado · David Wilson · 2025 · 373 m from the crag's map point
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Buena Vista, Colorado, Town Hall · Elisa.rolle · 2017 · 396 m from the crag's map point
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Buena Vista, United States (Unsplash rJNxgIgecqQ) · Holly Mandarich hollymandarich · 2017 · 409 m from the crag's map point
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Buena Vista, United States (Unsplash) · Holly Mandarich hollymandarich · 2017 · 409 m from the crag's map point
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J.M. Bonney House · Jeffrey Beall · 2010 · 690 m from the crag's map point
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Heliothis phloxiphaga 225106080 · Robert Webster · 2022 · 708 m from the crag's map point
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Chaffee County Courthouse and Jail Buildings · Jeffrey Beall · 2010 · 1,333 m from the crag's map point
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Chaffee County Courthouse and Jail Buildings (cropped) · Jeffrey Beall · 2010 · 1,333 m from the crag's map point
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Life Preserver Loaner Station · Nolabob · 2026 · 1,353 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
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Rain & forecast
No recent weather for this crag.

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

Emergency: call 911. Read out your location: Works without signal. If GPS fails, this crag's approximate map point is 38.83880 N, 106.13290 W (Loaf of Bread & Bun (in the Land of Crank)). 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.

Nearby, from OpenStreetMap

Toilets
249 m away (map)
Mapped parking
55 m away (map)
Campsite
BV Overlook Camp & Lodging, 4,149 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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