Ohman Lake
24 boulder problems · Quartz-feldspar gneiss · 11,569 ft
What's here
VB to V8, mostly around V3.
Counted from the 24 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 19 Crag only 2
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Pink is the New Black, Key to the Castle (2 climbs, about 60 seconds on Under Loch and Key Boulder) would place up to 3 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
Quartz-feldspar gneiss. Paleoproterozoic, about 2,500 to 1,600 million years old.
Gray, dark-gray, white, pinkish-gray, and tan, moderately foliated to well-foliated, layered, fine- to coarse-grained (mostly medium grained) quartz-plagioclase-microcline-biotite gneiss. Proportion of minerals varies widely. Layers typically 10 cm to several tens of meters thick and commonly wavy. Locally contains layers of foliated monzogranite and granodiorite. May contain minor, thin layers of hornblende gneiss and amphibolite. Commonly migmatitic. U-Pb date on weakly foliated rock of monzogranitic composition in northwestern part of Indian Hills 7.5-minute quadrangle is 1,776±4 Ma. Weathers tan to pinkish tan in rounded outcrops. Crops out widely throughout map area
This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Kellogg and others, 2008, USGS Geologic Investigations Series 3000). 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: Quartz-feldspar gneiss. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1905
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1905. 29 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, 1905 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.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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Routes
A River Runs Through It Boulder
- 1 A River Runs Through It V4-
AAA Boulder
- 1 AAA V4
Art Boulder
- 1 Dada Movement V4
- 2 Warm Up V-easy
Bear Boulder
- 1 I Predict a Riot V6
Black Boulder
- 1 Into the Black V3-4
- 2 Loch Ness Monster V6
- 3 Tall, Dark, and Handsome V2
Captain Keating Boulder
- 1 Captain Keating (broke) V7
- 2 Father of the Year V7
- 3 Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda V8
- 4 Girlfriend Material V5-6
Crach Loch Boulder
- 1 Crach Loch V2
- 2 Crach Loch Right V2
- 3 White Willy V3
Slab Boulder
- 1 Compton V3-4
Sweet Amarillo Boulder
- 1 Sweet Amarillo V5
- 2 Sweet Amarillo Low V6
Under Loch and Key Boulder
- 1 Pink is the New Black V3
- 2 I Am Not a Nurse V3
- 3 Tension Pneumothorax V4
- 4 Under Loch and Key V5-
- 5 Key to the Castle V6
Elsewhere at this crag
- Nothing Gold V6
Also within 3 km
- Steuart Lake320 m · 3 boulder problems · 11,489 ft
- Reynolds Lake347 m · 13 boulder problems · 11,467 ft
- Space Boulders430 m · 4 boulder problems · 11,548 ft
- Corner Area1,010 m · 2 routes and 2 boulder problems · 11,193 ft
- Hump Area1,010 m · 5 boulder problems · 11,193 ft
- Mt. Bancroft1,250 m · 1 route · 13,249 ft · Indian Peaks & James Peak Wilderness Areas
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.
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
The map point for this crag is on land managed by Arapaho National Forest (federal). It lies inside inventoried roadless area, national forest.
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 Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests land
- Fees
- No entrance fee for the forest. Some locations require a reservation, pass, permit or day-use fee.
- Overnight
- Camping more than 14 days in a 30-day period, or more than 30 days in a 365-day period, is prohibited across the forests and the Pawnee National Grassland. Dispersed camping is within 300 feet of most Forest Service roads, on National Forest land; the MVUM shows which.
Read on Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests'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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