Lover's Leap
15 routes · Quartz-feldspar gneiss · 7,048 ft
What's here
5.6 to 5.12, with no single grade dominating.
Counted from the 15 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
Position on wall known 13 Crag only 2
No route here has its own point yet. The map pin is the crag. At the wall? Survey it: 30 seconds per route.
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Original Route, It's a Bird! A Plane! (2 climbs, about 60 seconds) would place up to 11 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 1899
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1899. 23 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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Hidden as soon as you tell us, everywhere it appears, before anyone reviews it.
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, 1899 to 1983: USGS topoView.
Routes
- 1 Original Route 5.6
- 2 The Thing 5.12+
- 3 Seamingly Easy 5.11d
- 4 Love It Or Leave It 5.9
- 5 Lover's Leap Arete 5.12a
- 6 Where Tunas Flop 5.10b
- 7 Love Gun 5.10d
- 8 Unknown 5.10a
- 9 No Holds Barred 5.9
- 10 Lover's Leap 5.7
- 11 Something for Nothing 5.9
- 12 Love Dike 5.9
- 13 It's a Bird! A Plane! 5.11d
- Ye Olde Hysterical 5.10b
- Rescue Route 5.6
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.
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 Jefferson County Open Space (local government), in Mount Lindo. It lies inside local park.
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 Jefferson County Parks & Open Space land
- Climbing permit
- Installing fixed hardware on a new route requires a permit: a Fixed Hardware Application, vetted by the Fixed Hardware Review Committee before the Climbing Committee decides.
- Hours
- Unlawful to be on Open Space land from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, unless posted otherwise.
- Rules
- JCPOS does not install, maintain or inspect hardware related to rock climbing. Climbing ethics differ by park -- Clear Creek Canyon, the Cathedral Spires and the South Platte each have their own published guidelines.
- Overnight
- Camping by advance permit only, obtained online at least 24 hours ahead -- not at the park, headquarters or by phone. Only White Ranch and Reynolds Parks, tent-only.
- Dogs
- Dogs must be on a leash ten feet or less in length and under physical control.
Read on Jefferson County Parks & Open Space'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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