Cracked Canyon
42 routes · mafic hypabyssal (Middle Tertiary intrusive rocks, with felsic hypabyssal) · 9,795 ft
What's here
5.4 to 5.13, mostly around 5.10.
Counted from the 42 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 42
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 Chip Off, Where The Wild Things Are, Thor, Third Grade, Easy Money (5 climbs, about 150 seconds) would place up to 37 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
Middle Tertiary intrusive rocks — mafic hypabyssal, felsic hypabyssal. Cenozoic, about 56 to 5.3 million years old.
Intermediate to felsic compositions
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. Every crag on this unit: Middle Tertiary intrusive rocks. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1897
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1897. 28 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, 1897 to 1982: 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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8 more at the Library of Congress.
Routes
- 1 Chip Off 5.9
- 2 Iago 5.8
- 3 Othello 5.10-
- 4 First Step 5.10
- 5 Cello 5.10+
- 6 Javelin 5.11-
- 7 Secrets Of Nature 5.13a
- 8 Reptilicus (The Crock) 5.10d
- 9 Where Eagles Dare 5.11+
- 10 Fool's Grasp 5.9+
- 11 Free Box 5.10
- 12 Salvation 5.11
- 13 Where The Wild Things Are 5.9
- 14 Limey Peel 5.9
- 15 Icy Fingers 5.8
- 16 Tobacco Road 5.9
- 17 Orange Peel 5.10
- 18 Tick Fever 5.11+
- 19 Summertime 5.9+
- 20 Superfresh 5.11-
- 21 Bat Splat 5.10
- 22 Crack of Mind 5.8
- 23 Chewbacca 5.8
- 24 Round The Corner 5.7+
- 25 Thor 5.10
- 26 Come On Sun 5.10
- 27 Dog Leg 5.7+
- 28 Attica 5.9
- 29 Bones 5.8+
- 30 Roller Skates 5.8
- 31 Froggy Bottoms 5.7
- 32 Algebra 5.6
- 33 Pirouette 5.7
- 34 Where Are Your Friends? 5.10+
- 35 Air Arete 5.10
- 36 Teacher's Pet 5.8
- 37 Third Grade 5.8
- 38 Beginner's Luck 5.6
- 39 Exodus 5.8
- 40 Genesis 5.4
- 41 Margin 5.4
- 42 Easy Money 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.
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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
The map point for this crag is on land managed by Uncompahgre National Forest (federal). It lies inside 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.
Nobody has yet read Uncompahgre National Forest'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
- Campsite
- Matterhorn Campground, 2,342 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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