Misson Boulders
18 boulder problems · sandstone (Morrison, Ralston Creek, and Entrada (or Exeter) Fms, with mudstone, claystone) · 4,388 ft
What's here
V0 to V6, mostly around V1.
Counted from the 18 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) 1 Position on wall known 13 Crag only 4
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Walk Outside, Right Overhang (2 climbs, about 60 seconds on Vortex Boulder and Padilla Boulder, The) 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
Morrison, Ralston Creek, and Entrada (or Exeter) Fms (Morrison Formation, Ralston Creek Formation, Entrada Sandstone) — sandstone, mudstone, claystone. Jurassic, about 164 to 145 million years old.
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: Morrison, Ralston Creek, and Entrada (or Exeter) Fms. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1891
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1891. 20 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, 1891 to 1996: USGS topoView.
Routes
Block Top Boulder
- 1 Hang Time V2
House Boulders
- 1 Green Art V1
- 2 The Path V1
- 3 Pleasure Cruise V3
Luicita Boulder
- 1 Nothing Is Enough V6
- 2 Gill's Other Crack V5
- 3 Switching Lanes V6-7
Vortex Boulder and Padilla Boulder, The
- 1 Walk Outside V3-
- 2 Left Overhang Direct V5
- 3 Center Overhang Direct V5
- 4 OW Crack V1
- 5 Right Overhang V1
Warm-up Boulder
- 1 Northeast Edge V0
- 2 North Edge V0
Elsewhere at this crag
- Fat Finger Slim V1
- Half Hearted V2-3
- Right Overhang Crest V1
- The Prow V0
Also within 3 km
- Lone Tree Bluff286 m · 4 routes · 4,625 ft
- Scorpio Crag422 m · 14 routes · 4,583 ft
- The Don Wall881 m · 5 routes · 4,612 ft
- Dino Overlook2,104 m · 3 routes · 4,636 ft
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 Comanche National Grassland (federal). It lies inside national grassland.
The boundary is close. Land managed by Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site 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 Comanche National Grassland'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
- Withers Canyon Trailhead, 2,761 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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