Pipeline Wall
22 routes · Eocene prevolcanic sedimentary rocks · 9,994 ft
What's here
5.7 to 5.12, mostly around 5.10.
Counted from the 22 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 22
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 Shark Skin Leisure Suit, Dreams of Ambition, Black and Tan (3 climbs, about 90 seconds) would place up to 19 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
Eocene prevolcanic sedimentary rocks (Echo Park Alluvium, Telluride Conglomerate, Blanco Basin Formation) — arkose, gravel, minor conglomerate, mudstone, sandstone. Paleogene, about 57 to 46 million years old.
South-central: Arkosic sand and bouldery gravel of Echo Park Alluvium. Southwest: includes Telluride Conglomerate and Blanco Basin Fm (arkosic mudstone, sandstone, and conglomerate)
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: Eocene prevolcanic sedimentary 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. 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, 1897 to 1982: USGS topoView.
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.
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Routes
- 1 Shark Skin Leisure Suit 5.11c
- 2 Contortionist 5.10+
- 3 Real Tomato Ketchup 5.10+
- 4 Rocksteady 5.10+
- 5 Crystal Squeeze 5.9-
- 6 Crystal Cruise 5.8
- 7 Whip or Will 5.11-
- 8 Underground Railroad 5.11+
- 9 Ame's Way 5.7
- 10 Skylight Arete 5.8
- 11 Rock Cobbler 5.7
- 12 Can't Touch This 5.11-
- 13 Dreams of Ambition 5.10+
- 14 High Motivation 5.10c/d
- 15 Dolittle Does Something 5.11+
- 16 Queen Anne’s Revenge 5.10
- 17 Swashbucklers and Scallywags 5.9
- 18 Calypso 5.9-
- 19 Blackbeard’s Gold 5.8-
- 20 Dangler 5.10b
- 21 Gold 5.12d
- 22 Black and Tan 5.10d
Also within 3 km
- The Second Boulder851 m · 6 boulder problems · 9,226 ft · Mine Boulders, The
- Family Values922 m · 3 routes · 10,346 ft · Falls Walls, The
- Main Wall922 m · 18 routes · 10,346 ft · Falls Walls, The
- Streaked Wall922 m · 35 routes · 10,346 ft · Falls Walls, The
- Million Dollar Boulder948 m · 5 boulder problems · 9,123 ft · Mine Boulders, The
- The Mine Boulder994 m · 8 boulder problems · 9,108 ft · Mine Boulders, The
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
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
- Mapped parking
- 120 m away (map)
- Campsite
- Unnamed, 3,564 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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