Hewlett Gulch

1 boulder problem · granite and gneiss · 5,744 ft

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The guidebook for this area

Colorado Bouldering: Front Range - Phillip Benningfield, Matt Samet - 2020 every crag it covers

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Poudre Canyon Rock Climbing Guide - Bennett Scott - 3rd ed. every crag it covers

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Rock, from the geologic map

Gravelly stream alluvium — gravel, sand. Pleistocene, younger than 781,000 years.

Small deposits of poorly sorted and poorly to well stratified stream gravel and probably finer-grained sediment in valleys, west of the Dakota hogback, in the eastern part of the map area. Clasts are commonly of Precambrian rock, but locally are derived from nearby sedimentary rocks; many of the clasts are weathered. Calcium carbonate cement is locally abundant (Braddock, Wohlford, and Connor, 1988; Courtwright and Braddock, 1989). Deposits near Table Mountain are about 18 m and locally 24 m above Boxelder Creek and about 12 m above some of its tributary streams. Deposits west of Livermore, Colo., are about 24 m and 37 m above the North Fork Cache la Poudre River and about 24, 37, 60, and 85 m above some of its tributary streams. Unit locally includes fan deposits (Qf) and pediment deposits (Qp). Deposits of unit Qg are a potential source of fill and road subbase material. Estimated thickness is 3–15 m

This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Workman and others, 2018, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3399). 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. The rock named at the top of this page comes from the public geology of this area; this card is the map's answer. Every crag on this unit: Gravelly stream alluvium. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1907

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1907. 17 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1907 USGS sheet covering Hewlett Gulch — **USGS 1:125000-scale Quadrangle for Livermore, CO 1907** · U.S. Geological Survey · 1907 · 1:125,000 sheet
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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, 1907 to 1980: USGS topoView.

In print since 1877

1877 Geologic Map of Colorado (Hayden), high-resolution scan · F. V. Hayden; scan by the Colorado Geological Survey · 1877

The whole-state sheet of the 1877 atlas, scanned at full resolution by the state survey and free to download.

Colorado Geological Survey (publication HM-01-04) · Public domain · read it
Geological and geographical atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory · F. V. Hayden, U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories · 1877

The first geology anyone drew of this ground. Hayden's survey mapped the state in the 1870s; these are the sheets, with the rock units coloured as they understood them then.

Internet Archive (Brigham Young University copy) · Public domain · read it

Free to read: public domain or government work. About Fort Collins as a whole, not this wall. More in the reading room.

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.

After the Explosion of a Ten-Ton Blast above Fort, Collins, Colorado · Keystone View Company · 1908 · stereograph
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Big Thompson Canyon. Loveland, Fort Collins and Estes Park Road, Estes Park, Colo. · 1908 · postcard
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Exploding a Ten-Ton Blast above Fort Collins, Colorado · Keystone View Company · 1908 · stereograph
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Junction of Loveland and Fort Collins Road, Estes Park, Colo. · 1908 · postcard
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14 year old Henry in the fourth grade of the Rockwood Place School. He is four grades behind, and the teacher says it is on account of the beet work. Location: Fort Collins, Colorado · Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 · 1915
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Girls - one 14 years and two 12 years old in the third grade of the Rockwood Place School. Some children 7 and 8 years old in this grade. Regular age is 8 and 9. Teacher says retardation is due chiefl · Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 · 1915
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Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called "The Pansy Bed" (from the varied and vi · Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 · 1915
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[Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called "The Pansy Bed" (from the varied and v · Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 · 1915
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Harvesting barley with combined harvester and threshing machine drawn by tractor, near Fort Collins, Colo. · Keystone View Company. · 1919 · stereograph
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3 more at the Library of Congress.

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.

Poudre Park, Colorado · Jeffrey Beall · 2017 · 468 m from the crag's map point
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Leucocrinum montanum - Ryan Uncapher 01 · Ryan Uncapher https://www.inaturalist.org/people/uncapher · 2018 · 1,169 m from the crag's map point
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Leucocrinum montanum - Ryan Uncapher 02 · Ryan Uncapher https://www.inaturalist.org/people/uncapher · 2018 · 1,169 m from the crag's map point
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Leucocrinum montanum - Ryan Uncapher 03 · Ryan Uncapher https://www.inaturalist.org/people/uncapher · 2018 · 1,169 m from the crag's map point
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Poudre Canyon, Greyrock trail · Charles Willgren from Fort Collins, Colorado, United States · 2008 · 727 m from the crag's map point
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Routes

1 Glass Slippers V0
Boulder Crag only

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

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Sun today

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Rain & forecast

No recent weather for this crag.

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

Emergency: call 911. Read out your location: Works without signal. If GPS fails, this crag's approximate map point is 40.68948 N, 105.31031 W (Hewlett Gulch). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

The map point for this crag is on land managed by Roosevelt National Forest (federal). It lies inside wild and scenic river, 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.

Nearby, from OpenStreetMap

Toilets: 10 m away (map)
Mapped parking: 22 m away (map)
Campsite: Ansel Watrous, 2,825 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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