Deep Cut Guide

Bauhaus Wall

22 routes · limestone (Leadville Limestone) · 7,083 ft

Help locate these routes: survey the wall

What's here

5.11 to 5.14, with no single grade dominating.

  1. 6 5.11
  2. 4 5.12
  3. 10 5.13
  4. 2 5.14

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 Ice Man Cometh, Liquid Culture, Der Squeal (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.

The guidebook for this area

Rifle: A Climber's Guide - Darek Krol - 4th ed. - 2021 every crag it covers

From the publisher

The book has the topos, the descriptions and the local knowledge this page can't. Buying it helps support the people who know the crag best.

Rock, from the geologic map

Leadville Limestone, Gilman Sandstone, Dyer Dolomite, and Parting Fm (Leadville Limestone, Gilman Sandstone, Dyer Dolomite, Parting Formation) — limestone, sandstone, dolostone, minor shale, quartzite. Paleozoic, about 383 to 357 million years old.

Parting Fm: quartzite and shale.

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. 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: Leadville Limestone, Gilman Sandstone, Dyer Dolomite, and Parting Fm. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1906

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1906. 19 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1906 USGS sheet covering Bauhaus Wall
USGS 1:125000-scale Quadrangle for Grand Hogback, CO 1906 · U.S. Geological Survey · 1906 · 1:125,000 sheet
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, 1906 to 1981: USGS topoView.

Routes

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.

Pick a photo from your camera roll rather than taking one here: a picture taken inside a browser usually has no location saved in it, and we check that the photo was taken at this crag before publishing it. Photos of guidebook pages and topos are refused — they're the author's work. By sending one you're letting us publish it.

Nobody reviews these before they appear, so anyone can report one and it's hidden straight away — including you, if you change your mind, and including a photographer who finds their own picture here.

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.

Sun today
Wall direction not known yet.
Rain & forecast
0 mm of rain in the last 48 hours.
11-11 53°/33° · 0.0 mm · 12 mph · pm storms 0% 11-12 56°/40° · 0.0 mm · 8 mph · pm storms 0% 11-13 52°/34° · 0.0 mm · 5 mph · pm storms 0%
Open-Meteo, fetched 2026-11-11 18:41 UTC

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

Emergency: call 911. Read out your location: Works without signal. If GPS fails, this crag's approximate map point is 39.71552 N, 107.69174 W (Bauhaus Wall). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

The map point for this crag is on land managed by City of Rifle (local government), in Rifle Mountain Park. 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 Rifle Mountain Park land

Fees
$10 day pass per vehicle, the same for residents and non-residents. Annual passes are $20 for Rifle residents, $60 for Garfield County residents and $200 for others.
Climbing permit
New bolted routes go through a permitting process that involves the Rifle Climbers Coalition. Nothing is stated as required to climb existing routes.
Overnight
Camping $30 a night including a day pass, or $20 with a valid annual pass. 14-day limit, designated areas only. Quiet hours 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Dogs
Dogs must be on a leash at all times, and owners must pick up and dispose of waste.

Read on Rifle Mountain Park'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

Campsite
Rifle Mountain Park, 1,779 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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