Riggs' Hill Central
49 boulder problems · clastic (Brushy Basin Shale Member of the Morrison Formation, with shale, siltstone) · 4,824 ft
What's here
VB to V8, mostly around V0.
Counted from the 49 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) 8 Position on wall known 31 Crag only 10
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at The Return of the Native, The House of Asterion, Junc Town Delinquent (3 climbs, about 90 seconds on Wandering Wall) would place up to 21 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
Brushy Basin Shale Member of the Morrison Formation (Brushy Basin Shale Member) — clastic; shale; siltstone. Late Jurassic, about 153 to 145 million years old.
Gray, pale-green, red, and light-purple mudstone and siltstone, a few lenses of gray sandstone, limestone, and conglomerate. Thickness 200-300 ft.
This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Day and others, 1999, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-0427). 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. Every crag on this unit: Brushy Basin Shale Member of the Morrison Formation. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1934
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1934. 17 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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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, 1934 to 1981: 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
Geological and geographical atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory · F. V. Hayden, U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories · 1877
Free to read: public domain or government work. About Grand Junction Area as a whole, not this wall. More in the reading room.
Routes
Copper Boom Boulder
- 1 Shamwow Infomercial V1-2
- 2 V1- V1-
Grater Block, The
- 1 Kiss My Cheese Breath V2
Mental Recovery Block
- 1 Late Night Diner V5
- 2 Dead Point V2-
Phoenix Boulder
- 1 Austinite Orgy V2+
- 2 V2-Why You Don't Bake and Drink V2
- 3 Metaphorical 69 V3-
Red Mirage Boulder
- 1 Stop the Steal! V1
Wandering Wall
- 1 The Return of the Native V3
- 2 Tlön V0-
- 3 Uqbar V2
- 4 Orbis V3
- 5 Tertius V3
- 6 Ephedra (Left) V0-
- 7 Ephedra (Center) V1
- 8 Ephedra (Right) V1+
- 9 The Garden of Forking Paths V0+
- 10 Averroes's Search V1
- 11 The Shape of the Sword V0+
- 12 The Circular Ruins V0
- 13 The House of Asterion V0
- 14 The Lottery in Babylon V0-
- 15 The Secret Miracle V0+
- 16 Blue Tigers V3+
- 17 Ulrikke V0
- 18 Two Kings, Two Labyrinths V2+
- 19 The Zahir V1-2
- 20 The Aleph V2
- 21 The Book of Sand V0
- 22 The Immortal V3
- 23 The Other V3
- 24 Junc Town Delinquent V4
Elsewhere at this crag
- Abscess V3
- Black Friday Boogie V2-3
- Blocky Arete V0
- Corner Cafe V6+
- Crimptastic V0+
- Eye of Providence East V0-
- Eye of Providence North V1
- Eye of Providence South V0
- Intimidater V3
- Kynetics V1-2
- North Providence Arete V1
- Peregrinus V8
- Philipine Cuisine V3+
- San Diego Baby Makin' V3+
- The Standup Comedian V2-3
- The Womanizer V0
Also within 3 km
- Escondido Circle147 m · 12 boulder problems · 4,722 ft
- Riggs' Hill West306 m · 1 route and 19 boulder problems · 4,889 ft
- Riggs' Hill East327 m · 46 boulder problems · 4,725 ft
- Water Tower Hill1,459 m · 17 boulder problems · 4,786 ft · South Camp
- Canyon Rim Drive2,185 m · 9 boulder problems · 4,866 ft · South Camp
- Red Canyon2,539 m · 6 routes · 4,877 ft · Colorado National Monument
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
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
- 262 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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