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Saxon Rock

5 routes · Silver Plume Granite · 8,485 ft

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What's here

5.7 to 5.12, with no single grade dominating.

  1. 1 5.7
  2. 1 5.9
  3. 1 5.10
  4. 1 5.11
  5. 1 5.12

Counted from the 5 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 5 

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 South Face, The Outlaw (2 climbs, about 60 seconds) 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

Silver Plume Granite. Mesoproterozoic, about 1,600 to 1,000 million years old.

Gray to pinkish-gray, medium- to coarsegrained, equigranular, seriate, or porphyritic, massive to flow-foliated, biotite-muscovite peraluminous syenogranite and monzogranite. Porphyritic varieties contain tabular microcline phenocrysts. Locally includes muscovite-bearing pegmatite, alaskite, and aplite. Muscovite in equivalent rocks north of quadrangle is almost entirely subsolidus, indicating that it formed during retrograde crystallization (J.C. Cole, written commun., 2005). Rb-Sr whole-rock age is 1,409±40 Ma (Hedge, 1969); preliminary U-Pb zircon ages are 1,424±6 Ma (W.R. Premo, unpub. data, 2005) and 1,422 Ma (no error given; Graubard and Mattison, 1990)

This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Kellogg and others, 2008, USGS Geologic Investigations Series 3000). 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: Silver Plume Granite. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1903

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1903. 29 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1903 USGS sheet covering Saxon Rock
USGS 1:62500-scale Quadrangle for Georgetown, CO 1903 · U.S. Geological Survey · 1903 · 1:62,500 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, 1903 to 1983: USGS topoView.

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.

Georgetown & vicinity
Georgetown & vicinity · Chamberlain, W. G. (William Gunnison) · 1878 · stereograph
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Georgetown, Colorado. The bear dance · Kilburn Brothers · 1890
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Georgetown, Colo., U. S. A. · Keystone View Company · 1898 · stereograph
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Georgetown, Colorado · International View Company · 1900 · stereograph
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The Famous Loop, Georgetown, Colorado · International View Company · 1900 · stereograph
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The Great Loop, Georgetown, Col. · The Universal Photo Art Company · 1900 · stereograph
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Georgetown, Colo. · Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · 1901
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The Loop, Georgetown, Colo · 1901 · stereograph
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Georgetown Loop · 1904 · postcard
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The "Loop", Georgetown, Colorado · Standard Scenic Company · 1906 · stereograph
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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.

Clear Creek, Georgetown, CO 9-24-13 (10632472113)
Clear Creek, Georgetown, CO 9-24-13 (10632472113) · inkknife_2000 (7.5 million views +) · 2013 · 355 m from the crag's map point
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Cobra, Georgetown, CO 9-24-13zm (10632281625) · inkknife_2000 (7.5 million views +) · 2013 · 679 m from the crag's map point
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Confluence of Clear Creek and South Clear Creek in Georgetown, Colorado · Jeffrey Beall · 2024 · 188 m from the crag's map point
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McClellan House · Jeffrey Beall · 2011 · 226 m from the crag's map point
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Capital Prize Mines Burrow Racing Georgetown CO 2026 · CapitalPrize · 2026 · 259 m from the crag's map point
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Georgetown, CO 9-24-13a (10632471933) · inkknife_2000 (7.5 million views +) · 2013 · 261 m from the crag's map point
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Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Georgetown Colorado · Always dreamin · 2021 · 297 m from the crag's map point
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1st Presbyterian Church, Georgetown, CO 9-24-13ma (10632203145) · inkknife_2000 (7.5 million views +) · 2013 · 317 m from the crag's map point
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Clear Creek, Georgetown, CO 9-24-13mb (10632235956) · inkknife_2000 (7.5 million views +) · 2013 · 330 m from the crag's map point
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Georgetown, CO 9-24-13f (10632219074) · inkknife_2000 (7.5 million views +) · 2013 · 339 m from the crag's map point
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Historic Georgetown, Colorado · Tony Webster · 2018 · 365 m from the crag's map point
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Argentine Street - panoramio (1) · Thomson M · 2016 · 421 m from the crag's map point
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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
sun 12:30-15:20
Wall faces W (USGS elevation). Shade from the surrounding terrain is counted.
Deep terrain: the skyline averages 20° above horizontal, so the sun has to climb well clear of the rim before it reaches this wall.
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Rain & forecast
No recent weather for this crag.

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 39.72036 N, 105.69100 W (Saxon Rock). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

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

Toilets
693 m away (map)
Mapped parking
534 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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