Deep Cut Guide

Potty Breaks

2 boulder problems · shale (Lance Fm, with sandstone, coal) · 8,106 ft

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How well located

Position on wall known 2 

No route here has its own point yet. The map pin is the crag. At the wall? Survey it: 30 seconds per route.

Rock, from the geologic map

Lance Fm (Lance Formation) — shale, sandstone, some coal. Maastrichtian, about 72 to 66 million years old.

Shale, sandstone, and minor coal beds; Fox Hills equivalent at base

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: Lance Fm. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1954

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1954. 17 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1954 USGS sheet covering Potty Breaks
USGS 1:250000-scale Quadrangle for Craig, CO 1954 · U.S. Geological Survey · 1954 · 1:250,000 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, 1954 to 2000: 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.

Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Moffat Road · Sawdey, E. F. · 1909
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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[Lincoln Avenue in Steamboat Springs, Colorado] · Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 · 1941
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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Hidden as soon as you tell us, everywhere it appears, before anyone reviews it.

Routes

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 07:30-16:20
Wall faces S (USGS elevation). Shade from the surrounding terrain is counted.
Partly enclosed: the skyline averages 8° above horizontal.
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 40.84930 N, 107.20200 W (Potty Breaks). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

The map point for this crag is on land managed by Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust (non-governmental organization), in Pilgrim Ranch.

Worth checking first. PAD-US records public access to this unit as “closed” (according to NCED, 2023). That is about getting onto the unit at all, not about climbing, and we have not checked it against Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust's own page.

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.

Nobody has yet read Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust'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.

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