The Stripe

15 routes · Leadville, Gilman, Dyer, Parting, and Sawatch Fms in west-central and south-central. Leadville Limestone, Ouray Limestone, Elbert Fm, and Ignacio Quartzite in far southwest · 9,240 ft

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What's here

5.7 to 5.12, mostly around 5.10.

3 5.7
1 5.8
2 5.9
6 5.10
1 5.11
2 5.12

Counted from the 15 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 15

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 The Green Room, Black Stallion, Silverton Politics (3 climbs, about 90 seconds) would place up to 12 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

Leadville, Gilman, Dyer, Parting, and Sawatch Fms in west-central and south-central. Leadville Limestone, Ouray Limestone, Elbert Fm, and Ignacio Quartzite in far southwest (Leadville Formation, Gilman Formation, Dyer Formation, Parting Formation, Sawatch Formation, Ouray Limestone, Elbert Formation, Ignacio Quartzite) — limestone, dolostone, quartzite, minor sandstone, shale. Paleozoic, about 501 to 359 million years old.

Elbert Fm: shale and sandstone.

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: Leadville, Gilman, Dyer, Parting, and Sawatch Fms in west-central and south-central. Leadville Limestone, Ouray Limestone, Elbert Fm, and Ignacio Quartzite in far southwest. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1897

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1897. 30 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1897 USGS sheet covering The Stripe — **USGS 1:62500-scale Quadrangle for Silverton, CO 1897** · U.S. Geological Survey · 1897 · 1:62,500 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, 1897 to 1982: USGS topoView.

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.

Silverton Colorado from Highway 550 · Tony Webster · 2022 · 366 m from the crag's map point
Wikimedia Commons · CC BY · the record · placed by its coordinates

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