Deep Cut Guide

Main Canyon: Unaweep Granite

445 routes and 2 boulder problems · granite and gneiss · 7,036 ft

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Help locate these routes: survey the wall

What's here

5.2 to 5.13, mostly around 5.10.

  1. 1 5.2
  2. 3 5.3
  3. 2 5.4
  4. 2 5.5
  5. 12 5.6
  6. 25 5.7
  7. 57 5.8
  8. 67 5.9
  9. 132 5.10
  10. 117 5.11
  11. 23 5.12
  12. 4 5.13

Counted from the 445 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) 4  Position on wall known 408  Crag only 35 

The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Upper Deck 0.5, Don Juan, Porticullis, Harmony Dihedrals, Sweet Sunday Serenade, Right of Trash Can Alley (6 climbs, about 180 seconds on Sunday Wall) would place up to 53 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

Granitic rocks of 1400-m.y. age group (Silver Plume Granite, Sherman Granite, Cripple Creek Granite, St. Kevin Granite, Vernal Mesa Granite, Curecanti Granite, Eolus Granite, Trimble Granite) — alkali feldspar granite, granite, minor quartz monzonite. Mesoproterozoic, about 1,600 to 1,000 million years old.

Includes Silver Plume, Sherman, Cripple Creek, St. Kevin, Vernal Mesa, Curecanti, Eolus, and Trimble Granites or Quartz Monzonites; also, San Isabel Granite of Boyer (1962) and unnamed granitic rocks

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: Granitic rocks of 1400-m.y. age group. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1956

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1956. 15 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1956 USGS sheet covering Main Canyon: Unaweep Granite
USGS 1:250000-scale Quadrangle for Moab, UT 1956 · U.S. Geological Survey · 1956 · 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, 1956 to 1980: USGS topoView.

In print since 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

Photos from climbers

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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 08:50-14:10
Wall faces SE (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
0 mm of rain in the last 48 hours.
11-11 54°/36° · 0.0 mm · 8 mph · pm storms 0% 11-12 56°/39° · 0.0 mm · 10 mph · pm storms 0% 11-13 51°/39° · 0.0 mm · 10 mph · pm storms 0%
Open-Meteo, fetched 2026-11-11 15:40 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 38.81832 N, 108.60765 W (Main Canyon: Unaweep Granite). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

The map point for this crag is on land managed by Access Fund (non-governmental organization), in Unaweep Canyon. It lies inside recreation or education easement.

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 Access Fund'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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