Deep Cut Guide

Nine Mile Hill

72 routes and 2,140 boulder problems · granite and gneiss · 5,332 ft

Take me there Routes ↓ Directions

Help locate these routes: survey the wall

What's here

5.5 to 5.13, mostly around 5.10.

  1. 3 5.5
  2. 1 5.6
  3. 5 5.7
  4. 14 5.8
  5. 13 5.9
  6. 22 5.10
  7. 10 5.11
  8. 2 5.12
  9. 2 5.13

VB to V10, mostly around V2.

  1. 12 VB
  2. 172 V0
  3. 372 V1
  4. 568 V2
  5. 549 V3
  6. 289 V4
  7. 80 V5
  8. 42 V6
  9. 22 V7
  10. 20 V8
  11. 7 V9
  12. 7 V10

Counted from the 2,212 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) 316  Position on wall known 1831  Crag only 65 

The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Roses Rock, Pocket Reference, Bust'n Out (3 climbs, about 90 seconds on Four Blocks Crag) would place up to 13 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

Dakota Sandstone and Burro Canyon Fm (Dakota Sandstone, Burro Canyon Formation) — sandstone, shale, conglomerate. Early Cretaceous, about 125 to 100 million years old.

Sandstone, shale, and conglomerate. In northwest and west-central: Lower Cretaceous. In southwest: Lower and Upper Cretaceous.

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: Dakota Sandstone and Burro Canyon Fm. 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. 16 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1956 USGS sheet covering Nine Mile Hill
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.

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.

Ninemile Hill - Flickr - aspidoscelis (2)
Ninemile Hill - Flickr - aspidoscelis (2) · Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM · 2019 · 597 m from the crag's map point
Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · the record · placed by its coordinates
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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 12:40-16:40
Wall faces W (USGS elevation). Shade from the surrounding terrain is counted.
Deep terrain: the skyline averages 26° above horizontal, so the sun has to climb well clear of the rim before it reaches this wall.
Crags by sun and shade →
Rain & forecast
0 mm of rain in the last 48 hours.
11-11 60°/38° · 0.0 mm · 11 mph · pm storms 0% 11-12 62°/45° · 0.0 mm · 8 mph · pm storms 0% 11-13 60°/44° · 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 38.93510 N, 108.48500 W (Nine Mile Hill). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

The map point for this crag is on land managed by Bureau of Land Management (federal), in Grand Junction Field Office. It lies inside national conservation area.

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.

Rules for all Bureau of Land Management land

Fees
Developed campgrounds are fee sites: at Shelf Road, Sand Gulch is $20 a night for an individual site and $40 for a group site, with no drinking water, hook-ups or trash service. Where a fee area is posted, you must register and pay within 30 minutes of entering it.
Overnight
Camping more than 14 days in any 30-day period at any one location is prohibited, including in a campground, and afterwards you must move at least 30 air miles. Personal property may not be left unattended anywhere on public land for more than 48 hours.

Read on Bureau of Land Management's own pages, checked 2026-09-29 by John Crawford. What they require, in full, or their own climbing page. These apply to the manager's whole holding; anything specific to this crag is above.

Nearby, from OpenStreetMap

Campsite
Unaweep Rim Camp 1, 4,698 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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