Thunder Ridge
139 routes and 11 boulder problems · granite (Pikes Peak Granite) · 8,002 ft
What's here
5.5 to 5.14, mostly around 5.10.
VB to V9, with no single grade dominating.
Counted from the 150 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) 1 Position on wall known 144 Crag only 5
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Rumba de Roberto, Gator Boy, Pat Me'groinagin (3 climbs, about 90 seconds on Brown Wall, The) would place up to 22 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.
The guidebook for this area
South Platte Climbing: The Thunder Ridge and Turkey Rock Edition - Jason Haas - 2014 every crag it covers
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Rock, from the geologic map
Rocks of Pikes Peak Batholith (1000-m.y. age group) (Pikes Peak Granite, Mount Rosa Granite, Windy Point Granite, Redskin Granite) — granite, alkali feldspar granite, minor quartz monzonite. Mesoproterozoic, about 1,600 to 1,000 million years old.
Includes Pikes Peak, Mount Rosa, Windy Point, and Redskin Granites and unnamed 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: Rocks of Pikes Peak Batholith (1000-m.y. age group). Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1893
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1893. 25 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.
USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain · the record · placed by its coordinates
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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, 1893 to 1994: USGS topoView.
In print since 1877
1877 Geologic Map of Colorado (Hayden), high-resolution scan · F. V. Hayden; scan by the Colorado Geological Survey · 1877
Geological and geographical atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory · F. V. Hayden, U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories · 1877
Free to read: public domain or government work. About South Platte as a whole, not this wall. More in the reading room.
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.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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Routes
Alligator Lounge, The
- 1 Wave Goodbye 5.12+
- 2 Heels over Head 5.11+
- 3 Feel the Void 5.10+
- 4 Altered State 5.10+
- 5 Let's Do It Again, Daddy 5.8
- 6 Good and Plenty 5.8
- 7 Optical Illusion 5.11
- 8 Big Rhonda 5.11+
- 9 Lounge Lizard 5.10
- 10 Lola and the Magic Closet 5.10d
- 11 Evil Genius 5.10+
- 12 Wild Thing 5.11
- 13 Urge Overkill 5.11
- 14 The Slot 5.9
- 15 Gates of Karakum 5.10-
- 16 Slather 5.9+
- 17 Lator Gator 5.9
- 18 Spank Me 5.10+
Arch Rock
- 1 Eternal Edges 5.10
- 2 Naked Dave lives to Smoke Again 5.10
- 3 Three Trees 5.7
- 4 Horns, What Horns? 5.8
Battlement Crag
- 1 In the Line of Fire 5.10
Black and Tan Wall
- 1 Black and Tan 5.12a
- 2 [Redacted] 5.11a
- 3 Boilermaker 5.10+
Brown Wall, The
- 1 Rumba de Roberto 5.10b
- 2 Stegosaur 5.10c
- 3 Stegamite 5.5
- 4 The Braille Trail 5.12
- 5 Smausser Traverse Thing... 5.11-
- 6 Game of Drones 5.12d
- 7 The Spark 5.13a
- 8 The Shadow 5.12
- 9 The Penetrators 5.12
- 10 [Redacted] 5.11
- 11 Gay Blade 5.11-
- 12 Zorro 5.10+
- 13 Gator Boy 5.11
- 14 Reptile 5.10
- 15 Reptile Tears 5.10+
- 16 Crocodile Tears 5.11+
- 17 Sampler Plate 5.12-
- 18 The Legacy 5.14a
- 19 Thunderstruck 5.13
- 20 Chocolate Thunder 5.12-
- 21 Fractured Fairytale 5.10
- 22 New Vector 5.11
- 23 Dragonfly 5.8
- 24 May Divorce Be With You 5.11+
- 25 Pat Me'groinagin 5.10
Cat Scratch Wall
- 1 Reptillian Hairball 5.11a
- 2 Cat Scratch 5.10
- 3 Scratching Post 5.10-
- 4 Garguy 5.7
- 5 Later Gator 5.9+
For Real Canyon, The
- 1 Nice Jugs 5.10+
- 2 Around the Corner aka Unf.. Real 5.10
- 3 Reality Check 5.12c
- 4 The Real Deal 5.13c
- 5 Is This For Real? 5.10
- 6 The Real Thing 5.12b
- 7 Unknown Slab/Ramp 5.7
- 8 Unknown Arete 5.7
- 9 Futile Attraction 5.11+
- 10 So Wild 5.10d
- 11 Ramp -o -Stone 5.11+
- 12 Real Black Velvet 5.11c
- 13 In Your Face 5.11
- 14 Chipmunk Route 5.9
- 15 Super Nova 5.11+
- 16 The Cooler 5.10+
Great Warm-Up Boulder, The
- 1 Glen's Traverse V2-3
- 2 The Hard Finale V2
- 3 Tinman in the Rain V1+
- 4 Warm Weather V1-
- 5 Short, But Warm V2-
Gunky Wall, The
- 1 Double Vision 5.9+
- 2 White Lightning 5.12-
Lumberjack Wall
- 1 Pancake Stack 5.10c
- 2 Blue Ox 5.10b
Meadow Rock aka Cougar Cliff
- 1 The Dark 5.11
- 2 Shade Line 5.10-
Metaphysical Wall
- 1 The Oracle 5.10+
- 2 The Weathered Man 5.10+
- 3 The Prophet 5.10a/b
- 4 Metaphysical 5.10+
- 5 Crystal Ball 5.9+
Outback, The
- 1 Unforgettable Fire 5.9
- 2 The Green Mile 5.9
- 3 Phoenix 5.8
- 4 Half and Half 5.9
- 5 Sour Milk 5.7
Post Office, The
- 1 Heavy Water 5.11
- 2 Powder Monkey 5.11a/b
- 3 Goin' Postal 5.12b
- 4 Stranglehold 5.11-
- 5 Papa's Got a Brand New Crag 5.11
- 6 Bandu 5.12
- 7 Belligerent Bachelor 5.12
- 8 Unnamed 5.12
Quarry, The
- 1 Whale Shark V7
- 2 Smashing 5.11+
- 3 Sidewinder 5.10
- 4 The Waffle 5.9+
- 5 Hang'n Ten on the Wall of Glen 5.10+
- 6 Pulp Friction 5.8+
- 7 No Pressure 5.10+
- 8 Event Horizon 5.11+
- 9 Glenfiddich 5.11+
- 10 Undertow 5.10d
- 11 Not Even 5.12+
- 12 The Rodeo 5.12+
- 13 Bucking Chute 5.11a
- 14 Slippery Nipple 5.10+
- 15 Piece of the Action 5.10
- 16 Bundle of Fleece 5.9
- 17 5.8, My Ass 5.9
- 18 Dig the Groove 5.10
- 19 River Dance 5.8
- 20 Alien Heads 5.9
- 21 Crossed Fingers 5.9
- 22 For Better or Worse 5.9+
- 23 Chockstone Chimney 5.7+
- 24 Practice Roof 5.10+
Seamly Boulder
- 1 Super Gratton V1
- 2 Crazy Train V0
Swamp Corridor
- 1 Bury The Bone 5.11
- 2 Scalamander 5.11-
- 3 Scale Me 5.10-
Wasp Canyon, The
- 1 You are Here 5.10+
- 2 Point of Entry 5.10c
- 3 Scorpion 5.12b
- 4 Starlight 5.12c/d
- 5 Starry G (aka Beyond the Thunderdome?) 5.13a
- 6 Storm 5.12b
- 7 The Stormy G 5.12c
- 8 The G Route 5.12b
- 9 The Raven's Haven 5.10+
- 10 The Expensive Route 5.11+
- 11 Pittsburgh Stubby 5.11+
- 12 Down the Rabbit Hole 5.11+
- 13 W.A.S.P. (What About Some Pesticide?) 5.7
- 14 Bee Positive 5.8+
- 15 Stinger 5.8+
Elsewhere at this crag
- X Marks the Spot 5.11d
- Black Hole 5.8
- Cheat Death V9
- Stupid Silly V-easy
- Unknown V3 V3
Photos from climbers
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Conditions reported
Nothing reported recently.
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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
The map point for this crag is on land managed by Pike National Forest (federal). It lies inside inventoried roadless area, national forest.
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 Pike-San Isabel National Forests land
- Fees
- No entrance fee for the Pike-San Isabel National Forests or the Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands. Fees apply at campgrounds and day-use areas operated by the forest's concessionaire, paid on site.
- Overnight
- On the Leadville, Salida and San Carlos districts of the San Isabel, camping at any location within the same 20-mile radius for more than 14 days in a continuous 30-day period is prohibited. No camping within 100 feet of water outside a developed or designated site.
Read on Pike-San Isabel National Forests'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
- YMCA Camo Shady Brook, 3,970 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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