West Slabs
11 routes · Silver Plume Granite · 9,532 ft
What's here
5.5 to 5.12, with no single grade dominating.
Counted from the 11 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 11
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 Shaft, Unknown 5 (2 climbs, about 60 seconds) would place up to 9 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
Silver Plume Granite. Mesoproterozoic, about 1,600 to 1,000 million years old.
Gray to pinkish-gray, medium- to coarsegrained, equigranular, seriate, or porphyritic, massive to flow-foliated, biotite-muscovite peraluminous syenogranite and monzogranite. Porphyritic varieties contain tabular microcline phenocrysts. Locally includes muscovite-bearing pegmatite, alaskite, and aplite. Muscovite in equivalent rocks north of quadrangle is almost entirely subsolidus, indicating that it formed during retrograde crystallization (J.C. Cole, written commun., 2005). Rb-Sr whole-rock age is 1,409±40 Ma (Hedge, 1969); preliminary U-Pb zircon ages are 1,424±6 Ma (W.R. Premo, unpub. data, 2005) and 1,422 Ma (no error given; Graubard and Mattison, 1990)
This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Kellogg and others, 2008, USGS Geologic Investigations Series 3000). 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 100 m wide on the ground, so the wall itself may be the neighbouring unit. Every crag on this unit: Silver Plume Granite. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1903
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1903. 29 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, 1903 to 1983: 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.
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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.
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Routes
Also within 3 km
Straight line between the two crags' map points, each of which can be some way from its rock. For when this wall is full, or the sun has found it.
Photos from climbers
No photos here yet. If you're at the crag, yours would be the first.
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.
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
We don't know who manages this ground: PAD-US doesn't map this point as protected land, which most often means it is private. Find out whose it is before you go.
Nobody has yet read the land manager'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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