Grand County / Fraser Valley
53 routes and 30 boulder problems at 14 crags. "Grand County / Fraser Valley" is the catalogue's own grouping — a town, a canyon or a corridor, whichever climbers actually say.
Which way a wall faces is known for 3 of these 14; the rest say nothing rather than guess. Sun and shade by season ranks the ones we know.
At a glance
- Crags sit between 8,169 and 11,245 ft (elevation known for 14 of 14).
- Rock, where known (7 of 14 crags): gneiss, schist & quartzite (5), granite (1), sandstone (1).
- Mapped geology under these crags (14 of 14 read off the geologic map): biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite (5), till of pinedale age (5), coalmont fm (1) and 3 more units.
- The USGS has mapped this ground since 1915; each crag page shows its oldest sheet.
- No crag here is within 1.5 km of an RTD stop. Mapped toilets within 2 km of 5.
- Sun and shade:
From the archives
Photographs of Grand County / Fraser Valley held by the Library of Congress, oldest first, each marked "no known restrictions on publication" by the Library. Shown from their servers, not copied here.
Town of Grand Lake, Colo. · Mile High Photo Co. · 1911
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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Hurd Creek Crag
B-Lot Boulder
Grand Lake
Vasquez Road
New Don Wall (aka Upper Hurd Basin)
Trail Creek Crag
Windy Gap
Willow Creek Pass Fins -- 99 Mile Rock
Berthoud Pass Summit
Buchanan Creek
Mary Jane Road
Every crag here comes from the open catalogue or a cited guidebook; see Sources & licences. Counts are the current build's.