Keystone a.k.a. Montezuma
107 routes and 45 boulder problems at 22 crags. "Keystone a.k.a. Montezuma" 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 19 of these 22; the rest say nothing rather than guess. Sun and shade by season ranks the ones we know.
At a glance
- Crags sit between 9,276 and 10,306 ft (elevation known for 22 of 22).
- Rock, where known (14 of 22 crags): granite (9), gneiss, schist & quartzite (4), sandstone (1).
- Mapped geology under these crags (22 of 22 read off the geologic map): rocks of montezuma stock and vicinity, monzogranite porphyry (9), hornblende-plagioclase gneiss and amphibolite (4), hornfels (4) and 3 more units.
- The USGS has mapped this ground since 1924; 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 6.
- Sun and shade:
Hummingbird Boulders
- Oasis Boulder Area13 boulder problems · faces SW · Hornfels · 9,945 ft
- Main Boulder, Hummingbird Boulders6 routes and 4 boulder problems · faces SW · Rocks of Montezuma stock and vicinity, Monzogranite porphyry · 9,813 ft
- Seam Boulder5 boulder problems · faces SW · Rocks of Montezuma stock and vicinity, Monzogranite porphyry · 9,813 ft
- Hero Boulder4 boulder problems · faces SW · Rocks of Montezuma stock and vicinity, Monzogranite porphyry · 9,743 ft
- Trail Boulder4 boulder problems · faces SW · Rocks of Montezuma stock and vicinity, Monzogranite porphyry · 9,712 ft
- Choss 30 aka 30 Rock aka Pimpin' Ain't Easy2 boulder problems · faces SW · Rocks of Montezuma stock and vicinity, Monzogranite porphyry · 9,813 ft
- Humming Bird Boulder No. 2 (Tim's Finn)1 route and 1 boulder problem · faces SW · Rocks of Montezuma stock and vicinity, Monzogranite porphyry · 9,544 ft
- Hummingbird Boulder #31 route · faces SW · Till of Pinedale age · 9,893 ft
- Hummingbird Boulder #41 route · faces SW · Hornfels · 9,944 ft
Haus Rock
Morning Glory Wall
Zuma Rock
Swan Mountain Road
Loveland Pass Area
Alpenglow Wall, The
Landfill Road
Porcupine Rock
Swan Mountain Cliffs
Alpenglow Satellite Wall
Wanderer's Wall
Every crag here comes from the open catalogue or a cited guidebook; see Sources & licences. Counts are the current build's.