San Luis Valley
360 routes and 53 boulder problems at 32 crags. "San Luis 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 23 of these 32; the rest say nothing rather than guess. Sun and shade by season ranks the ones we know.
At a glance
- Crags sit between 7,883 and 9,305 ft (elevation known for 32 of 32).
- Rock, where known (31 of 32 crags): basalt & volcanic (25), sandstone (6).
- Mapped geology under these crags (32 of 32 read off the geologic map): ash-flow tuff of main volcanic sequence (25), pre-ash-flow andesitic lavas, breccias, tuffs, and conglomerates (6), modern alluvium (1).
- The USGS has mapped this ground since 1914; 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 11.
- Sun and shade:
- In the shade on a summer afternoon (2)
- That are shady in the morning and sunny later (5)
- That stay shady almost all day in summer (1)
- High enough to be cool in summer (3)
- In the sun on a winter afternoon (17)
- In the sun all day in winter (13)
- That catch the morning sun in spring (15)
- In the afternoon sun in autumn (17)
From the archives
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Penitente Canyon
Rock Garden
Promised Land, The
- Main Wall43 routes · faces S · Ash-flow tuff of main volcanic sequence · 8,454 ft
- Frobidden Land7 routes · faces S · Ash-flow tuff of main volcanic sequence · 8,335 ft
- Non Dairy Nut Cheese Wall4 routes · faces S · Ash-flow tuff of main volcanic sequence · 8,355 ft
- West Side4 routes · faces S · Ash-flow tuff of main volcanic sequence · 8,469 ft
- Meadow Muffin3 routes · faces S · Ash-flow tuff of main volcanic sequence · 8,414 ft
- No Man's Land2 routes · faces S · Ash-flow tuff of main volcanic sequence · 8,446 ft
- The View Wall1 route · faces S · Ash-flow tuff of main volcanic sequence · 8,564 ft
Witches' Canyon
Big Meadows
Pharcyde, The
Quarry, The
Alamosa Canyon aka Heavy Metal
Manassa
- Lefty5 routes · faces S · Pre-ash-flow andesitic lavas, breccias, tuffs, and conglomerates · 8,454 ft
- Kokopelli2 routes · faces S · Pre-ash-flow andesitic lavas, breccias, tuffs, and conglomerates · 8,567 ft
- Robust2 routes · faces S · Pre-ash-flow andesitic lavas, breccias, tuffs, and conglomerates · 8,351 ft
- Espresso1 route · faces SW · Pre-ash-flow andesitic lavas, breccias, tuffs, and conglomerates · 8,285 ft
- Goat Wall1 route · faces S · Pre-ash-flow andesitic lavas, breccias, tuffs, and conglomerates · 8,429 ft
Stone Quarry, The
Sidewinder Canyon
English Valley
Breakfast Boulders
Rohan
Rattler Cliff
Flag Rock
La Garita Creek
Every crag here comes from the open catalogue or a cited guidebook; see Sources & licences. Counts are the current build's.