Deep Cut Guide

The rock

What the geologic map says is under each crag's point: 180 map units across 2,246 of 2,256 crags. A climber says granite or sandstone; the map says which granite, and how old.

Read at each crag's map point from the most detailed sheet Macrostrat serves there (1:100,000 along the Front Range, 1:500,000 elsewhere). A point can be a few hundred metres from the rock and a contact line is 100 to 500 m wide on the ground, so a wall can be the neighbouring unit; each crag page says which sheet answered.

Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps. Where a guidebook or OpenStreetMap names a crag's rock, that word keeps precedence on the crag page; this is the map's answer, stated as one.