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The Dark Side Bouldering

Climbing Area Map

Areas in The Dark Side

Arrowhead Arete Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 15 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 15

Caves, The 0 / 0 / 0 / 11 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 11

Cube Area, The 0 / 0 / 0 / 11 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 11

Dasani Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 12 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 12

MoSo Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 7 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 7

Rock Staircase Area 0 / 0 / 1 / 5 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 5

Schoolyard Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 6 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 6

Squirming Coil Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 17 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 17

Super Phun Thyme 0 / 0 / 0 / 1 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 1

Tofurkey Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 6 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 6

Unsorted Problems 0 / 0 / 0 / 1 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 1

Warm-up Traverse Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 18 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 18

Elevation:	5,918 ft
GPS:	39.651, -105.18801 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Shared By:	Leo Paik on Feb 16, 2002 · Updates
Admins:	Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monty, Monomaniac, Tyler KC Page Updates (admin only)

Description

Across from the road from the standard Morrison bouldering area is a hill side of beautiful boulders that draws the eye as you repeat the same old standard Morrison problems. This area gained some recent attention from the video, Who Got the Props? The ultra-classic, Breashear's Crack II, draws plenty of attention. Shady lines for summer bouldering abound in this newly (?) explored area. Perhaps you can find a Holloway or Gill problem here.... First ascent lines await your eyes and touch.

Prompted from a suggestion from jmapping, we are reorganizing this into these subareas:

Arrowhead Arete Area
The Caves
The Cube Area
Rockstaircase Area
Rupture Area
The Schoolyard Area
Squirming Coil Area
Warm-up Traverse Area (Behind the Cube)

Obviously, some of these problems are yet to be sorted, and some may be missorted. Any help with the reorganization is appreciated.

Getting There

Go to Morrison, look south of the road. This hill side is covered with various shady boulders.

Per Heath Glasgow: from C-470, take exit 4 for Morrison following CO 8 / Bear Creek Ave. west (towards the town of Morrison). After 250 yards, turn left onto Soda Lakes Road. Park in a dirt pullout on the right. If this lot is full, park along the road or at another pullout a bit further down on the left. If there are no spots along Soda Lake Rd., try the Park & Ride by the gas station (across CO 8).

Find the trailhead just past the first dirt pullout following it uphill to the boulders.

Rattlesnakes

Onery rattlesnakes have been known to frequent this area. Beware!

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Classic Climbing Routes at The Dark Side

Mountain Project's determination of the classic, most popular, highest rated climbing routes in this area.

V1 5 133 ● Gypsy Devil Boulder Warm-up Traverse Area
V1 5 224 ● In the Beginning Boulder Cube Area
V1 5 PG13 84 ● Unknown -Warm up (The Jake) Boulder Squirming Coil Area
V1+ 5 117 ● Part of A Warmup Traverse Boulder Warm-up Traverse Area
V2- 5+ 84 ● Bearded Lady (aka Hand Crack) Boulder Squirming Coil Area
V3 6A 314 ● Breashear's Crack II Boulder Cube Area
V3 6A 97 ● Done Deal Dyno Boulder Cube Area
V3 6A 77 ● Super Phun Thyme Boulder Cube Area
V3 6A 66 ● Where is My Gummy Bear? (what my… Boulder Cube Area
V4 6B 90 ● Rite of the Devil Boulder Warm-up Traverse Area
V4+ 6B+ 119 ● Slots Boulder Warm-up Traverse Area
V5 6C 152 ● Squirming Coil Boulder Squirming Coil Area
V5 6C 182 ● Double Arete Boulder Squirming Coil Area
V5-6 6C+ 144 ● Dasani Boulder Dasani Area
V6 7A R 57 ● Rupture Boulder Caves > Rupture Cave