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Bambi's Trail Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 11 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 11
Beach, The 0 / 0 / 0 / 15 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 15
Candy Man Boulder, The 0 / 0 / 0 / 3 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 3
Duffy's Aretes 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
Far Side, The 0 / 0 / 0 / 13 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 13
Kill Hill Bouldering Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 13 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 13
Other Side, The 0 / 0 / 0 / 15 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 15
Pre-teen Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 2 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 2
Quarter Inch Master Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 5 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 5
Roof Crack, The 0 / 0 / 0 / 2 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 2
Son of Sam Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
Stash, The 0 / 0 / 0 / 18 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 18
Supermodel Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 1 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 1
White Lightning Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 4 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 4
Elevation: 8,136 ft
GPS: 38.497, -106.948 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Shared By: Orphaned on May 19, 2010
Admins: Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monty, Monomaniac

Description

The bouldering at Hartman Rocks can be best described as "limitless". The thousands of acres at Hartman Rocks contain some of the best bouldering in the state of Colorado (yes, the whole state). Similar to bishop and Joshua Tree, the boulders at Hartmans will definately do a number on your fingertips. The problems run the spectrum with technical slabs, powerful crimping, splitter cracks, improbable sequences on 'non-holds', and some of the best mind-bending highballs around. The Areas and Problems listed here barely scratch the surface of the potential at Hartmans. With so many boulders and hoards of new problems going up almost daily it can be hard to keep track of it all. Please use this page to post up new and old problems so we can start documenting this amazing climbing resource.

Bouldering at Hartmans is far from 'new' If any old-timers out there have any good first ascent info or other entertaining stories, let 'em rip!

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Because Hartman Rocks is such a large area and directions can be confusing, try to post good beta photos of the areas to make their identification easier.

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Mountain Project's determination of the classic, most popular, highest rated climbing routes in this area.
V0 4 PG13
 8
● Chief Broken Wing
Boulder
Quarter Inch Master Area
V3 6A R
 6
● Water Groove
Boulder
Kill Hill Bould… > Water Groove Area (to…
V3 6A
 9
● White Lightning
Boulder
White Lightning Area
V3 6A
 3
● Madagascar
Boulder
Stash
V3 6A
 4
● Straight Razor
Boulder
Stash
V3+ 6A+
 7
● Quarter Inch Master
Boulder
Quarter Inch Master Area
V4 6B
 3
● Raleigh Arete
Boulder
Quarter Inch Master Area
V6 7A
 5
● Jaws Arete
Boulder
Quarter Inch Master Area
V7-8 7B
 5
● Rimjob
Boulder
Quarter Inch Master Area
Route Name Location Star Rating Difficulty Date
● Chief Broken Wing Quarter Inch Master Area
 8
V0 4 PG13 Boulder
● Water Groove Kill Hill Bould… > Water Groove Area (to…
 6
V3 6A R Boulder
● White Lightning White Lightning Area
 9
V3 6A Boulder
● Madagascar Stash
 3
V3 6A Boulder
● Straight Razor Stash
 4
V3 6A Boulder
● Quarter Inch Master Quarter Inch Master Area
 7
V3+ 6A+ Boulder
● Raleigh Arete Quarter Inch Master Area
 3
V4 6B Boulder
● Jaws Arete Quarter Inch Master Area
 5
V6 7A Boulder
● Rimjob Quarter Inch Master Area
 5
V7-8 7B Boulder
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Reedrombo
Home is where you park it
Reedrombo   Home is where you park it
So I'm from South Dakota and I'm here in Gunnison couch surfing and decided to head up to Hartman just to see what the bouldering was like. I hiked around and found this "arch-like" boulder behind white lightning and to the left. It was an extremely overhung boulder and pretty chalked up. The route appeared to climb from bottom left and traversed right under the arch before moving up and topping out on some slopers out of the arch. What route is this? great find! I'd rate it a V3-4 but I'd like to see what the local beta says. Jun 7, 2010
pedropeacock
pedropeacock  
It actually is an old (18 years or so) problem of Town Council member Jonathon Houck called "HOFNAR"...it's awesome to see all the psyche on Hartmans and climbing in the valley in general. Remember while you are naming your recent send, there has been three decades of climbing out in the crumbly wonderlands of Hartmans and surrounding hills by a quiet crew of old crushers. Peace! Apr 16, 2011
YDPL8S
Santa Monica, Ca.
YDPL8S   Santa Monica, Ca.
I agree, Pedropeacock!, although it's actually probably more than 4 decades. I was living out there every afternoon in 1972. By then, people had established tons of stuff already, long before I started applying flesh to that ragged, feel-so-good stone. Apr 18, 2011
YDPL8S
Santa Monica, Ca.
YDPL8S   Santa Monica, Ca.
Will, I don't think anyone I know would be insulted. We didn't really name most of the problems, just had our own names for the rocks.
I don't know about others, but I'm just interested to find out how hard (or easy) some of the stuff we were doing was. I'll say one thing, we used to highball some of the stuff that was 5.8 or less, but you guys are hanging it out on things that we used to toprope. Of course we didn't have pads back then, just spotters, and they were usually fairly "baked". Apr 27, 2011
JP Griffith
Denver, CO
JP Griffith   Denver, CO
I was climbing on a boulder probably 50 yards NW of the main circular parking area and saw a piece of paper on the ground that said "Split Face Boulders". Does anyone know the names or difficulties of the routes on these boulders?
Also, there is a small boulder about 50 yards further on the road past "Quarter Inch Master Area". No such sign existed by this boulder, but there were two fun little crack routes on it but no chalk marks. Are there names for this rock and these routes? Jul 29, 2011
Toddzilla
Toddzilla  
This is so terribly frustrating. The directions all reference themselves and are utterly useless. "Go like you're going to The Stash...", well that would be helpful if the directions to The Stash were any good. Has no one been there recently to drop a pin? May 15, 2016

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