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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!


Getting There 

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.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Bouldering Areas:
Chief Broken Wing   V1 PG13     Boulder, 20 feet   Quarter Inch Master Area
Gunnison Crack   V1-2 R     Boulder, 30 feet   White Lightning Area
Captain Insano    V2+     Boulder, 15 feet   Kill Hill Bouldering Area : Fish Head Boulder
Grin and Bear it   V3     Boulder, 10 feet   Kill Hill Bouldering Area : Water Groove Area (top of K...
Straight Razor   V3     Boulder, 10 feet   The Stash
White Lightning   V3     Boulder, 15 feet   White Lightning Area
Water Groove   V3 R     Boulder, 20 feet   Kill Hill Bouldering Area : Water Groove Area (top of K...
Madagascar   V3     Boulder, 12 feet   The Stash
Quarter Inch Master   V3+     Boulder, 15 feet   Quarter Inch Master Area
The Roof Crack   V4     Boulder, 15 feet   The Roof Crack
Raleigh Arete   V4     Boulder, 16 feet   Quarter Inch Master Area
HOFNAR   V4-5     Boulder, 8 feet   White Lightning Area
Rain Man   V5     Boulder, 10 feet   The Beach
Cool Hand Luce   V5 R     Boulder, 20 feet   The Stash
Super Model   V5+     Boulder, 20 feet   Supermodel Area
Jenny   V5-6     Boulder, 10 feet   The Far Side : Bubba Gump Boulder
Jaws Arete   V6     Boulder, 15 feet   Quarter Inch Master Area
Project to the left of Breakdance Crack   V6-7     Boulder, 20 feet   The Candy Man Boulder
Rimjob   V7-8     Boulder, 20 feet   Quarter Inch Master Area
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By Reedrombo
From: Salt Lake City, UT
Jun 7, 2010

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.

By Will Anglin
From: Sykesville, MD
Jun 19, 2010

That is called the "Donkey Head Traverse" The Low start is V5-ish and the High start (matched on the cool crimper rail) is V4-ish.

EDIT: I just added the route.

By pedropeacock
Apr 16, 2011

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!

By YDPL8S
From: Santa Monica, Ca.
Apr 18, 2011

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.

By Will Anglin
From: Sykesville, MD
Apr 27, 2011

Hartmans is definitely receiving a lot more attention as of late. Since there is little to no record of past bouldering first ascents, most people just give things names so they are easier to refer to. No insult to the older generation intended. If anyone has any more information about the names or FAs of any boulder problems, please let me know and I will update the routes I have added.

By YDPL8S
From: Santa Monica, Ca.
Apr 27, 2011

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".

By Will Anglin
From: Sykesville, MD
Apr 27, 2011

That's good, I was hoping no one would get offended by us putting names to things. Definitely not trying to step on anyone's toes. We do, however, want to respect the original names y'all used (if you did name them), to preserve the history.

By JP Griffith
From: Denver, CO
Jul 29, 2011

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?