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The Dark Side Bouldering

Climbing Area Map

Areas in The Dark Side

Arrowhead Arete Area 0 / 0 / 0 / 16 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 16

Caves, The 0 / 0 / 0 / 12 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 12

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 / 9 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 9

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 / 20 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 20

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Elevation:	5,918 ft	1,804 m
GPS:	39.651, -105.18801 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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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 5 259 ● In the Beginning Boulder Cube Area
V1 5 154 ● [Redacted] Boulder Warm-up Traverse Area
V1+ 5 132 ● Part of A Warmup Traverse Boulder Warm-up Traverse Area
V3 6A 363 ● Breashear's Crack II Boulder Cube Area
V3 6A 104 ● Super Phun Thyme Boulder Cube Area
V4-5 6B+ 132 ● Slots Boulder Warm-up Traverse Area
V5 6C 210 ● Double Arete Boulder Squirming Coil Area
V5 6C 6 ● Left Arete Boulder MoSo Area
V5 6C 39 ● Cling Free Boulder Dasani Area
V5+ 6C+ 168 ● Squirming Coil Boulder Squirming Coil Area
V6- 7A 166 ● Dasani Boulder Dasani Area
V6 7A R 57 ● Rupture Boulder Caves > Rupture Cave
V7+ 7A+ 23 ● Arrowhead Arete Stand Boulder Arrowhead Arete Area
V9 7C 13 ● Arrowhead Arete Low Boulder Arrowhead Arete Area
V10 7C+ 29 ● Arrowhead Arete (SDS) Boulder Arrowhead Arete Area