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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2014 - 02:10pm PT
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Bouldering at the Maze by Nemo.Cool formation by Crow Peak
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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2014 - 09:11am PT
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Cragar
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MSLA - MT
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Yeah, good zone for sure. Thanks for the pics! The human history of the hills is fascinating ta'boot! I spent a week there riding the bike. The Dak50 got me there and before and after it, I wandered around. The rock is amazing. All of those spires got me paws sweating!! Black crystals and the medieval feel of the place is magical. I also like the approach drive across the Crow and the the Montana Serengeti!
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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2014 - 09:36am PT
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Did you get to ride Crow Peak outside of Spearfish? One of my favorites.
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Cragar
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MSLA - MT
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No, missed it! Thanks for the heads-up, by Crow, I meant the Res. A different place.. I'm planning on the Dak50 next year. I will bring the rock shoes and c-bag this time as well! BTW, do you know Perry??
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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2014 - 10:07am PT
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Yes
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Cragar
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MSLA - MT
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Of course you do! Who doesn't? Is he donning a wig in that old Kona kit in the summit pic? He and his family are awesome.
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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2014 - 04:47pm PT
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Nantucket Slieghride in the Ten Pins area.
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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 3, 2014 - 08:01am PT
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johnboy
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Can't get here from there
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Area around the window.
Two views from the window.
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johnboy
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Can't get here from there
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You looking at me?
Checking out my rear big boy?
This poor little guy didn't make it through last Octobers blizzard.
But this guy thinks he's going to chase doe this year.
Kids will play.
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johnboy
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Can't get here from there
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Elk creek and Little Elk Creek areas.
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johnboy
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Can't get here from there
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Harney area.
You can quit looking for the lost cabin, it's right here.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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My 1st visit was whirlwind blast that was more about the Tower in 6/'79
Then in the early summer of '81 I was back with Kevin & Barb who introduced me around to so many people. Dennis H, the Lewis Bothers, Big Paul.....
The light blue-covered sixty PG guide was then being passed around locales only hand drawn lines and words of wisdom.
The memory of the specifics, whose place and where was it that we stayed? What did we climb? 7 or 8 of, The Ten Pins, Queen Pin, The joker, Super Pin, Hairy Pin? The Needles eye? EDIT.... why do I. remember a meat fest BBQ? the night before the march to the farthest off spires; Pickett Fence,ect.
There were other climbs that were just things that had been waiting and
I was psyched to sit on the tops with KB & BD.
I went back 3yrs in a row '84,'85,'86 for three week, stays.
Then in '91'93 & 95, again around three weeks in the Hills
Added up, maybe 90 days of climbing around the Black Hills.
An old Question I have from back then is: has any one ever heard of a chossy block in a cow pasture that has a very distinctive Lightning Bolt crack that seams out ten feet from the mungy top??Sand Blaster.? .11R/x.
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johnboy
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Can't get here from there
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Iron Creek /Iron Mt. area.
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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 3, 2014 - 03:34pm PT
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That baby deer shot is awesome. Was it alive?
I think I have done a few of those ice pillars in Elk Creek by Knifeblade Rock. We did a short pillar to a slab to ablsolute choss one time and it had an old sling on it. Did you do any of those routes? I have also done at least three ice routes in Little Elk Creek. One that does not form very often that goes 100ft through the sandstone band on the west side of the canyon. Looks like we both like to explore some of the out of the way places in the hills.
A friend of mine said he did a 30ft pillar in Stagebarn Canyon if I remember right, but I have not seen it.
Gnome, it sounds like you have been in the hills a bit. Did I see that you know Dennis H. on another thead?
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johnboy
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Can't get here from there
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The deer had been dead for awhile.
I,ve only done one of the icecicles in Elk Creek, the other times I did't have my gear, it's a bit of a hike up creek.
Yes, that one up Little Elk Creek gets nice and fat some years, did it in 98? (was that the cold one?). There is another that gets real long, starts at the small spring {some years} and follows the slide area all the way down.
Ever done the tall rock pinnicle down stream fron the ice on the bend?
I'm still looking for my Remington wall pics.
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Evel
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Nedsterdam CO
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Aw Dern! mikem you just had to go ahead and post pix of the Sleighride dincha! I don't have any 'cause I've yet to have the nerve to get on it.
Got any of Three Rings...??
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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 3, 2014 - 05:19pm PT
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Done it but not sure I have pics of that one. Nantucket isn't that bad specially compared to vertigo which I thought you said you had done. I will look for three rings may have some on film.
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Evel
Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
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Quo Nantucket isn't that bad specially compared to vertigo which I thought you said you had done.te Here
It's a mental thing for me. Some days I can't even do stuff like the Pinpoint, other days are better. NS has always been such an amazing looking line to me. Guess I'm just waiting for the right vibe.
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