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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 12, 2015 - 03:35pm PT
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Did some hiking in the Canyon close to Spearfish and found some neglected cliffs.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2015 - 09:50pm PT
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Crags below spearfish peak
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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2015 - 08:39am PT
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Heading back for Labor Day. Not sure I'll get to climb. But it will be fun.
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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 22, 2015 - 10:24am PT
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BHB
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jan 20, 2016 - 10:30am PT
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BHBMBB
Black Hills Big Mike Birthday bump
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 6, 2016 - 07:29pm PT
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2016 - 10:26am PT
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Heading back this weekend and hoping to put a new route up here.
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O.D.
Trad climber
LA LA Land
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Heading back this weekend and hoping to put a new route up here.
Best wishes, looking forward to the after-photos!
This is one of my favourite threads on ST, as it consistently delivers solid climbing content. Thanks for keeping the thread alive.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2016 - 11:58am PT
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OD no problem loved letting people know what I saw, but it looks like someone else needs to pick up said torch as I only visit every once in a while now. Living Louisville and working in Boulder puts me right in the middle of front range climbing and I have gotten out enough to know what is out there in the last year and I don't think a lot of people would believe that there is as much or more access to great climbing to be had in this area as in the Boulder area. Of course there is no alpine or very big walls but if you like to climb a lot and want to get out there might not be a lot of better places for Trad, Sport, Crack, Bouldering, and even some ice climbing concentrated in one relatively small area. Slap a pitch or two below and on top of this wall and you would really have something.
One sad note is that Crow Peak above Spearfish is currently on fire. Needed to burn but still sad to see.This was in slightly cooler times but ...
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Fritz Weissner predicted the Needles would become one of the the premier climbing areas in the U.S.
Apparently not (and hurray for that), but there is a hell of a lot to do in the region.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2016 - 10:17pm PT
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Yeah rich probably only 4000 or 5000 routes who knows. Still got sways to go.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Hey Mike, Steve Wunsch and I put up an FA in the Needles in the early/mid 70's on a formation I think called Barbizan (sp?). I remember a crack thru a roof...know anyhing about it?
We did Hairy Pin the same day....pretty exciting.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2016 - 08:12am PT
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Bartizan is the formation. Don't have my guide with me but that is a really nice piece of rock.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Jim, it's Bartizan, and I suspect you wuz robbed! I think the route you did is called Kevizan (5.10+) and follows the obvious crack system up to and over the roof in the photo (from MP) below
The robbery part is that the route is credited to Wunsch and Bragg (1977) in both the Piana guide and (naturally) the MP entry for Kevizan.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2016 - 08:22am PT
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I have friends that feel that is the best crack in the needles. I think it has a 10+ hand crack roof finish that you can see pretty well in Rich's photo.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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rgold,
Jul 1, 2016 - 12:27pm PT
Fritz Weissner predicted the Needles would become one of the the premier climbing areas in the U.S.
Apparently not (and hurray for that), but there is a hell of a lot to do in the region.
Shhss, don't tell anyone that,
the secret might get out!
It was always a July hit for me, thnx for posting happy 2 before 4 of 7 @016!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2016 - 08:28am PT
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2016 - 08:32am PT
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Let the secret out there ain't no people around here.
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