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Blue Sky 


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Description 

The climbing here is overhanging and requires a bit of endurance and power. This area also has the hardest route THE STING(5.13c).


Getting There 

To get here drive about 20 miles down the canyon to The lodge and then about another half a mile to a mile and park just past the first bridge where there is a pull out on the right, walk across the road and the trail is there, walk up the hill past several good sized boulders for about 7-8 minutes, Left like half a minute is Lord of the flies wall and right is Gregs Gully, about 20 minutes


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Blue Sky:
All Strung Out on Crack   5.8     Sport, 1 pitch, 60 feet   Lord Of The Flies Wall
Cranium Crack   5.9     Sport   Indecent Exposure
Dragonfly   5.9     Sport, 1 pitch, 70 feet   Pheromone Wall
Thumbelina   5.9     Sport, 1 pitch, 70 feet   Lord Of The Flies Wall
Tasting Time   5.10a     Sport, 1 pitch, 70 feet   Indecent Exposure
Locomotive Breath   5.10b     Sport, 1 pitch, 55 feet   Iron Horse Wall
Carp   5.10c     Sport, 60 feet   The Fishbowl
The Conch   5.11a     Sport, 43 feet   Lord Of The Flies Wall
Engine No. 9   5.11b     Sport, 50 feet   Iron Horse Wall
Black Slabbath   5.12a     Sport, 50 feet   Lord Of The Flies Wall
Iron Horse   5.12a     Sport, 60 feet   Iron Horse Wall
Monorail   5.12c     Sport, 50 feet   Iron Horse Wall
Hagfish   5.12c     Sport, 50 feet   The Fishbowl
Flight of the Bumblebee   5.12d     Sport, 70 feet   Pheromone Wall
The Righteous and the Wicked   5.13a     Sport, 70 feet   The Fishbowl
Powers That Be   5.13a     Sport, 35 feet   Greg's Gully
Big Train   5.13a     Sport, 50 feet   Iron Horse Wall
The Sting   5.13c     Sport, 70 feet   Pheromone Wall
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Featured Route For Blue Sky
The Conch 5.11a <br />If you get on this climb, people must listen to you.

The Conch 5.11a  SD : Spearfish Canyon : ... : Lord Of The Flies Wall
The Conch climbs up the pocketed right side of the Lord of the Flies wall. Great warm-up for the harder routes on this wall. Begin by pulling the small roof right off the ground and then follow big, widely spaced pockets up and left. The crux at mid-height is tricky (think undercling), and the top has claimed more than a few pumped climbers. Enjoy!...[more]   Browse More Classics in SD


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Awesome new route. Buy the new Spearfish Canyon guide to find out what route this is? Brent please describe photo?

Awesome new route. Buy the new Spearfish Canyon gu...

Tony on A new route a bsky

Tony on A new route a bsky

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I had to make you drool, Bacon Station Dakota 5-0h...

Look at all that Blue Sky. A veiw of the right hand side of the Iron Horse Wall. Routes from left to right, Night Train, Locomotive Breath, Derail, Caboose.

Look at all that Blue Sky. A veiw of the right han...

Another look at the crack climbs known as Himalayback (left) and Cranium Crack (right)...get on em'! You'll love them. They're sweet like crack-er jacks! To the right and left of these cracks are killer the 5.12's "Oh Huck Yeah!" and "JetScream".

Another look at the crack climbs known as Himalayb...


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By Tane Owens
Apr 30, 2013

First time at Blue Sky this last weekend. I found the routes that I climbed very sustained, which is great. Get up there around noon and you'll have sunshine the rest of the day. It's also a great place if you don't like having to clip a bolt every 5 feet as I found the placements a bit more runout than other areas of the canyon, which is also great.

Can't wait to go back.