Blue Sky

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

Featured Route For Blue Sky

Monorail 5.12c  SD : Spearfish Canyon : ... : Iron Horse Wall

This line follows the obvious crack-like feature up the center of the cream colored wall (with cream colored hangers). The climbing is very sequential on cool, slender pockets with the occasional fingerlock thrown in. The fourth bolt is a little hard to clip off of a slopey right hand mono/stack. Just set your feet, take a breath, and clip.... it's not too bad, many people fall on the thin moves after the clip.Great route that starts hard and sta...[more]   Browse More Classics in SD