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Description 

The majority of climbs here are either sport or mixed climbs (i.e bring your nuts and cams). Climbs are short, close together, on good quality rock with closely spaced bolts.


Getting There 

This is the southern most rock formation in Moonlight Ridge and is the second formation one comes to from the trail on the north-east corner of needle's eye parking lot.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for The Galaxy:
Darth Vader   5.5 PG13     Trad, Sport, 1 pitch, 30 feet   
Meteor   5.5     Trad, 1 pitch, 40 feet   
Dancing in the Moonlight   5.6 PG13     Sport, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
Saturn   5.7 PG13     Trad, 1 pitch, 40 feet   
Pluto   5.8     Sport, 40 feet   
Jupiter   5.9-     Sport, 1 pitch, 40 feet   
Neptune   5.9     Sport, 1 pitch, 50 feet   
Zeus   5.10a     Trad, Sport   
Lunatic   5.10b     Sport, 60 feet   
Icarus   5.10b     Sport, 50 feet   
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Featured Route For The Galaxy
Lunatic is the bolted arete on the left of the photo.

Lunatic 5.10b  SD : Custer State Park : ... : The Galaxy
A very sustained and slightly overhanging route up an arete. Like other routes in this area, the holds look huge from the ground and some of them are. However, once on the climb you will find that many "jugs" are actually medium-sized crimpers....[more]   Browse More Classics in SD