Sanitarium Climbing

The approach is not bad but can get a little confusing. If you are coming from the pull off for the South Seas you would take the trail downhill passing formations like Shark's Fin and Toy Tug Boat. If you are coming from the Wrinkled Rock parking lot you will still head downhill and pass formations like the Reefs (1-3) and Child Molar. Either way you go you are basically walking away from the road and heading towards Baldy. Both ways will bring you to a well defined path that runs left to right. Go left on this trail and walk for roughly 200 yards. At some point you'll see a large pine that has a sort of lean-to against it. There is usually some birch sticks on the ground here making an arrow. Take a right at the pine on a pretty good path. Follow this until another pine that has a Black Hills Forest marker on it. Merge left here on another path, it is only a short jaunt uphill from here and it tends to go to the right. You will come across the Sanitarium Boulders first and then the Sanitarium formation itself.