Page 1 of 1

Bob Archbold > Comments

Oct 16, 2003 Custer SP > Tenpins/Switchbacks Sandberg Peak ● I was up in the Needles today (13/16/03) and Sandberg Peak is still intact. View Comment
Aug 20, 2003 Custer SP Tenpins/Switchbacks ● To the Anonymous Coward Your underground lore is very incorrect. I would say that I was not over my head, b… View Comment
Sep 16, 2002 Needles Of Rush… > Mt Rushmore National… South Seas ● BEWARE, BEWARE, BEWARE!!!!!!! Some one is chopping routes of their bolts in the Rushmore Area. Ron Yahne an… View Comment
Sep 13, 2002 Needles Of Rush… > Mt Rushmore Nat… > S Seas > Cavity Stormy Night 5.7 ● The anchors have been lowered so to not have to do the last few feet of the chimney View Comment
Sep 8, 2002 Custer SP > Cathedral Spires > Spire Two East Face 5.6 ● You can rap the route with just one 165ft (50m) rope easily.you'll do it in three rappels. A 55m or 185 is… View Comment
Sep 4, 2002 Spearfish Canyon ● For those of you who are interested a guidebook is in the proces of being written for Spearfish Canyon. It… View Comment
Sep 2, 2002 Custer SP > Needles Eye Area > Needle's Eye Needle's Eye 5.8 X ● That flake is totally worthless, it is cracked most of the way. I don't even stand on it. The easiest climb… View Comment
Aug 30, 2002 Needles Of Rush… > Mt Rushmore Nat… > S Seas > Critical View Critical View 5.8 ● This route use to be definately 5.8. But through the course of erosion and the missing stone the start has… View Comment
Aug 30, 2002 Custer SP > Needles Eye Area > Needle's Eye Needle's Eye 5.8 X ● You are correct, Rich Goldstone did the first free ascent of the Needles Eye along with Don Storjohann. The… View Comment
Aug 20, 2002 Custer SP > Needles Eye Area > Needle's Eye Needle's Eye 5.8 X ● When you get to the fixed pitons long runner both of them or the rpoe drag will get you. If you long runner… View Comment
Aug 19, 2002 Needles Of Rush… > Mt Rushmore Nat… > Chopping Block > Chopping Block Baba Cool 5.9+ ● In my opinion Bab Cool is 10a. Even though Vern Phinney in his guide book has it rated as 9+. But then most… View Comment
Aug 18, 2002 Custer SP > Needles Eye Area Needle's Eye ● Things just get lost with time. As time goes by the little things or even some of the big things get lost.… View Comment
Aug 15, 2002 Custer SP > Sylvan Lake > Outlets > Inner Outlet Kamps Crack (Classic Crack) 5.8- ● This route was first climbed August 5, 1965 by Bob Kamps with Mark and Beverly Powell. This is a great clim… View Comment
Aug 15, 2002 Needles Of Rush… > Mt Rushmore Nat… > S Seas > Sharkstooth Boxcars and Airplanes 5.6 ● This route was first climbed from the ground up in 1990 by Bob Archbold and Dave Green View Comment
Aug 15, 2002 Needles Of Rush… > Mt Rushmore Nat… > S Seas > Reef 1 Old Number 8 5.8 ● This route was first climbed from the ground up by Mike and Rusty Lewis. View Comment
Aug 15, 2002 Needles Of Rush… > Mt Rushmore Nat… > S Seas > Reef 1 Way Cool Junior 5.7 ● The first ascent of this route was done in 1985 by Mike Nona and Brad Edwards View Comment
Aug 15, 2002 Custer SP > Sylvan Lake > Sylvan Lake Bou… > Campground Boulder Classic Corner V4 ● John Gill also did the FA of this boulder problem. View Comment
Aug 15, 2002 Custer SP > Sylvan Lake > Middle Earth > Fanghorn Hills Hrum Hroom 5.7 ● The first ascent of this route was done by Paul Muehl and Pete DeLanoy in the mid-1980's View Comment
Aug 15, 2002 Custer SP > Needles Eye Area > Gnomon Doody Direct 5.8 ● This route was first climbed in the 1960's by a Wyoming climber by the name of Dan Doody. Doody eventually… View Comment
Aug 15, 2002 Custer SP > Cathedral Spires > Spire Four Spire Four 5.4 ● In 32 years of climbing in the Needles I have never heard of Fraggle Rock getting into the 3.4 gully. I bel… View Comment
Aug 14, 2002 Custer SP > Custer SP Ice C… > Honey Bear Honey Bear Main Flow WI3 ● Just for history sake. Paul Piana did the first ascent in about 1978/79. He wrote an article for Climbing M… View Comment
Aug 14, 2002 Custer SP > Sylvan Lake > Outlets > Outer Outlet Conn Diagonal 5.7 ● If you want to make the traversing 2nd pitch a little more exciting do the overhang. That is after you pass… View Comment
Aug 13, 2002 Custer SP > Sylvan Lake > Outlets > Inner Outlet Wiessner Chimney 5.6 ● This route is far from being a classic in my book. To me grunts are not classics. I have done this route an… View Comment
Aug 13, 2002 Custer SP Needles Eye Area ● THE AGREEMENT The Needle's climbers have always had a strong sense of approaching the rock on its terms and… View Comment
Aug 11, 2002 Custer SP > Sylvan Lake Outlets ● I had a typing error on my comment about Tiki. The original route is a 5.8 not a 5.5. Old finger don't type… View Comment
Aug 10, 2002 Custer SP > Sylvan Lake Outlets ● There is a second route on Tiki besides the 5.5 route referred to in Piana's Touch the Sky guidebook. On ba… View Comment
Aug 9, 2002 Custer SP > Needles Eye Area Needle's Eye ● Years ago a gentleman's agreement was made with Custer State Park from the climber's to NOT climb routes th… View Comment
Aug 7, 2002 Needles Of Rush… > Mt Rushmore Nat… > Magna Carta > Marker > Middle Marker N (Lowe… Star Dancer 5.8 ● This route was first climbed by Mike Engle. It was drilled on the lead. Mike's first wife Sherri always tho… View Comment
Aug 7, 2002 Custer SP > Sylvan Lake > Photographers'… > Photographer's Peak Over Exposure 5.8 ● This route was first climbed by Paul Muehl. All the original bolts were drilled while on lead. It's too bad… View Comment
Aug 7, 2002 Custer SP > Sylvan Lake > Outlets > Dam - Front Side Knots Landing 5.10d ● This route was first climbed by Vern Phinney. It got it's name fom when the rope tied to Vern came untied a… View Comment
Aug 7, 2002 Needles Of Rush… > Mt Rushmore Nat… > S Seas > Reef 1 Way Cool Junior 5.7 ● A person did hit the ground prior to reaching the second bolt and gotten seriously injured. This was a begi… View Comment
Aug 7, 2002 Needles Of Rush… > Mt Rushmore Nat… > S Seas > Sharkstooth Boxcars and Airplanes 5.6 ● New bolts were placed in the original location of the original bolts. The pointless first one was to protec… View Comment
Aug 7, 2002 Custer SP > Tenpins/Switchb… > Sandberg Peak On Little Cat Feet 5.9 ● This IS NOT A NEW ROUTE! This is what had always been known as the Robbins Route, even though he originallg… View Comment

Page 1 of 1

Bob Archbold > Comments

Join the Community! It's FREE