Face climbing on awesome pockets until you can reach the stem out left (which makes this 5.10) and start twisting and turning your way up into the dihedral.

Twist One Up

A Little Kush For The Final Push

Faded

Smoke Like a Chimney

Freakin' High

The Blunt Arete

If We All Had a Bong Weed All Get Along

I Like These Plants

Stakes Are High And So Am I

A good route for those who like crimp ladders. This climb is almost a Needles experience. If the Southern Hills granite and the Northern Hills limestone had a baby...this is what the bastard would look like. A lack of jugs and really secure holds might harsh the mellow of most limestoners who seek out huge holds on steep terrain. But if you love to crimp get on it! Think Rushmore's Static Cling on black slabby limestone. Don't call a whambulance halfway up! Keep inching your way up intermediates and reach and high step when you can. Worth doing! Get on it!

The final climb on the far right hand side of The Danks is a five eleven challenge not to be missed by those who want to enjoy another long pumpy route with some thoughtful movement.   

  This is yet another Danks route with a crux right off the deck that will get you real pumped real early. Fight to stay on the rock and enjoy big movements to holds that are either teeny tiny or super big. 

  You will feel pretty dang faded when this never ending route is finally in the bag.

Ya gotta love The Danks! Here is another forever-long climb that has some really cool, thoughtful-throw provoking, super-fun creative moves through jugs, crimpers and miles upon miles of pockets that simply need to be linked together in one streamless flow of consciousness. 

  Hint! 70% of all the best holds on this route are on the left side of the bolt line. Take that into consideration when you are trying to send.

Climb a steep arete just to the right of Twist One Up. Small holds and hallucination inducing exposure grab onto the climber's brain right away as you make your way up the first half of the climb inch by miserable inch. 

  And then the fun starts! 

  Position yourself on a micro-ledge a million feet off the ground and search around for a tiny ass hidden hold that feels wicked insecure once you realize that you are hella far away from your last bolt and the next bolt is even farther away yet. 

  Spearfish Canyon meets Custer State Park! Many a fine climber have bailed off this thing to try something less hairy and scary.

Starts on mellow holds on the left side of a black arete. Gain a bunch of altitude with some big moves and enjoy a tricky little layback crux using a finger crack to bigger and better holds. 

  The black section then gives way to a golden slab with another crux on interesting under clings, side pulls, fun pockets and jug holds under the roof.  

  Pull the roof using long moves to big holds and enjoy the final run out slab to the anchors. This route is pretty awesome! It is really just one big, burly move after another...just high step and reach and its all there. Some of the holds are hidden and the climbing gets real pumpy making this route hard to hold onto. But for those who don't choke this route is fun as hell to send if you figure out how to link all one million moves together. 

  All you limestoners, who seek out harder five ten climbs, that are long and strong, will definitely not want to miss out on this one!

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