This route is smackdab in the middle of the wall. It goes up a sorta crack, which wouldn't take good gear at all. The fist few bolts go through some shist which is super steep. After you gain the crack the rock become granite and stays steep, overhanging even. This is steep fun route with some good fist jams. It is well protected and a bit hard. I put a extra bolt up top just so you dont go whipping into the tree.   Its not over till its over.   good luck

Shistlers Fist

Lost Dog

Pocket rocket

Jet Boil

Simply Astounding

Far and Away

Dale "straight off the couch" Curran discovered this  bad boy on one of our exploratory outings. Before we set out he told me jokingly    " prepare to be astounded " by the climbing shape he was in. The thing is --- I was!!!!   Climb the Right to left angling hand crack to the small birch tree,clip a bolt and traverse right. Technical face through 2 more bolts brings you to another right to left angling crack.   This route has fun and has different movements than your use to from Rushmore!

Just left of Far and Away,  a high ball boulder start to a bolt, the first gear is small and not the best the reason for the bolt. The rest of the gear is good.  Crux is in the Chimney "Pod". Place a #3 or #4 then Pull the roof and go right  to Far and Way's anchors.

Fun 5.10 climbing on good rock up to the 6th bolt. Here the sequence gets tricky as you follow a thin right treading seam. Don't forget to look back left!

The Jetboil is one of the fastest stoves to boil liquids, well this bad boy just may boil your forearms if you don’t get through the thin hands crack crux fast enough! After pulling the lip it eases off to about 5.7. Clip the single bolt and stay on the plumb line to the anchors,navigating through some angling hand cracks.   After putting this route in I found out Stetzer had cleaned and top roped it a few years earlier, but just had not got back to it.

This route is left of the overhanging wall on a seperate formation. Its a boulder problem on a rope. The crux is at the second bolt and like the name indicates you must go Far and Away from some side pulls and good feet to a big jug. After the first crux is done one must do another crux at the 3rd and 4th bolts. The second crux is easier but I could see people falling there.   I gave it many tries and only stuck the first crux when I sent it, big move double handed dyno, maybe V7. The second crux is maybe v4. Anyway get after it and let me know what you think.   Killer rock

This area is a quite little place just behind the skypager boulder. It is a Steep little crag with some overhanging shist at the bottom, and bullet granite. I think it would be possible to climb here all year, except when its super hot, or super cold. The routes are somewhat short but fun, and there is potential for some more new routes. As far as I now it legal to bolt there, for it is in the National Forest, If I am wrong please, let me know. As far as I know there are three routes Shistlers fist, Far and away, aswell as some oldschool route wich Ron the man Yahnne did, sorry if I spelled your name wrong Ron. This crag is a little out of the way, by Rushmore standards and seldomly sees climbers. Have fun!

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