Cathedral Spires, East Face, Spire 2
The Black Hills have a mystical otherworldly quality. Where cellphones get no reception and the individual is submerged in the raw natural beauty all around. The one catch is, you must travel deeper in, past all the hordes of flocking roadside tourists.
It blows my mind wondering how such formations were ever made. But then, so does so many crazy natural rock formations. I blame water mostly, and lots of time.
We climbed the "East Face" route, of Spire 2, in the Cathedrals, technically classified as a 5.6 trad route. Most of the climb was 5.3 average with a couple crux moves that might bump the end of the pitch 1, and the middle of pitch three to a 5.6. Adventure climbing at it's best, with great exposure and excellent views. The wind picked up near the top which added an extra element of edginess.
Here's @velveteendream making the final move over the belay to summit the climb at 250 feet. Her first major big climb. So proud ma babe.
Sittin' summit side top of the climb. True summit was an exposed jump across a narrow rock ledge to another platform. I might have done that.
Rappelling down can be just as tricky and fun as going up. Safety first they say.
The feeling of solid ground is never more comforting after 4 hours of vertical travel.
Music by: Boards of Canada, "The Devil Is In The Details"
▶️ DTube
▶️ IPFS
Damn man!
you guys see any wild animals tho?
like wolves or bears?
I heard US has a lot of wild life in the forests! :)
You received a 41.61% upvote from @brotherhood thanks to @mamalikh13!,
join on @brotherhood community on discord channel:https://discord.gg/3HZdaGk and share your post there.
Delegate to Bot and Get High Return Fix 100% earning return,
bidders will always win something and it will adapt to distribute all the 100% upvote ,now we reached to 13000 SP and recommend. send the 0.15 to 0.4 sbd or steem.
Na man, just deer. The Black Hills are in bison country. Might have coyotes and black bear, but otherwise quite safe. It’s further out west, Teton area where need to carry bear spray, big grizzlies.
Damn man!
my friend is in cali and actually he goes for hunting.
man he got a bear tag, as in he can shoot them WTF!
That's some adrenaline rush for sure! :D
Truth dude. Wouldn’t want to miss and piss a grizzly off. Hope he’s shootin’ 50cal. Yikes!
the crazier part is that he does't use a gun!
he takes them down with archery, how insane is that! haha
man that type of hunting must tough.
That’s nuts man. Real hunting. That’s like looking the bear in the eyes kind of hunting.
Yeah man like 10 to 20 feet away!
man that's no freaking joke.
The man got legit pair of iron balls !! hahahah :D
You received a 32.79% upvote from @brotherhood thanks to @mamalikh13!,
join on @brotherhood community on discord channel:https://discord.gg/3HZdaGk and share your post there.
Delegate to Bot and Get High Return Fix 100% earning return,
bidders will always win something and it will adapt to distribute all the 100% upvote ,now we reached to 13000 SP and recommend. send the 0.15 to 0.4 sbd or steem.
You received a 55.56% upvote from @brotherhood thanks to @gamercreed!,
join on @brotherhood community on discord channel:https://discord.gg/3HZdaGk and share your post there.
Delegate to Bot and Get High Return Fix 100% earning return,
bidders will always win something and it will adapt to distribute all the 100% upvote ,now we reached to 13000 SP and recommend. send the 0.15 to 0.4 sbd or steem.
You received a 34.75% upvote from @brotherhood thanks to @mamalikh13!,
join on @brotherhood community on discord channel:https://discord.gg/3HZdaGk and share your post there.
Delegate to Bot and Get High Return Fix 100% earning return,
bidders will always win something and it will adapt to distribute all the 100% upvote ,now we reached to 13000 SP and recommend. send the 0.15 to 0.4 sbd or steem.
A total blast. I'm glad you convinced me to do this, even though it was terrifying at first.
Congratulations @ghostfish! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :
Click on any badge to view your Board of Honor.
For more information about SteemitBoard, click here
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOPDo not miss the last announcement from @steemitboard!