finger and hand crack that overlooks Job Corp

Job Corps Crack

Job Corps Pillar

Pat's Crack

Terry's Crack

McNeil's Crack

dihedral route 10a

Pillar Route

TCU Dihedral

Job Corps Left Crack

5.6 Roof Route

Offwicth Blade

10a Roof Route

Pyramid on ledge

High Right Dihedral

Finger crack

Job Corps Right Crack

Main Wall Far Left Crack

Munge Offwidth

Walkers route

5.8 TCU Route

5.7 Crack

Crap Route

Climb steep dihedral past roof to nice upper cracks.

Far left, right hand dihedral above Job Corps

Dirty bottom chimney to nice splitter hand and fist crack at top

Probably best route on the wall.  Begin to right of large blocks putting pro in small crack to top of column.  Move left to spitter tips to hand crack with wide pod.

Climb to ledge and very splitter hand crack through beautiful yellow and orange rock.  Gets a little wider at the top but can slot a tcu on small crack on the right.

Climb crack up the dihedral to a fixed pin at crux then to a horizontal crack at the top of the pillar where you follow a finger crack to the top of the buttress.

Pull face move with decent pro to a tcu dihedral on the upper half of the route.

Climb under large roof and exit crack on the right

Climb curving wide crack with very sharp arête but very good pro to top of buttress.  Have a couple of options at the top to finish.

Sweet hand crack through a couple of roofs.  Little mungy getting to the crack

Climb really nice crack for 25 feet to ledge then climb large pyramid sitting on ledge to top and then climb crack to the top.

Climb interesting cracks with intermittent pro to really nice upper right facing dihedral with small gear.

Climb weird dihedral but with surprisingly good gear to small ledge where a beautiful left leaning finger crack starts.

Offwidth on left side of main wall but right of 5.6 Roof Crack.  Looks kind of nasty but climbs surprisingly well.

Climb really nice crack to ledge then climb large block sitting on the ledge and finish on wide crack above

TCU crack on the left side of the Main Wall

Dihedral flake route just right of Terry's Route.  Watch out for loose flakes.  I think I cleaned it up some but probably still some loose rock.  fairly easy and fun if you don't get impaled.

Boxelder Forks is a climbing area with about 20+ crack climbs.  Many are very splitter and up to 100 feet in lenght.  there have been no bolts or anchors on top of the routes as there are easy gear anchors, trees, or you can just walk off at the top.  Many cracks go from fingers to offwidth so therefore take a wide selection of gear.  Many have been cleaned of the major loose rocks, but use caution as they have not seen a lot of traffic. Most routes are in the 5.8 to 5.10 range and feature crack climbing where at times the most efficient way to climb them is with both hands and feet in the crack which seems to be a rarity in the South Dakota Black Hills.

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Routes in Boxelder Forks