TR: Black Hills Cathedral Spires

Cheryls' write-ups of our project to climb all the named spires:

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Nice job it must have been a lot of fun.

probably the most scared i've been in the hills - climbing above that old bolt on the javelin about 10 years ago. vowed to never climb that spire again, but now that it has a new bolt....

Way cool! I've been thinking in my dotage about coming back for exactly that project.

I managed to do almost all or perhaps all the Cathedral spires that are hard BITD, so what is left, and there is a lot, would be suitable for my near-septagenarian skill level. (I'm not saying I've done all or almost all the hard routes mind you, just all the spires whose easiest route is hard, meaning 5.9 or harder. But perhaps there are a few I've overlooked.)

Wow. That is a lot of summits! Congratulations! You'll have to let me in on some of your favorites, as I will be spending a considerable amount of time living in Poverty this summer.

One of the all-time classic Needles expeditions, and a tour of Conn accomplishments, is to do the East Face of the East Gruesome (the Conn's hardest route I think), rap into the notch between the East Gruesome and the South Tower of Spire 4, and then do the Conn route on that.

Very cool! Great TR, and photos. Will have to try to make it out to the BH's someday. Thanks for sharing!