Start with both hands pinching the far right side of the same vein used on "You Son of A Motherless Goat" (the start hold for Dyke Dream). Do a difficult throw to a small, hidden edge then throw for the top. Two hard moves.

Lucky Day

Quiet Desperation

Dyke Dream

A Fall Farewell

You Son of A Motherless Goat

My Little Buttercup

Ned Nederlander

El Guapo

Cottage Built For Two

Dusty Bottom

Amazing! Start on the uphill side of the Three Amigos Boulder on the obvious, low two handed pinch (same start hold as Lucky Day). Climb the immaculate brown dyke feature into You Son of A Motherless Goat and finish for that problem. The first move is for sure the crux. Really great rock and a perfect, powerful problem.

This route uses the same sit start as El Guapo on the "Amigos boulder".  Move left from the large sit start holds to two opposing crimps. From here continue to go straight up staying left of arete and bulge of El guapo. The top out involves a strong move or throw to a good crystal. Hard crimping and lock offs for this antithesis of the "Dyke Dream" problem also located on this boulder.

Just to the left of El Guapo at 8 ft level is a hidden, very small edge rail. Start matched on this. Do a delicate move to a bad pinch on the spine. Get a heel on the start hold (hard to do) reach to a nothing crimp (literally) then throw for better holds in the washout to the left. A delicate mantle gets you to the top.    A great problem would start for El Guapo and climb into and finish for this problem. It would be hard I think.

Start on the obvious, near horizontal pinch on the left end of the long vein. Do one move left to a good hold then shoot over the top. The small crack is not part of this problem.

Very fun/tall problem. Start with your left hand on the edge at 6 feet and right hand on a low sidepull. Climb straight up, liebacking all the way to the top. Tall top out but there are holds on top.

A great warm up boulder problem! Or an excellent problem for a novice pebble wrangler. "Ned Nederlander" offers a good start and a nice dynamic move a few feet of the deck. Just a really fun problem to start off any day of climbing!

Ah, "El Guapo" what a little bastard of a problem. It kills your fingers and you've got to really crank on some tiny finger tip slopers to top it out. Really over grown by moss and needles, Guapo constantly needs to be brushed out. Sit start on the big crystals, work right to another big crystal, up to a small crip, match, grip the bulget, then pull-scratch-yank-and yell top the top. The crux is pulling through the left side of the bulge. "if you can't be good, be strong"

Sit start as for El Guapo. Traverse right eventually linking into My Little ButterCup...finish for that problem.

Jump start to an obvious dish that contains a couple of big holds. Then hike both feet up to a couple of dime size edges. From the holds, pull yourself up to a thimble size crystal. It feels a bit desperate because it seems like you don't have any feet underneath you, but just make the move a pull on out.

This great boulder has 10 established problems (the most that I can think of on any boulder in South Dakota) on it and there is potential for a few more (HARD!) problems. The grades range from V0 to V8 and most of the problems are of high quality. The approach is also very easy and takes about 10 minutes. Well worth it for this boulder!

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