South Dakota Climbing Travel Guide

South Dakota Climbing Travel Guide

• South Dakota Overview
• South Dakota Hotels
• South Dakota Attractions
• South Dakota Feature Articles
• South Dakota Airports
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Other Guides for South Dakota

• South Dakota Travel
• Active and Adventure Guide
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Top Climbing Destinations In South Dakota

• Custer State Park, SD
  

Travel Guides In South Dakota

• Badlands National Park, SD
  • Family Guide
• Black Hills, Badlands, and Mount Rushmore, SD
  • Family Guide
• Mount Rushmore, SD
  • Family Guide
• Rapid City, SD
• Aberdeen, SD
• Custer, SD
• Deadwood, SD
• Faulkton, SD
• Hill City, SD
• Mitchell, SD

Midwest Climbing States/Provinces

• South Dakota

Active and Adventure Travel Destinations

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Feature Articles

• South Dakota's Black Hills: Tearing across the Bottom and Scaling to the Top
  

Practical Advice

• Rising to the Challenge
  How do you learn to conquer a snow-covered mountain—and your fears? Simple. Go with Wyoming's Exum Mountain Guides, the leaders in mountaineering training.
• What Andrew McLean, Ski Mountaineer, Brings
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  McLean, 47, is one of the world's most accomplished backcountry skiers, with first descents on every continent—and more than 100 total. This spring, he's off to Greenland for a few more. Here's what he's packing.
• How to Build a Bomber Anchor
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  To set up your own anchor for a climbing top rope (or slackline, or car stuck in a ditch), all you need is a 20-foot piece of webbing, a carabiner, and a tree.
• Climbing Trips - How to Train
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• Climbing Trips - What to Expect
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Gear

• What You Need: Ski Mountaineering
  The gear you need to strap on, pack up, wear, and shed to get up—and back down—a serious mountain.
• Women's Rock Climbing
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• Climbing
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• Ice Climbing Gear Essentials
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  The key to staying warm and stuck to the ice? The right stuff.
• What Andrew McLean, Ski Mountaineer, Brings
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  McLean, 47, is one of the world's most accomplished backcountry skiers, with first descents on every continent—and more than 100 total. This spring, he's off to Greenland for a few more. Here's what he's packing.

Fitness

• Are the Mountains Killing Your Brain?
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  Alarming new science shows that thin air can wreck brain cells—at lower altitudes than you'd think. Here's how to protect yourself.
• Mountain Athlete
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  Jackson, Wyoming
• Chalk It Up
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  Experience is the key to mountaineering prowess, but high-altitude fitness makes all the difference on summit day
• America's Best Cities: Charlotte, North Carolina
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  No. 10
• Hot Flex
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  Meet your secret muscles—and find out how these hidden assets can leverage your leap to peak performance

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Attractions

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

southwestern South Dakota, 100 miles from Badlands National Park
Keystone, South Dakota 57751

Description: Four presidential faces carved from a mountain, considered one of the wonders of the world -- go for the nightly lighting ceremony.... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

Angostura Recreation Area

10 miles SE of Hot Springs off US Hwy. 385/18
13157 N. Angostura Rd.
Hot Springs, South Dakota 57747

Description: Angostura Reservoir is a recreation area offering opportunities for boating, fishing, and swimming.... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

Crazy Horse Memorial

Black Hills of South Dakota on U.S. Highway 16/385 just 17 miles southwest of Mount Rushmore.
12151 Avenue of the Chiefs
Crazy Horse, South Dakota 57730

Description: In 1948, Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski began carving Crazy Horse Memorial, when Lakota Chief Henry... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

Hotels

Rock Crest Lodge & Cabins

15 W. Mt. Rushmore Rd.
Custer, SD 57730 Map

Hotel Class: Not Yet Rated

Good For Climbing

Expert Rated & Recommended

Custer State Park Resort—Sylvan Lake Lodge

24572 U.S. Hwy. 87
Custer, SD 57730 Map

Hotel Class: Not Yet Rated

Good For Climbing

Expert Rated & Recommended

Custer State Park Resort—Legion Lake Lodge

12967 US Hwy. 16A
Custer, SD 57730 Map

Hotel Class: Not Yet Rated

Expert Rated & Recommended

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