Beautiful line through the clean shield on perfect crimps. This is only the stand start. The full value line will have to be done by someone else. Start the powerful beginning with right hand in the undercling slot and left hand on an undercling pinch at the same height. Move up and right. Topping out may look intimidating but there are good holds.

Master Plan

Get Pardoned

This Charming Man

Leftist

Shutdown

Forty Foot Fence

Tariffied

Separation of Powers

Four-score

Trumpty Dumpty

Hop the Pence

Toupée or Not Toupée

Rightist

Writing on the Wall

Borderline

Great movement that builds up to a difficult finish. Sit start on the obvious horn-like hold, and any other hold below that. Work up and left through decent holds to a couple of compression moves and a final move to the finish jug. Continue up the easy, tall top out.

A short term problem. Stand start off the small rock pedestal, right hand lower on an incut in the seam and left hand higher on a sloper in the other seam. Crux is the first move deadpointing to the jug. Make a couple more moves then exit right. A sit start to this would be heinous! 

A fun traversing line with a crux throw at the finish. Sit start, matched, on a flat ledge on the left edge of the right wall. Climb straight up to the "lip" then traverse right on decent crimps. Load up and toss for the large round sloper. Exit right up the chute.

Sit start on the sloping, wide cavity. Follow the left leaning crack system up into the notch. Match the large flat ledge up and right then drop off or continue up the gully for the full top out.

A nice sit start quickly leads into a 'shutdown'. Begin with left hand on a flat, triangle edge and right in the positive crack. Head up and slightly right to the tall but easy top out. Very subjective grade - the more height you have the easier it'll feel. Short crux but very powerful.

A somewhat contrived traverse line that follows the rough patina rails. Starting to the far right, stand start on a jug and go left. Top out at the peak of the patina rails, same finish as for 'Trumpty Dumpty'.

Sit start left hand sloper right hand side pull. Climbs the lip of the Boulder on slopers and tops out on jugs. 

A popular warm up for the area. Start on obvious large hold in depression and make a couple awkward moves up and left. Follow crimps to the sharp jugs on top.Edit: Obvious hold broke, now start with opposing gastons or matched on the left one.Submitter's Dialog:I am surprised this wasn't on here, I along with many others do this when we get here. FA, Chris, Lee? I'll leave it blank for now.I also just gave it a name, if it already had one suggest a change. "Four-score men, and four-score more couldn't make [Tr]umpty Dumpty where he was before."

The go-to warm up for the other problems on the wall albeit a little rough on the skin. Sit start directly below the large crystal dike with both hands gastoning on either side of the trough. Climb to the right on slopers for about 6' then straight up to top out.

Odd start with a left hand crimp, right hand on a slanted rail, and left foot in the rectangular crack just off the ground.  First move is a right heel hook to follow the yellow seam straight up to top out.

Start in the corner and work past the bulge to an airy top out.

Sit start in the sloping, wide cavity (same as for 'Leftist'). Make a couple moves up then trend right following patina-like crimps. Top out just right of the pine sapling.

Difficult SDS with right hand on undercling and left on lower gaston. Climb straight up through varying grips and poor feet. Crux is likely the big move out to the right facing "flake". Rest on a jug then continue up the groove out right. Committing top out but never gets harder than 5.9.

An easier compression line with an adventurous top out. Sit start on right hand jug, slap up the slightly overhanging bulb. At the top of the bulb, head left on good holds into the leftward angling groove. Do not go straight up to top out! Keep venturing left then up to finish. Alternatively, one could just just drop off.

This has some great roadside, cliff band bouldering. Hosts a couple of moderates along with some hard projects that have highball top outs. The southern exposure of this hillside makes it a great winter spot as it melts before most of the other boulders in Rushmore.

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