Primitive Plan for the Weekend Wars, a contemporary boulder problem at Sand Rock

Well, with the limb i cut that covered the top-third of the face, and patches of moss and lichen i brushed off the slopers at the top, i'm pretty sure this rock hasn't been passed over this way by anyone else. I have no idea why people who climb haven't taken to it, cause really, it's not that far out of the way.
Its located at the historic area these climbers called Sand Rock, just up the ridge from the town proper. The state calls it Cherokee Rock Village, locals call it Indian Rock Village, and if the county follows through with plans for putting it as a park, with power and water, gazebos and a country store and the whole lot, it'll be known to some as Little Rock City.... But there already is a place known as Little Rock City that's not too far away, located on the fringes of a golf course surrounded by multi-million dollar homes, and that place is being called Stone Fort by some these days.... I wonder what the Cherokee called this place -- what it was to them; if the name of it, the features of the land, and the transaction that took place were all three one and the same. I guess it's lost to memory, driven to lit out in country west of the Mississippi, extinguished somewhere along the big muddy bottom.

Since the coming of the mule and cart, the rail line, the road, gas and garbage and graffiti, power drills and crash pads, most people can take to this rock by following the trail along the base of the Sun Wall to where it'd be easy to walk up as it slabs out, but go down instead, past a boulder with a bolted line that shouldn't be bolted which sits on the cusp of another tier, and down from there, within spitting distance, laying on the hillside above other beautiful and unfrequented boulders, there it is: a Primitive Plan for the Weekend Wars.

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[akornphoto]

Not the FA - sorry guys...

[BoulderLayne]

this is not an F.A.

[bamaboy4675]

Awesome boulder. I'd like to give it a try. What area of sandrock is it?