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  • May 07, 2012 2.5 days -- Kevin DeWeese, Dixie
    Slow ascent with bivies at the base, Awhanee, and Dano ledge. Would consider pitch 3 to be crux of the route. fun route in general but felt pitch 4 was awkward both to lead and clean. Free climbing to bolts of pitch 5 can be aided by cam hook, cam hook, hook, cam hook, hook, then thin cams.
  • Apr 25, 2011 5 days -- Christina Natal (solo)
    My first solo wall. It was fantastic! gear on p.3 is pretty tricky... esp. if you don't have peckers (I think that's what they're called). the fixed heads i encountered weren't all that fixed as well. But super fun route with amazing exposure!
  • Aug 2009 12hours -- David Allfrey (solo)
  • Jul 2009 09hours -- Erik Sloan, David Dugan
  • Jul 2009 09hours -- David Allfrey, Scott Lappin
  • Jun 2009 11hours -- Colby Wayment (solo)
    First wall solo. Good times. Straightforward route.
  • May 13, 2008 1 day -- Roger Putnam, Eric Grove
    First Yosemite big wall top out.
  • Aug 2005 2 days -- Erik Kinsey, Allen Higgenbothem, Kathy Schrader
    Everyone has to start somewhere. We did everything wrong; our hauling was so backwards, some unnecessary long leads, sooo much cluster f@#%, and as we finished the climb Katie and Lynn came free climbing from behind. The whole thing was mind blowing. We finally got back to the car in the dark and I was so stoked. The problem was I did'nt know what I was stoked on?
  • May 2000 06hours -- Erik Sloan (solo)
  • Feb 1996 2.5 days -- Erik Sloan (solo)
    I'll always remember rolling into the Valley during a warm, high-pressure window and spending a few days alone on the Tower. There was no snow. The mellowness of the climbing and the deep quiet and stillness of that time of year was very magical. You'll never forget talking to the tourists in the parking lot after your first solo. 'You climbed that(!)?'
  • Aug 1995 3.5 days -- Dean Miller (solo)
    2nd Wall. First solo.( all but 5.7 pitch) Had an adventure. A total blast. Ran out of food, water and cigarettes. Did 2 bivies in slings, 1 on Ahwanee.
  • Jun 1995 10hours -- Erik Sloan, Chris McNamara
    We went up to climb Wet Denin, but I got a wicked stomach ache after leading the first pitch off Ahwahnee, so we rapped and kept on on the mellow West Face. Great Tower!
  • Jun 1979 2 days -- Paul Gagner, Steve "Shipoopi" Schneider

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Erik Sloan is an Alaskan native, who lived and worked in Yosemite from 2002-2012, and has been bigwall climbing there since 1994. Erik has climbed El Cap over 80 times. He is the co-author of Supertopo’s Yosemite BigWalls 2nd edition, and the author of a community website for Wawona climbing: wawona.yosemitebigwall.com. Erik is currently working on a new, more comprehensive book project that will replace the now out-of-print Yosemite Climbs: BigWalls by George Meyers and Don Reid.