Mt. Watkins

Routes

 

All Routes (left to right)
The Twisted Road VI 5.12

FA:2002. Paul Turecki, Kristen Kremer, Greg Collins
Hook, Line and Sinker VI 5.10 A3+

FA:May 1978. Mike Munger, Angus Thuermer, Steve Larson
Seido VI 5.10 A4

FA:October 1993. Seidou Urano
South Face VI 5.8 C3 or A2 or 5.13

FA:July 1964. Warren Harding, Yvon Chouinard, Chuck Pratt

FFA: 1999. Steve Sutton, Brooke Sandahl
Tenaya's Terror VI 5.9 A4

FA:June 1985. Mike Corbett, Steve Bosque
Soul Shakedown VI 5.11 A4

FA:August 1993. Urmas Franosch, Sean Plunkett
The Prism VI 5.10 A3+

FA:August 1992. Urmas Franosch, Sean Plunkett
Bob Locke Memorial Buttress VI 5.11 A4

FA:October 1978. Jim Bridwell, Ron Kauk, John Long, Kim...

Escape from Freedom VI 5.11c A1

FA:July 1992. Urmas Franosch, Bruce Morris

Speed Records

South Face

  • Partner: 05h:15mins - Dean Potter, Timmy O'Neill - Oct 2002 ( El Cap, Half Dome, Watkins linkup )
  • Solo: 22h:20mins - Paul Gagner - Aug 1987 ( first one day solo ascent )

Welcome to YosemiteBigwall.com!

YosemiteBigwall.com is a community space for collecting and sharing Yosemite Bigwall climbing information. This new website contains basic information about Yosemite Bigwall climbing routes(Washington Column, the Leaning Tower, and some El Cap routes at least ☺)—detailed topos, trip reports, photos, and route history—all available publicly, free-of-charge.

Till now, information about Yosemite bigwalls has been scattered across many websites, making it is difficult to find information about many(or most!) of the routes. A commercial interest or mentality has prevailed—routes that are popular and get climbed often are easy to find basic information for while routes that are seldom climbed languish in out-of-print guidebooks, in the notebooks of the first ascentionists, or are buried in ‘obscure’ sections of websites.

This is a community work in progress, and as they say, “it takes a village to raise a website” (or is that “a child?”), so please, jump on in and join the fun. If you pioneered one or more bigwall routes in Yosemite, please share information about your climb. If you climbed a bigwall route and found the topo to be inaccurate, or have photos, beta or stories you’d like to share, please do so. With your help, YosemiteBigwall.com will continue to develop into a community supported and run website for all Yosemite Bigwall beta—a true online Yosemite Bigwall library.


Contact Erik with any info/suggestions/updates: erik@yosemitebigwall.com

 

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Special thanks to Tom Lambert(ultriaskier.com) for his sage advice/expertise, and to James McBryan(thetechscouts.com) for developing the site.

Thanks and enjoy the site,

Erik Sloan

 

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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.