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Date Climbed Trip Report Wall Posted By Route
2005-08 The Moanfest. My first, (mostly) solo of a bigwall. August 95 Leaning Tower misnomer 3. West Face
2012-03 South Face - Dinner Ledge Not a Soul Around Washington Column South Face mungeclimber South Face
2011-03 Golden Laughing Ribbon Falls erik sloan Laughing at the Void
2009-07 Shortest Straw solo 2009 - video El Capitan Southeast Face wigball Shortest Straw
2009-06 Mescalito solo 2009 - video El Capitan Southeast Face wigball Mescalito
2011-05 Sunkist, May 2011 - Threading the Needle Between Storms El Capitan Southwest Face Gagner Sunkist
2010-09 The 40th Bday Climb El Capitan Southeast Face didder Mescalito
2009-04 Alone on the Prow, my first solo. Washington Column East Face hoipolloi The Prow
2009-07 A journey to Never Never Land El Capitan Southwest Face hoipolloi Never Never Land
2007-06 Electric Ladyland, Theron's first wall/my first photo tr Washington Column East Face erik sloan Electric Ladyland
2010-01 Afroman in Winter Washington Column East Face erik sloan Afroman
2008-03 Gold Wall, big trundler(attempt) Gold Wall erik sloan Gold Wall
2008-07 West Buttress, weekender El Capitan Southwest Face erik sloan West Buttress
2008-08 West Buttress, clean up climb El Capitan Southwest Face erik sloan West Buttress
2008-04 Nose 2x April/May '08 El Capitan The Nose erik sloan The Nose
2007-11 Liberty Cap, full weekender Liberty Cap erik sloan Southwest Face
2009-10 Octopussy, laid back style El Capitan Southwest Face erik sloan Octopussy
2009-07 Grape Race, mostly solo El Capitan Southwest Face erik sloan Grape Race
2008-10 Lost World: a love story El Capitan Southwest Face erik sloan Lost World/Squeeze Play
2010-02 Great Slab Route, mostly solo Washington Column East Face erik sloan Great Slab Route
2007-08 South Face the easy way Washington Column South Face erik sloan South Face
2009-09 Pegasus Quarter Dome erik sloan Pegasus (aka North Face)

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.