Ribbon Falls

Routes

 

All Routes (left to right)
Laughing at the Void VI 5.7 A2+

FA:May 2000. Jerry, Sigrid, and Lynnea Anderson
Reason Beyond Insanity VI 5.7 A3+

FA:October 1995. Sean Easton, Dave Sheldon
Hole in the Head VI 5.7 A3

FA:Sept. 1996. Jeff Benowitz, Rick Carlton Studley III
Hole in the Sky VI 5.10b A3

FA:October 1991. Kevin Fosburg, Paul Turecki
Rainbows VI

FA:June 1971. Ken Boche, Russ McLean
West Portal VI

FA:Sept. 1963. Chris Fredericks, Steve Roper
Dyslexia VI 5.10d A4

FA:August 1985. Ellie Hawkins
Keel Haul VI 5.10 A3

FA:1972. Charlie Porter, Walter Rosenthal
Gates of Delirium V 5.12c

FA:2002. Sean Jones
The Ecstacy of Gold VI 5.10 A3

FA:May 1994. Eric Rasmussen, Doug Olmsted
Solar Power Arete VI 5.10a A3+

FA:October 1991. Kevin Fosburg, Paul Turecki
Gold Ribbon VI 5.10 A3

FA:May 1976. Jim Bridwell, Mike Graham
Vain Hope

FA:May 1970. Royal Robbins, Jim Bridwell, Kim Schmitz
East Portal VI

FA:June 1964. Al Steck, John Evans, Chuck Pratt, Dick Long...

Star Drive

FA:1983. Mike Corbett, Steve Bosque
Crack Me Up

FA:1983. Mike Corbett, Ernie Maylon

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

 

Book/website updates available at www.facebook.com/Yosemitebigwall

 

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.