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Speed Record

05h:15mins
Dean Potter, Timmy O'Neill
Oct 2002

Solo Record

22h:20mins
Aug 1987

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Total Ascents Logged

5
  • Sep 22, 2012 19h:30mins -- Adam Long, Scott Lappin
    Great one day climb up an incredible wall
  • Jun 02, 2010 2.5 days -- Roger Putnam, Eric Grove, Harrison Forrester
    Great time with good bros. Hiked down the back to a food/booze cache at the Snow Creek Cabin.
  • Jun 2008 2.5 days -- David Allfrey, Matt Touchette
  • Oct 05, 1994 4 days -- Erik Sloan, Jeff Benowitz
    An awesome backcountry Wall. So much Sunshine! Love the Hawk flybys, and the cool ledges. The Alpine Nose, for sure. We hiked in to do climb Quarter Dome but after a cold bivy beneath this beauty we switched objectives.
  • Apr 1979 5 days -- Paul Gagner, Steve "Shipoopi" Schneider
    Our first wall - in epic conditions.

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

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2. 08h:30mins Peter Croft, Dave Shultz Sep 1990 (first one day ascent)

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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.

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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.