Yosemite Falls Wall

Routes

 

All Routes (left to right)
In Justice For All VI A5

FA:2002. Eric Kohl
Wheel of Torture VI 5.7 A4

FA:October 1989. Eric Kohl
World of Pain VI 5.8 A5

FA:Sept. 1991. Eric Kohl
Waterfall Wall VI 5.9 A4+

FA:Sept. 1988. Rick Sylvester, Chauncey Parker
Via sin Aqua VI 5.10 A2

FA:Sept. 1970. Rick Sylvester, Bugs McKeith
Via sin Liquor VI 5.9 A4

FA:October 1988. Eric Kohl, Alan Humphrey
Miscreant Wall VI 5.9 A4

FA:1973. Bruce Hawkins, Keith Nannery
Misty Wall VI 5.9 A3 or 5.11d A0

FA:June 1963 Royal Robbins, Dick McCracken.

Electric Ocean VI 5.10 A4

FA:April 1992. Eric Kohl
Reckless Abandon VI 5.8 A4+

FA:Feb. 1991. Eric Kohl
Hurricane Jingus VI 5.9 A4

FA:June 1997. Eric Kohl, Bryan Law
Aqua Vulva VI 5.10 A4

FA:November 1989. Eric Kohl, John Middendorf
Rainbow V 5.10 A3

FA:1983. Paul Fida, Chris Freel
Yosemite Pointless V 5.9 A3

FA:May 1986. Bob Ost, Norman Boles
Seand Paradise VI

FA:April 1982. Knez Francel, Freser Marjan
Czech Route V 5.10 A3

FA:October 1978. Jan Porvazik, A. Behia
Reign in Blood VI A5

FA:August 2002. Eric Kohl
Dante's Inferno VI 5.9 A3

FA:June 1989. Eric Kohl

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.