Showing all 99 routes.
| Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | ||
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| West Face | |||||
| 5.10 A3+ VI | Mr Midwest
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| 5.10a A3 VI | Realm of the Flying Monkeys
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| 5.9 A4 VI | Mirage
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| 5.7 C2 VI | ★★★ Lurking Fear
FA: Dave Bircheff, Phil Bircheff & Jim Pettigrew, 1976 FFA: Tommy Caldwell & Beth Rodden, 2006 | 610m, 19 | |||
| Southwest Face | |||||
| 5.10 A3+ VI | Lost World
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| 5.10 A3+ VI | Squeeze Play
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| 5.10 A4 VI | Hole World
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| 5.9 A3 VI | West Buttress
| 610m, 20 | |||
| 5.9 A3 VI | For Your Eyes Only (aka Octopussy)
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| 5.7 A3 VI | Never Never Land
| 820m, 20 | |||
| 5.7 A3 VI | Aquarian Wall
| 850m, 20 | |||
| 5.10 A5 VI | Winds of Change
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| 5.10+ A4 VI | Wings of Steel
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| 5.7 A3 VI | ★★ Horse Chute
| 610m, 20 | |||
| 5.9 A3 VI | Horse Play
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| 5.8 A3 VI | ★★ Dihedral Wall
| 730m, 26 | |||
| 5.7 A4 VI | ★★ Cosmos
| 730m, 24 | |||
| 5.8 A3 VI | ★★ Excalibur
| 820m, 28 | |||
| 5.11c A4+ VI | Bermuda Dunes
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| 5.9 A4 VI | The Heart Route
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| 5.9 A4 VI | Pacemaker
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| 5.8 A3+ VI | ★★ Son of Heart (aka Heart Woute)
| 820m, 29 | |||
| 5.8 A3 VI | Sunkist
| 880m, 31 | |||
| 5.10 A5 VI | Jolly Roger
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| 5.7 A3 VI | ★ Magic Mushroom
FA: Hugh Burton & Steve Sutton, 1972 | 880m, 31 | |||
| 5.9 A3+ VI | ★★★ The Shield
| 880m, 30 | |||
| 5.9 A4 VI | Dorn Direct
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| 5.9 A2 VI | ★★ Muir Wall
| 1100m, 33 | |||
| 5.9 C4 VI | ★★★ Muir Wall (All Clean)
The Muir Wall is one of El Cap's greatest natural lines, second only to the Salathé. It boasts large clean corners from the ground to summit with moderate yet sustained climbing. This route is substantially more involved than the Nose or Salathé but technically easier than the Shield or Zodiac. | 1000m, 33 | |||
| 5.9 C2 VI | ★★★ Salathé Wall
FA: Royal Robbins, Tom Frost & Chuck Pratt, 1961 FFA: Todd Skinner & Paul Piana, 1988 | 880m, 35 | |||
| 5.8 C2 VI | ★★★ Triple Direct (Salathe/Muir/Nose)
| 880m, 30 | |||
| 5.9 A2 VI | Grape Race
| 430m, 12 | |||
| 5.10 A4 VI | Ephemeron
Parallels 'The Nose' FA: Brandon Adams & Kristoffer Wickstrom, 28 Apr 2018 | 22, 35 | |||
| 5.9 C2 VI | ★★★ The Nose
On the tick list of most aspiring climbers, The Nose is a long, sustained and beautiful climb. An incredible line straight up an intimidating wall with many memorable pitches. The Nose can be done big wall style, or it can be done "Nose In a Day"(NIAD) style. The climbing has a surprising amount of splitter cracks with many pitches of sustained hands/fists cracks. If you are aiding, it can be done with some mandatory 5.9 climbing and mandatory C2 sections. Much of the C2 on The Nose is actually quite soft for the grade due to the abundance of fixed gear and long pieces of tat which avoids some of the more difficult sections. Don't underestimate the difficulty of a summit however, you need to have many technical skills dialed, such as pendulums, hauling, lowerouts etc. in order to make it. You also need to move fast, most parties bail not because they don't have the ability to do a single pitch, but because they are moving to slow. Practice lots and move quick. Speed Records
FA: Warren Harding, Wayne Merry & George Whitmore, 1958 FFA: Lynn Hill, 1993 | 1000m, 31 | |||
| 5.11b | ★★★ The Freeblast (1st 10 of Salathe)
| 400m | |||
| Southeast Face | |||||
| 5.10 A4 VI | ★★★ The Real Nose
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| 5.11b A4+ VI | Genesis
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| 5.8 A2 VI | ★★ New Dawn
| 820m, 28 | |||
| 5.7 A3 VI | ★★★ Mescalito
FA: Charlie Porter, Hugh Burton, Steve Sutton & Chris Nelson, 1973 | 820m, 26 | |||
| 5.10 A3 VI | Hockey Night in Canada
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| 5.9 A3 VI | ★★ Wall of the Early Morning Light
| 820m, 27 | |||
| 5.10 A4+ VI | Space
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| 5.8 A4 VI | ★★★ South Seas
| 760m, 24 | |||
| 5.9 A3 VI | ★★★ Pacific Ocean Wall
| 760m, 27 | |||
| 5.9 A4 VI | ★★ Sea of Dreams
| 730m, 27 | |||
| 5.8 A2 VI | ★★★ North America Wall
One of the most historic routes on 'El Capitan'. FA: Golden Age, Yvon Chouinard, Tom Frost, Chuck Pratt & Royal Robbins, 1964 | 730m, 27 | |||
| 5.8 A4 VI | ★★ Wyoming Sheep Ranch
| 670m, 23 | |||
| 5.10 A4+ VI | Heartland
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| 5.10 A4+ VI | New Jersey Turnpike
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| 5.9 A4 VI | ★★ Atlantic Ocean Wall
| 610m, 25 | |||
| 5.9 A4 VI | ★★★ Iron Hawk
| 610m, 26 | |||
| 5.9 A4 VI | ★★ Native Son
| 580m, 17 | |||
| 5.7 A4 VI | Scorched Earth
| 550m, 15 | |||
| 5.7 A4 VI | ★★ Aurora
| 610m, 16 | |||
| {AU} YDS:5.9 AID:A3+ NCCS:VI | ★★★ Tangerine Trip
FA: Charlie Porter & John-Paul de St. Croix, 1973 | 620m, 17 | |||
| 5.9 A4 VI | ★★ Lost in America
| 610m, 16 | |||
| 5.7 A4 VI | ★★ Zenyatta Mondatta
| 550m, 16 | |||
| {AU} YDS:5.7 AID:A4 COM:VI | ★★★ The Shortest Straw
| 550m, 16 | |||
| 5.7 A2 VI | ★★★ Zodiac
FA: Charlie Porter | 550m, 16 | |||
| 5.9 A5 VI | Surgeon General
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| 5.7 A4 VI | ★★ Lunar Eclipse
| 550m, 18 | |||
| 5.10 A5 VI | Born Under a Bad Sign
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| 5.8 A5 VI | Plastic Surgery Disaster
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| 5.9 A4+ VI | Bad Seed
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| 5.9 A4 VI | Bad to the Bone
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| 5.8 A3 VI | ★★ Eagle's Way
| 550m, 19 | |||
| 5.9 A5 VI | On the Waterfront
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| 5.11 A5 VI | High Plains Dripper
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| 5.10 A4 VI | Pressure Cooker
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| 5.10 A5 VI | Get Whacked
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| 5.10 A4 VI | Waterfall Route
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| 5.11 A4 VI | Chinese Water Torture
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| Delectable Pinnacle | |||||
| A3 | ★ Aid Route
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| Southwest Base Area | |||||
| A4 | La Escuela Direct
FA: Eric Beck & Steve Williams, 1969 | ||||
| A1 | ★ Dihedral Wall Base
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| Southeast Base Area | |||||
| A3 | Negative Pinnacle, Left
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| A4 | Negative Pinnacle, Center
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| Schultz's Ridge East Side | |||||
| 5.11c A3 | Abazaba
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| A4 | Creamatorim
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| Miscellaneous | |||||
| A5 VI | Abstract Impressionist
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| 5.9 A3 VI | Allied Forces
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| 5.9 A4 VI | Continental Drift
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| 5.9 A5 VI | Disorderly Conduct
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| 5.7 C2 | ★★ El Cap Tree
| 120m | |||
| 5.13c A0 VI | El Nino
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| A4 VI | Every Man for Himself
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| 5.8 A4 | ★★ Flight of the Albatross
| 880m, 21 | |||
| 5.9 A5 VI | Gulf Stream
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| 5.9 A5 VI | Heavy Metal and Tinker Toys
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| 5.7 A4 VI | Kaos
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| A4 VI | Ned's Excellent Adventure
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| 5.8 A5 VI | Nightmare on California St.
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| 5.11 A4+ VI | Reach for the Sky
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| 5.9 A5 VI | Reticent
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| 5.7 A5 | ★★ Reticent Wall
FA: and then most of the 14 pitches above that route’s Lay Lay Ledge are rated A3 or harder, Steve Gerberding, Lori Reddel & Scott Stowe, 1995 | 820m, 21 | |||
| A5 VI | Ring of Fire
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| 5.11c A4+ VI | The Central Scrutinizer
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| {AU} YDS:5.8 AID:A3 | ★★★ Tribal Rite
| 880m, 29 | |||
| 5.9 A3+ VI | Virginia
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