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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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May 19, 2009 - 01:27pm PT
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Wiessner Route.
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tomtom
Social climber
Seattle, Wa
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May 19, 2009 - 01:33pm PT
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The Beckey Route is pretty overused.
That and the North Face.
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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May 19, 2009 - 02:38pm PT
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Welcome to the Gorge
Welcome to the Gunks
Welcome to Joshua Tree
Welcome to Dome Rock
I actually like these.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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May 19, 2009 - 02:40pm PT
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Welcome to Courtright...
The "welcome to...." thing is a Herb Laeger signature.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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May 19, 2009 - 02:46pm PT
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Thought about "Riders on the Storm" for this new route...
figured it was played out.
Settled on "Debra" instead.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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May 19, 2009 - 03:02pm PT
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Ha! 'Welcome To Exile' (Exile Dome)
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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May 19, 2009 - 03:03pm PT
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What? Riders on Debra?
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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May 19, 2009 - 03:04pm PT
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'Nosferatu'.....3 different area (all in Cali)
damn.... really?
That's the name we used on our route on the Vampire Spire in NWT.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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May 19, 2009 - 03:07pm PT
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"That is pretty creative. Especially when they shave little designs"
Spoken with such authority on the matter. :)
Kris,
Is it true Laeger started the "Welcome to..." Tradition?
I like the additional "Now Go Home!" names.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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May 19, 2009 - 04:43pm PT
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A little quick research finds that "Welcome to the Gunks" is probably the first, done by Jim Kolocotronis and Andy Cairns in '73. Herb, Dave Houser and Jan McCollum apperently did Welcome to Josh in about '77. Laeger did Welcome to Dome and ...to Courtright in '83 and '84.
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wildone
climber
GHOST TOWN
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May 20, 2009 - 07:35am PT
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Inamed a route on Pulpit Rock, "You Will Burn in Hell For Your Sins". Do you think there's another one somewhere?
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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May 20, 2009 - 11:41am PT
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Gib Lewis, Jim Wilson and I did a route at Suicide Rock in 1976, which we called, “Quiet Desperation.” It had delicate footwork, a puzzling sequence, and hard crimping. The difficulties seemed more cerebral than physical, and so we thought the name described the experience of the climb pretty well. The name is, of course, a reference to Thoreau’s, “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
Since then I have noted climbs with the same name in Wisconsin, Colorado, and the UK. Must be a good name, given its popularity.
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Greg Barnes
climber
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May 20, 2009 - 11:55am PT
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Quiet Desperation 5.9 - Stately Pleasure Dome, Tuolumne - Jim Pettigrew, Dave Bircheff, August 1972.
Backed off it once, since it was way worse for the follower and I was told in no uncertain terms to reverse the 5.9 downclimb and get back to the belay (easy to bail up to S crack). Not much pro under that big arch...and even if there had been, you really want to lead not follow. Good thing too, since later on we discovered that the bolted belay at the end of the pitch had one completely sheared off bolt and one halfway-out 1/4" bolt.
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phillygoat
climber
portland,
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May 20, 2009 - 12:10pm PT
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JRR Tolkien-themed route names are pandemic.
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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May 20, 2009 - 12:22pm PT
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Greg,
I wondered whether anyone had used that name before we did and voila!
Rick
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mooch
Big Wall climber
The Immaculate Conception
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Topic Author's Reply - May 20, 2009 - 03:16pm PT
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Ha! 'Welcome To Exile' (Exile Dome)
You forgot 'Welcome to Lost Eagle' (5.10a/b X).
Here's a truly "abused" root name.......'Beat Your Step Child Lately?" (5.11a, somewhere outside of Shaver Lake ;)
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Jul 18, 2010 - 08:58pm PT
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Well, I think I'll keep it "Thief in the Night" just to screw with the control freaks out there...
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deepnet
Boulder climber
CA
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Jul 18, 2010 - 11:09pm PT
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We put up a junky little route at mission gorge ca. '79 or so
and named it "sloppy seconds" pretty lame I know.
We originally named it "Boner's Knot"
Should of kept it!
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Floyd Hayes
Trad climber
Hidden Valley Lake, CA
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Jul 19, 2010 - 01:10pm PT
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Surely the most common route and boulder problem name is "Unnamed." I wish guidebook and website authors would just coin a name for all of them--which would make it easier to keep track of climbs for those of us who keep a climbing journal.
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KP Ariza
climber
SCC
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Jul 19, 2010 - 01:14pm PT
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CF is right, Meltdown.....there is three in YNP alone
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