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Rhodo-Router
Trad climber
Otto, NC
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Yeah! Dagger. Forgot about that one.
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Rhodo-Router
Trad climber
Otto, NC
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Paradise Lost.
Wavy Gravy on Scarface is kinda cool.
That crux pitch on the University Wall in Squamish that Peter Croft freed looks pretty damn amazing.
Haven't climbed D & T in Boulder but it looks really cool.
The Kor-Ingalls is pretty much a 250' corner stacked on top of a couple smaller ones.
And I have to climb the first 25 feet of Coyne Crack like a corner!
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Hardly Visible
climber
Port Angeles
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A few that I've enjoyed are 3rd pitch N. face Rostrum,I'd second Mellisa's Meat Grinder suggestion, Moby dick left (in a perverse sort of way), Over the Hill at Eldo, and Calamity Jam at Smith.
Nice geometry on that thing you posted a picture of Mike but that crack sure looks thin.
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Mike Dahlquist
Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
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Pitch 4, White Punks on Dope on Voodoo Dome in the Needles was really really fun.
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AndyG
climber
San Diego, CA
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Can't believe nobody's mentioned:
Incredible Hand Crack, Indian Creek. That was a beauty.
I also enjoyed
Oz,
Course and Buggy,
Open Book,
Crux pitch of Red Dihedral, Incredible Hulk,
El Camino Real at Tahquitz is also sweet.
Touch and Go at Josh is interesting because it seems to favor short people.
Andy
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Mungeclimber
Social climber
N. California
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Omg, I've never heard anyone say that about Touch and Go, but I had a heck of a time on it 6'1" and my buddy floated it and is 4-5" shorter than I.
I can't figure out why this would be?
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Dogger
Social climber
SE
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North Carolina "Inside" Classics
P1--Reflections
P1--Double Dihedrals
1st½ Fathom
P4--Blond Ambition
P1--Maginot Line
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Rhodo-Router
Trad climber
Otto, NC
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You might as well throw Invisible Airwaves and Electric Kool-Aid on that list. And the Womb, while we're at it. Bumblebee.
Someday I have do go back and do justice to the first pitch of Reflections. That may be the best 5.10 layback corner in the Carolinas, but I sure didn't treat it that way...I think the last pitch may actually be the WORST corner in the state :)
You think the Fathom is really that cool? It seems like you mostly just trot alongside it,not really climbing it like a true corner. When we finally hit the groove, though, I was sho 'nuf glad we came the way we did. Yikes.
Never done the Skyhedral, people say it's nice. The Double D, though, that one's proud. Plus Plus.
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AndyG
climber
San Diego, CA
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"Omg, I've never heard anyone say that about Touch and Go, but I had a heck of a time on it 6'1" and my buddy floated it and is 4-5" shorter than I.
I can't figure out why this would be?"
I think it's the stemming. The best stems are spaced for short legs.
Anyway, that's my $0.02.
Andy
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Petch
climber
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Mar 10, 2005 - 01:55pm PT
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Corner climbs in my canyon
1. Dog Party at the Box at the Leap
2. Hospital Corner
3. Grand Illusion
4. Tombstone Terror
5. Last pitch Bookmark
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Mar 10, 2005 - 02:26pm PT
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Representing the North East:
Pitch 3 of VMC Direct Direct, Cannon Cliff, NH
Pitch 3 of Recompense, Cathedral Ledge, NH
Pitch 3 of Diedre, Cathedral Ledge, NH
Book of Solemnity, Cathedral Ledge, NH
Duet Direct, Cannon Cliff, NH
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Mar 10, 2005 - 09:00pm PT
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This is a good troll that has produced a quality list. but I don't think it can ever be definitive.
There are too many good corners, corners are one of the best climb types ever.
There are whole areas that are mostly strong on corners; Devil's Tower, Paradise Forks, Indian Creek etc. Some areas have such an embarrasement of riches that they have great corners by default; Yosemite, Josh, Vedauwoo, the Blackhills, the Soups, the Sierra in general.
The coolest thing about corners are the stem rests; technique over power.
The five best? Anyone's selection will make a great to do list.
Dihedrals are a cornerstone of quality climbing;
splitters are cool too.
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Slab-Dyno
Trad climber
Dublin, PA
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Mar 10, 2005 - 09:30pm PT
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"Friday the 13th" at Vedauwoo, WY:
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Mar 10, 2005 - 11:34pm PT
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Great photo!
A truely great corner! But if you can only pick five, would it make the cut? Would it beat 4th of July? Agean stables(aka hesitation Blues?) Flying Butress? Grand Traverse? Hung like a horse? and that's just Vedauwoo! What about Black Corner? the first 5.11 pitch of Day in Court? and many more.
All corners are cool. Some are, however , more photogenic. Thanks for immortalizing that one better than I have seen it done before.
Early in, well, a while back in, my climbing career, I lead up over that first roof in the photo, placing a hex in the middle of it. I thought I had it made! I didn't. I tweaked, slipped, fell and slammed into the wall underneath.
Never a dull moment.
The second roof is almost a number grade easier than the first one.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Mar 11, 2005 - 12:43am PT
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that looks truely sick and I really want to visit Vedauwoo (that is how sick I am). I am assuming the route goes up and under that block then up over it top... don't tell me it follows the crack above though it would be too much.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Mar 11, 2005 - 01:42am PT
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Dude, don't ask what you don't want to hear. The route follows the crack to the summit. it's Vedauwoo, after all!
You'll love it!
That is such a cool photo, I feel 'blessed' to have had so many of my formative years, there.
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Joseph Myers
Trad climber
Antelope, CA
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Sep 27, 2006 - 02:43pm PT
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Hospital Corner. That route is wonderful, to say the least. But i would have to say El Matador would top it...even though i haven't done that one yet.
JM
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Ksolem
Trad climber
LA, Ca
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Sep 27, 2006 - 03:06pm PT
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As long as we're talkin' Tahquitz don't pass up The Green Arch...
In Josh, if you like Coarse and Buggy, go find Snake Book.
How about Spook Book, in the Needles...
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darod
Trad climber
South Side Billburg
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Sep 27, 2006 - 03:17pm PT
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Ant's Line 5.9
Roseland 5.9
Bird's Cage .10b
in the Gunks....great corner climbs...
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