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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Charlie was right!
Although, "From Bad Traverse" and "Black and Decker" are great names.
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Erik Christensen
Boulder climber
Bozeman, MT
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I've got to put another vote in for the Central Pillar of Frenzy.
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Thanks, Eric.
One of the best names in the Valley to me is "Final Exam," on Half Dome. But, it is just an okay name unless you connect it to the routes on Arch Rock with 'school' names (Entrance Exam, Midterm, Quicky Quizzes, The Application) and get the joke.
Klemens humor.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Baby Huey Smokes An Anti-Pipeload
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Dolomite
climber
Anchorage
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Drummond's "Dream of White Horses" has always been on my list (probably won't get to it in this lifetime, bummer).
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Roger
The Final Exam is also a great little boulder problem/short
route up Boulder Canyon on Castle Rock, put in by Robbins & Ament in '64. My first 5.10
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the Fet
Supercaliyosemistic climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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I think this has come up before...
I'll say the same thing again.
One Hand Clapping.
It's a great realization when you realize why it was named that.
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Gagner
climber
Boulder
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Hey Ron - Since you started with a quote from Charlie - in the early 80's I wrote two articles for Rock & Ice on climbing in the Tetons - one on rock routes and the other on alpine routes. Charlie was away on a trip and I wanted to include a route he had done with Allison Sheets. Since I couldn't get ahold of him to ask what he had named the route I called it in the article: "Fowled Sheets". He was a bit pissed off with me when he got back - he he.
Paul
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Redlands
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Cunning Stunt - Index, WA.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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"No mistake or big pancake
Edging skills or hospital bills"
Add to that More Monkey than Funky. Always thought that Josh had a monopoly on clever route names.
I'll toss in one non-Josh just for balance: Crash and Burn (the Gunks). If you've seen pictures of the route you'll see how right the name is.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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"Sway it Ain't So" - a blocky arete in Connecticut which seems to move slightly when you are on it!
> Cunning Stunt - Index, WA.
Actually there is a route with the same name done in Boulder, CO, 1975, predating the one in Index by about 13 years.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Bottomless Topless
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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A friend was suffering marital problems a number of years ago.
He put up a route called "The Separated Reality"
After the marriage ended he had a girlfriend named Helen for a while. When that was over he put a climb called "Helen Damnation"
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 2, 2009 - 05:17pm PT
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Some of my own humble submissions;
PYGMY ALIEN
JIMMY THE GEEK
BABES IN THAILAND
PRODIGAL SUN (faces northeast)
SHEER LUNACY
MIDGETS WITH WIDGETS
IRON MESSIAH (all needed hardware "nailed" into place)
KRACKATOEA (2" wide crack)
PERVERTICAL SANCTUARY
WHERETOGO (next to Wendego)
OPEN FIRE (in the banned area of Valley of Fire)
BARBARIAN CADETS
PRESTIDIGITATOR
TROUBLE NO MORE (a climb to a rap point)
EXTRA TEXTURE
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originalpmac
Trad climber
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'Sailing the Seas of Cheese"
oh, wait, that was a Primus album. But it would be a great name for a route.
I think stuff like "Lurking Fear" and Seas of Dreams, and stuff like that is classic, as well as anything to do with phsycadelics
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Cheeses of Nazareth.
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Slabby D
Trad climber
B'ham WA
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"Battered Sandwich"
A relatively obscure 5.9 fist-to-squeeze chimney at Index, WA. The name made complete sense by the time I got to the top!
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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"Chalk up another one" --clever
"The Satanic Traverses" -- back when Salman Rushdie had a price on his head
"Carabiner Cruise" -- one of mine
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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One of my favorite route names is "All Chalk, No Action" A nice little 12a in Little Cottonwood Canyon that gets many people doing exactly what the name says.
Another that follow a similar theme of being descriptive
All Bosched Up - one many sport routes at the CIty of Rocks.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Upper Fupa, North Dakota
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Human Chew Toy
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