10 best routes you climbed in 2011

The list. It's tradition, right? I had a great year of traveling and climbing some of the best routes in the southwest. Here are some of my favorites:

1. Layaway Plan, Indian Creek
2. Way Rambo, Indian Creek
3. Steck-Salathe, Yose (still bruised up, I think)
4. Salathe Wall, Yose (still tired)
5. Original Route, Rainbow Wall, Red Rocks
6. The Vampire, Tahquitz
7. Coarse and Buggy, Jtree
8. Rubicon, Jtree
9. Sidewinder Jtree
10. Prodigal Sun, Zion

Looking forward to a great new year! Hope everyone had a great year too. Psyched to read your list...

1. el matador, devil's tower
2. walt bailey's, devil's tower
3. ant's line, gunks
4. gamesmanship, adirondacks
5. south spire/spire #2 link up, needles SD

these are all i can think of right now. it wasnt a super busy climbing year. i didn't get to do a lot of climbing but luckily most of the climbing i did get to do was in far off locations that i hadn't visited before.

1. Beulah's Book - Red Rock
2. Keep on Struttin' - Gunks
3. Butterflies are Free - Partition linkup - Upper Washbowl, ADK's
4. Oddy's Crack of Horror - Crane Mtn, ADK's
5. Face to Face - Gunks
6. Tillman's Arete - ADK's
7. Mainliner - Lumpy Ridge
8. Mystery Achievement - Goodluck Cliff, ADK's
9. Rewritten - Eldo
10. Doubleissima - Gunks

Woo, end of year thread! It's snowing here in hellhio, and I still have a few more days before I get south to Chattaradiego, so all I'm doing is thinking about what I climbed. In rough order of sendage:

Apollo Reed, Summersville, WV
Skinner's Roof, City of Rocks, ID
Paleface, Logan Canyon, UT
Sessions, Uintas, UT
Lucky Streaks, Tuolomne, CA
Blues Riff, Tuolomne, CA
Freak Show, Lovers Leap, CA
Welcome to Ol Kentuck, RRG, KY
Bullet the New Sky, NRG, WV
Appalachian Spring, RRG, KY

1) Climbing outta bed for every damned alpine start in RMNP this season (20+?).
2) Climbing back into bed after every blessed day in RMNP.

In no particular order:
West Ridge, Mt Conness, Yosemite National Park, CA
Kieners Route, Longs Peak, CO
Quadrophenia, Hurricane Crag, ADKs, NY
Gamesmanship, Poke-O Moonshine, ADKs, NY
Catharsis, Poke-O Moonshine, ADKs, NY
Chapel Pond Slab, Regular Route, ADKs, NY(moonlight climb)
West Chimney, Bullwinkle Tower, Arches National Park, UT
The Footstool Right, El Cap base routes, Yosemite, CA
A Touch of Class, Moss Cliff, ADKs, NY(followed)
Weisner Route, Upper Washbowl Cliffs, ADKs, NY(solo)

Crest Jewel - Yosemite National Park
Mr. Natural - Yosemite National Park
Darth Vader's Revenge - Tuolumne
Golfer's Route - Tuolumne
Broadway - Ragged Mountain CT
Vector - Ragged Mountain CT
High Exposure - Gunks NY
Yellow Ridge - Gunks NY
Roseland - Gunks NY
Juniper Wall - Ragged Mountain CT

Some led, some followed, all lots of fun.

In chronological order:

Open Book- Tahquitz
Space Lord- Maple
Sprout-Maple
EKV- Tensleep (Or any one of various other great routes at Tensleep; this one can stand in for the rest)
Grand Wall- Squamish
Quarter Century Girl- Horne Lake
Code of Honor- Horne
Jesus Save the Pushers- Horne
Storm Troopers- Horne (I only spent two weeks at Horne, but the routes there blew my mind!)
The Hulk- Happy Boulders

1.) Freeway, Squamish
2.) McCrathy West Face, Devil's Tower
3.) Diving Board, Eldo
4.) Grand Wall, Squamish
5.) West Overhang, Maiden
6.) Flatiron Quinfecta
7.) Alaska Highway, Squamish
8.) Init Wantana, Redrocks
9.) Spear me the Details, RMNP
10.) Turnkorner, Lumpy

Humble compared to you guys but (I've got more than TEN) what fun for me:

Birdland
many burns at the Forks (Fingering the Avatar)
West Elden (Left Deception)
Overlook(Obediah)
Elysian Buttress
DAFF dome
Fairview
Crimson Chrysalis
First Ascent at 13mile
Sedona Spires(Scenic Cruise)

In no particular order:

J Crack, Lumpy Ridge
The Yellow Spur, Eldo
Serenity/Sons, Yosemite
Regular NW Face of Half Dome, Yosemite
Rutabaga, Squamish
Cleopatras Needle, Hyalite
Moons of Pluto, Smith
Apron Strings, Squamish
Toxic, Smith
Feast of Fools, Gunx

THis is fun although kind of a spray fest.. but it's not like anyone really cares anyway, so here goes'...

no particular order

1. The Nose on El Cap -Yosemite
2. Quien Sabe Glacier Route on Sahale Peak - Cascades
3. Liberty Cracks - Thin Red Line enchainment on Liberty Cap - Cascades
4. Liberty Ridge on Rainier
5. North Face of Shuksan - Cascades
6. Torment-Forbidden Traverse - Cascades
7. Johannesburg N Buttress - Cascades
8. N Buttress Couloir to N Buttress of Colchuck - Cascades
9. N/NW face of Sloan Peak - Cascades
10. Girth Pillar on Stuart - Cascades

this was the year i fell in love with the cascades

Nothing crazy classic so it would become more of a what tickled me list. That said, the yellow route at the gym was a pretty bad ass send for me. They were re-setting for the comp the next day, man!

Only ten? That's so hard. No particular order...

Golden Boy, RRG
Atomic Stetson, Wild Iris
Gods Own Stone, RRG
Table of Colors, RRG
Third Millennium, Monastery
40 Ounces of Justice, RRG
Pascal's Route, Linville Gorge
Churning in the Wake, Smith Rock
The Man Show, Little River Canyon
Transworld Depravity, RRG

Oh what the hell, everyone really does love a good spray fest.

1) just about every route I did at Trout Creek this year
2) Zenyatta Mondatta
3) The South Seas/Pacific Ocean Wall

No particular order

Castles in the Sand, Sedona
Cosmique Arete, French Alps
Traverse of the 3 Monts, French Alps
Paradise Lost, Paradise Forks
Fine Jade, Castle Valley
A gigantic overhanging tufa to a natural arch in Finale Ligure, Italy. This route was located in a limestone sink hole that you access through a cave.

Fewer than 10, but these are the ones that really stick out.

Alright...I'm a list nut. I narrowed it down to 11 plus an honorable mention (in no particular order):

1. Wolf’ Head, Wind River
2. Glass Menagerie, Looking Glass
3. Groover (both finishes), Laurel Knob
4. Whipping Boy, Whitesides
5. Yellow Spur, Eldo
6. North Ridge, Spearhead
7. Regular Route, Fairview Dome
8. East Buttress, Middle Cathedral
9. South Crack, Stately Pleasure Dome
10. Royal Arches, Royal Arches
11. Dark Shadows, Red Rocks
HM. Evan’s Arete, Jamestown (FA, named for my son)

Sour Mash, Red Rocks
Dave's Deviation-Piton Pooper-Upper Royal's Arch, Tahquitz
Stolen Chimney, Ancient Art, Moab
Outside Corner, JHCOB Wall, Big Cottonwood Canyon
Bird on a Wire, Joshua Tree
Funky Bolt, City of Rocks
Open Sesame, Tennessee Wall
Roy's Lament, New River Gorge
The Burn, Seneca
Karen Crack, Moonstone Beach, Redwood Coast

Quite a bit more modest assortment than most of you, I bought my trad rack in June after a year of sport climbing off and on. In chronological order, here's a list for the moderate climbers:

Junco (Rumney)
Lonesome Dove (Rumney)
Toe Jam (J Tree)
Northwest Buttress Tenaya Peak (Tuolumne)
Fingertrip (Tahquitz)
Coffin Nail + Traitor Horn (Tahquitz)
Church Bowl Lieback (Yosemite)
Bishops Terrace (Yosemite, followed)
Harry Daley (Yosemite, followed)
Overhang Bypass (J Tree)

For me, this was the year of taking everything I've learned through a ton of cragging over the past two years and putting it to use in a multipitch environment. Perceiving this progression and seeing how many awesome routes there are to throw one's self against was and is extremely inspiring.
(chronologically)
1. Fiddler on the Roof, Red Rock
2. Cloud Tower, Red Rock
3. Levitation 29, Red Rock
4. Alchemy, Trout Creek
5. Davis-Holland to Lovin' Arms, Index
6. Grand Wall, Squamish
7. Moonlight Buttress, Zion
8. Touchstone, Zion
9. The Silverback, Zion
10.Monkeyfinger, Zion

I literally haven't left the state of California in over a year, so these are all in CA...

1. Red Dihedral (aka "Yggdrasil"), Incredible Hulk
2. Wall of the Worlds, Calaveras Dome
3. The North Face, The Rostrum
4. Southeast Face, Clyde Minaret
5. Mister Witty, Happy Boulders
6. No Country For Old Men, Whitney Portal Buttress
7. Ghostrider, Whitney Portal Buttress
8. The Yawn, Medlicott Dome
9. The Enema, Cookie Cliff
10. Sands of Time, Calaveras Dome

And a few photos...

Incredible Hulk