Bucket List?

If you had to name 5 routes (sport, trad or even boulders) that you must climb before you die, which routes would it be on that list?

walker spur, beckey-choiunard, cassin, polar circus, scenic cruise

I don't know but since I am 53 I guess I'd better get started climbing them.

The Prow, Astroman, Romantic Warrior, Moonlight Buttress, and Positive Vibrations.

Enter the dragon, the fins; salathe free ledge to ledge, Yosemite; All along the Watchtower, bugaboos; The great Canadian Knife, cirque of the unclimbables; and all the new routes I have yet to find.

Hmm... dang, so many routes....

Freerider, VI, 5.13a Yosemite

Jolly Roger VI, 5.11, A5, Yosemite

Moonlight Buttress, V 5.13a, Zion

A 5.12 route on the Diamond

Something 5.12 on the Hulk

Astroman 5.11c, Yosemite
Al Centro y Adentro 5.11c, Valle Cochamo
Freerider 5.13a, Yosemite
D7, 5.11c, The Diamond
Pink Route, 5 spots, at the gym

Mark Hudon wrote:Moonlight Buttress, V 5.13a

Assuming a bucket list is something that actually might get ticked off...

Astroman: sorry I haven't hopped on this sooner but wanted to leave it for when I could make a proud attempt, not dog my way up it.

Positive Vibrations, .11b

The Nose: Four prior attempts either shut down by rain, a cut haul line or parties poaching our fixed lines.

Another big aid line on the Captain: I've done the Shield, Zodiac, the PO Wall, but would like to do another proud (but not psycho) route like Iron Hawk, Lost in America.

Lots of other things I could add, but that's a good start.

Edit: Major omission: Don Juan Wall (the Needles), 11b.

Great topic.

How about something on Twin Owls at Lumpy Ridge - "CRACK OF FEAR"

Stoned Oven

Casarotto's N. Pillar on the Fitz

Romantic Warrior

Zenith

Something long and proud in the Verdon
or Taghia

Cups to the Sky, Indian Creek

Rob Dillon wrote: Cups to the Sky, Indian Creek

Located, but have yet to send.

You'll know when I head out there cuz I'll be borrowing everyone's blue camalots. (Although with my eye, it'll probably turn out to be BD #4's)

Romantic Warrior, for the time being. Partly because I had a perfect chance to get on it last summer & I didn't due to a screw up on my end. All the others I've really wanted to get on I already have. And looking back, Moonlight Buttress was the only one I was really glad I got on purely for the sake of the quality of the route. Many others, even the likes of Astroman, satisfied my curiosity and/or were cherished for the climbing experience.

I'm sure there will be many routes I'd like to get on & be able to send in the future, but there are far more destinations I want to visit (some again) before I die.

Lightning Bolt Cracks, North Six Shooter Peak, Indian Creek

The Diamond, Colorado (any route)

The Predator 13b, Rumney

Regular NW Face

That splitter on the N face of one of the Early Winter Spires at WA Pass...the obvious one, i think it's like 10d/11a

A number of the ultra-obvious North American ultra-classics have already been mentioned (Moonlight, Freerider, B-C, RNWFHD, Astroman, Romantic Warrior, various routes on the Diamond and the Hulk). Several of these are on my life-list too.

A few others that are high up in my life-list:

Original Route, Rainbow Wall, Red Rocks
El Sendero Luminoso, EPC
University Wall, Squamish
Northern Lights, Squamish
NIAD

(An interesting side note: it seems like most of the routes on my lifetime to-do list are on the "notable Honnold solos" list. This includes Rainbow Wall, Half Dome, Moonlight, Astroman, El Sendero, the Phoenix, Freeway. The man has good taste in routes; you could make a damn fine tick list by just trying to repeat, with a rope, the routes he has soloed.)

The Nose (El Capitan)

University Wall (Stawamus Chief)

Hummingbird Ridge (Mt Logan)

K2 (got a couple or three routes in mind, none set in stone)

Mt Waddington (again, no particular route, but human-powered all the way from the ocean, maybe farther via kayak)

That's five, but I'm also hell-bent on climbing this stupid little V6 sit-down start problem near my house even if it takes the rest of my life!

Also, since this list is entirely long-route based, I though I might add something different: a sport climbing bucket list. These routes are worthy too, although perhaps more specific to the individual. A classic long route like Astroman is a worthy outing for any climber, while a worthy goal in sport climbing is perhaps specific to one's goals and abilities. For me, the "bucket list" sorts of routes, of any sort, are those that are a little ways out of reach right now, but not preposterously so; they are motivating routes to train for, and to try to do in 5 years. Anyway, 5 sport routes for the bucket list:

Proper Soul, NRG
Living in Fear, Rifle
Present Tense, Rifle
T-Rex, Maple Canyon
Dinosoar Highway, Horne Lake

Freeblast/The Crucifix/Basketcase/Astroman/The Shield in Yosemite
Venturi Effect and Sun Spot on The Hulk
North Buttress of Mt. Hunter
Something on Trango/Nameless towers
Cerro Torre via Ragni
Shivling
K2
Polar Circus
Machapuchare
Eiger/Matterhorn
Alpamayo (X)
Positive Vibrations (X)
Beckey Chouinard (X)
Rostrum (X)
Steck Salathe (X)
Denali (X)
Cleopatra's Needle (X)
The Nose on El Cap/NW Face of HD (X)

JCM wrote: Anyway, 5 sport routes for the bucket list: Proper Soul, NRG Living in Fear, Rifle Present Tense, Rifle T-Rex, Maple Canyon Dinosoar Highway, Horne Lake

SirTobyThe3rd wrote:(A bunch of routes...)