Welcome to YosemiteBigwall.com!

YosemiteBigwall.com is a community space for collecting and sharing Yosemite Bigwall climbing information. This new website contains basic information about Yosemite Bigwall climbing routes(Washington Column’s at least ☺)—detailed topos, trip reports, critical beta, photos, and route history—all available publicly, free-of-charge.

Till now, information about Yosemite bigwalls has been scattered across many websites, making it is difficult to find information about many(or most!) of the routes. A commercial interest or mentality has prevailed among these websites—routes that are popular and get climbed often are easy to find basic information for, while routes that are seldom climbed languish in out-of-print guidebooks, in the notebooks of the first ascentionists, or are buried in ‘obscure’ sections of websites.

I believe each bigwall route in Yosemite is an awesome contribution to the Park, and is a rich piece of our human history here. Each route deserves to be accessible to anyone desiring to climb it—the same access afforded the first ascentionist(s). I’ve helped create Yosemitebigwall.com toward that goal. Now we have a place where first ascentionist(s) can share as much information about their climb as they want. With the History section of each route we’ve assured that original topos and FA stories/photos will be preserved entirely, and will be as easily accessible as more current information.

This is a community work in progress, and as they say, “it takes a village to raise a website” (or is that “a child?”), so please, jump on in and join the fun. If you pioneered one or more bigwall routes in Yosemite, please share information about your climb. If you climbed a bigwall route and found the topo to be inaccurate, or have photos, beta or stories you’d like to share, please do so. With your help, YosemiteBigwall.com will continue to develop into a community supported and run website for all Yosemite Bigwall beta—a true online Yosemite Bigwall library.

Special thanks to Tom Lambert(ultriaskier.com) for his sage advice/expertise, and to James McBryan(twomile.com) for developing the site.

Thanks and enjoy the site,

Erik Sloan