Vanished Routes - How many have you done?

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Texplorer

Trad climber
Sacramento
Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 28, 2015 - 12:46pm PT
Sure, a hold breaks every now and then but how many have you done where a large part of the route is different or totally gone? I only have a few but bet several of you Donini-types have quite the list.

Ones I can think of on my list:
RNW Halfdome
Cobra - Fisher Towers
Limp Dick - Skinner Butte, OR
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
Shitalkqua, WA
Jul 28, 2015 - 01:14pm PT
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1398290&tn=0&mr=0
looks easy from here

climber
Ben Lomond, CA
Jul 28, 2015 - 01:17pm PT

Ha. The second post in that thread is a link to a third thread.

Edit: On topic, ummm, zero.
Brokedownclimber

Trad climber
Douglas, WY
Jul 28, 2015 - 01:17pm PT
The entire lower section of the Northcutt-Carter Route on Hallet Peak in RMNP fell off several years ago. The route as originally established is...gone.
caughtinside

Social climber
Oakland, CA
Jul 28, 2015 - 01:36pm PT
Lost a few that got buried in a quarry.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jul 28, 2015 - 01:40pm PT
Hell, I've climbed mountains that don't exist any more. Well, one anyway.
nature

climber
Boulder, CO
Jul 28, 2015 - 02:21pm PT
St. Helens?
Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
Jul 28, 2015 - 02:49pm PT
Ones I have climbed that have changed/disappeared:
 Mt. St. Helens - still there but a lot shorter
 Half Dome, RNWF - missing ledge and chimney
 Parkline Slab, Teter Tower - final tower fell off, the bolts on the main wall are still there. (Climbed after it fell off)
 Royal Arches - used the rotten log but it's gone now; it affects 2 pitches
 Mickey's Beach - Scorpio
 Peshastin Pinnacles - Trigger Finger
 Seneca Rocks - The Gendarme
 Cannon Mountain - Old Man
improved links:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1398290/Dude-Your-Route-Fell-Down-Post-Up
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/203132/Last-and-First-Ascents
wivanoff

Trad climber
CT
Jul 28, 2015 - 03:12pm PT
How about "radically changed"?

A route (appropriately enough) called TROLL. There were two tall free standing stacked blocks at an inside corner and then a hand crack above. In 1982 someone used a car jack to topple them and "improve" the route.
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Jul 28, 2015 - 03:12pm PT
The Rotten Log, (Royal Arches)

The killer cracks, J Tree.


Kris' photo from another thread

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1398290/Dude-Your-Route-Fell-Down-Post-Up
StefanS

Trad climber
Leavenworth WA
Jul 28, 2015 - 03:58pm PT
Forsythe Glacier on Mt St Helens, vaporized.

Skyline Route in Pheshastin Pinnacles, first pitches are talus.
drunkenmaster

Social climber
santa rosa
Jul 28, 2015 - 04:49pm PT
First and last ascent of "Remember Tomorrow" V6 Gualala CA! I took my buddy out to show him and repeat it and it had been taken out to sea in a huge storm when the river mouth opened wide and swallowed it whole :)
ECF

Big Wall climber
Colona, CO
Jul 29, 2015 - 04:04am PT
Space.
Surgeon General.

Old man of the Mountains, NH
Andy Middleton

Trad climber
Cow Hampshire
Jul 29, 2015 - 06:54am PT
ya there are a dozen plus routes i've climbed on Cannon cliff in NH that have disappeared or been significantly altered, some of them more than once..... a lot of them were pretty nice too.
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Jul 29, 2015 - 07:42am PT
All of my favorite routes have vanished in the continental US... every single one. Usually during the Spring.

Some come back.
JimT

climber
Munich
Jul 29, 2015 - 11:25am PT
Jeez, we only bother to count our FA´s that have gone.My brother is on over 50 I´d guess. Comes of sea cliff climbing on limestone.
Dave Davis

Social climber
Seattle, WA
Jul 31, 2015 - 05:40pm PT
Apparently the Bonatti Pillar is no longer in place. That and Trigger Finger. There are a few pitches I recall that have had some big changes, but are still doable. Princely Ambitions at Index as well as the 2nd pitch of Town Crier.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Aug 1, 2015 - 03:42pm PT
I am an ice climber. all my leads fall down every year....
We got the 1st and 2nd ascent of this thing. major rock with two of our bolts fell a day or so after our 2nd ascent.
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Aug 1, 2015 - 04:11pm PT
What's that one at Vantage that some a-hole knocked over? In the Feathers, I think it's called? I only visited the area one time, but I climbed that one.

Cannon has many that are gone now.
Eric Beck

Sport climber
Bishop, California
Aug 1, 2015 - 04:22pm PT
Lower Cathedral Rock NF with Bridwell, 1966. 3rd and last ascent.

Mt St Helens.

World Trade Center, North Tower,.
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