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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 19, 2016 - 01:45am PT
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If you've named a first what inspired you for the route name. A rock band song, something else. I tended to the rock band theme but thought it was kind of stupid years later. Don't regret it now but I probably could have been more creative.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 19, 2016 - 06:05am PT
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STigma. Connected to Enigma. No mystery.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 19, 2016 - 06:35am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Ah yes there is this place. .
The Whole cliff I've named in keeping with the history of the now obliterated road, Sugar Hollow
The place is just so sweet.
Then as you, not mfm, I named every climb after the
Pink Floyd Album
Wish You Were Here!
All the climbs fit the lines
'Come on in'
' your gonna go far'
'Which one is pink?'
'Welcome to The Machine'
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Aug 24, 2016 - 11:27am PT
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My first FA or whatever was with pb. We were both going through some 'different' times that required a one short step at a time kind of mindset to move through it. The route's little crux also required a similar technique to pull through it. We called it Baby Steps; it has a different name in the guide but a fun little shorty nevertheless.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Aug 24, 2016 - 11:31am PT
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Throwdown at Poundtown
Maxie Bongaducci Goes to the Deserp
Wet Turkey and Trackmarkin' Tricams
Each name reflecting the FA experience. Many others remain nameless and likely to be renamed, retro-FA'd in the future as I generally work to LNT even on proper summits
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Aug 24, 2016 - 12:16pm PT
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Playing on existing phrases/songs/movies, etc...
EBGBs
Good to the last drop
Chalk up another one
Slip sliding away
Hang em high
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Aug 24, 2016 - 01:15pm PT
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Last two:
Nylabone
Animal Control
Edit- Forgot the last one – Poi Dog.
Climbed through a small patch of chickenheads that resembled the Hawaiian island chain .
Another summer of dog names.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Aug 24, 2016 - 01:22pm PT
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Dick Williams - Gunks:
3,4,5,6 over and out Porkypine.
A listing of grade difficulty, route description, and an unusual event topping out.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Aug 24, 2016 - 01:41pm PT
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Usually has something to do with what happens while climbing the route.
There's only been a couple times that I had something in mind ahead of time that I was waiting to use.
I also suck at coming up with names so I just hope that whoever I'm with has an idea.
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Aug 24, 2016 - 01:45pm PT
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Since Clark Canyon is on the page...
I always thought that:
coprophagic dilemma
was a good'n and quite appropriate.
disclaimer, it wasn't my route, I think it was one of Grant's.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 24, 2016 - 01:58pm PT
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I forget why we named Stoners' Highway...
Too funny, Kevin!
I've done several new routes, but never publicized them, and named very few. I guess I was subconsciously hoping that others would discover them and name them after me (e.g., the Eleazarian/Schiller, the way we talk about the Steck/Salathe). Thus far, no luck.
One name I do remember, on one of our secret cliffs along Old Railroad Grade Road was "Pissants' Pestilence," named for an obvious condition at a belay bush.
John
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Aug 24, 2016 - 02:29pm PT
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By Jupiter, There are Rings Around Uranus.
Herb Laeger came up with that one. A brilliant fusion of the recent (at the time) news from our space probe that there are rings around the seventh planet, and that I was leading a desperate thin face as he looked up from below. He shouted it up to me and I very nearly fell off.
Seamstress.
Julie Lazar came up with this name which describes the route perfectly. I had to climb the damn thing but she got to name it.
Seizure.
This one was odd. Being right of Rubicon, Charlie Crist and I sat there free associating anything to do with Julius Caesar. I had lost interest in that line of thought when Charlie blurted out "Seizure". In our somewhat altered state it seemed just right.
I guess my strategy is to let my partners name them.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Aug 24, 2016 - 04:12pm PT
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Fingers on a Pancake, a play on Figures on a Landscape, route I did in the Saline last year.
Monkey Tranquilizer was lifted off the wild writings and illustrations of a psych patient my friend treats for addiction.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 24, 2016 - 04:34pm PT
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^^^Brah! Don't drool on the holds!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Aug 24, 2016 - 05:29pm PT
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Moose, hah!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 24, 2016 - 05:37pm PT
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Something else
Generally but not always, a pun, or dual entendres, always a story, generally something about the characteristics or moves in the climb.
Literary allusions are common.
Sometimes names are topical with what was happening in climbing and the world at the time. Some of those, in hind sight were so current they've since lost their rellavency, but they're sometimes worth ferreting out. And researching.
Case in point;
There is a wall in the superstitions, past Zonerland, over the Peralta pass, before Weaver Needle, that we called the wall of world leaders. It started out with routes like Gengis Khan, and I forget what else. Two sport routes ( and this was in the very early days of sport climbing) Todd Swain and I put up were tragically contemporary in their names; 'Gore-Bosch-Ev', and 'And drop off'
Do those names make any sense today?
These were ground up routes that employed the use of Todd's Bosch. The first one I'd ever seen or touched. In those days they were the size and weight of lawn mowers.... It seemed.
But back to the name. So Gore Bosch Ev, Is a play on the name of soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev., a newsmaker of the day.
As a joke I built his name from Gore ( a future Vice peresidnet, but back then, half of a couple who was most famous for trying to Censor, or at least label, "explicit rock lyrics")
" Bosch" to celebrate our new toy, then deemed okay to use in the wilderness...
And Ev. For Evan Mecum, a crazy governor of Arizona who had recently been impeached and kicked out of office.
" And Drop Off"? Google Yuri Andropov, former soviet leader.
Edit;
One exception that I can think of, to the no rock names was, "Tarzan was a Bluesman", a rock song title, from the band Timbuktu three.
Also "Lola" in the San Rafael swell, which I had wanted to call, "Really got you."
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2016 - 09:24pm PT
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A friend of mine named a late 70's JT route Energy Crisis.
Now it might seem it just refers to it being strenuous but it was really about the gas shortage at the time. You could only buy gas when your license plate, odd or even number corresponded to the odd or even date of the month.
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Aug 24, 2016 - 10:12pm PT
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Just put up a new route at the Monastery in Colorado last week. At the time of the ascent, Evan Jager won the silver medal in the 3000m steeplechase at the Rio Olympics by going with the big boys and not just waiting to get dropped. It was an inspired run in an event that Americans haven't been a factor in for many, many years. So, I named the route 'Jagermeister' in his honor. Plus he's a fellow UW-Madison alumni!
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