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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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JimD,
Your 1st post here had me laughing. Way to jab at the sport climbers; even thou, we all have been found on them, from time to time.
DMT- That was a great bit of history there, and really an interesting post; especially with the pictures. I will always remember my one and only visit, to the Tennessee Wall. Amazing number of natural lines, packed into a small area.
I haven't done a new route in 20 years, but when I did, either my partner, or I would suggest a name. Usually it stuck.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Rad DMT.
I’m with gonamok- sometimes a name comes to you with no route, and you just gotta find the line.
Never been to big on the theme areas, but sometimes they yield some good names.
This summer, we’d come out of the backcountry to shocking news/ current events, every time it seemed.
Combined with the music I was listening to, some apropos names stuck.
Nazi Punks F uck Off
Bedtime For Democracy
Alt Left
Tied for first with that epic highball hueco Line I posted before, was this one-
One of most architecturally beautiful boulders I’ve ever had the pleasure of climbing.
I called it Nothing Gold Can Stay,
after the famous poem by Robert Frost.
Over romanticized? Maybe.
But not to me.
There were plenty of silly names given this summer as well.
Much like DMT’s T Wall story, when you discover an entire new area, when every day out is nothing but fa’s, naming stuff becomes more of a thing. Maybe there’s a method to the madness, maybe not.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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So I'm doing a first ascent with my friend Rick and he picked the name for the climb....Getting It Up For the Crack of Dawn.
Years later my daughter and her boyfriend are climbing there with the new guidebook and...
I told her to ask Rick, and no I never got to meet Dawn.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Uncleaned Unclimbed Unnamed
Any other route named that?
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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A very fun job. I usually go to my favorite literature. Especially Dan Simons books. (Texas Cyn, LA)
Often a fun name just occurs; "Eat or Be Eaten" the route at Stoney Point looks like a big bass fish from the right angle.
The poetry comes in when the last belay is rigged.
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kpinwalla2
Social climber
WA
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Like several others here, I'm not typically a fan of random names. I'd like the name to be related to the route in some way, perhaps by recalling something memorable that occurred during the development/FA of the route. For example: my wife was making the 2nd ascent of a new route we did at Smith. As she did, a random climber walked by and said "she's just floating up the rock, she's the helium woman". So the route was named "Helium Woman". A route I put up at Frenchman Coulee lures climbers into a position where they're literally straddling a steep arete, like they're sitting in a saddle, hence the name "Ride'em Cowboy". A route at Red Rocks completed during a sunset that outshone the glow of nearby Vegas, hence the name "Neon Sunset". "Theater of Shadows" became the name of a long route in City of Rocks where the late afternoon sun cast our shadows on an adjacent wall. On my initial rappel to investigate the route that became "Creature Feature" in Red River Gorge I encountered copious spiderwebs (and large spiders), pesky biting flies, a copperhead on a ledge, and huge millipedes. Sometimes it's fun to use puns that somehow relate to the route e.g. "Flaked Out" at Spring Mountain, OR, or "I'm Pro-Choss and I Bolt" at Wallula, WA.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Riverkern Annex)
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Sometimes it's fun to use puns that somehow relate to the route
Or if the formation's shape or character brings about route names. In one particular case, we named a formation The Dotard, after The Commander In Queef, due to the sloping right side which resembled Orange Julius's comb-over toupe'. The following routes make up The Dotard: 'Kakistocracy', 'Grab 'Em By The Toupe', 'Lucifer Sam' and 'Diggin' Dah-gina'. :)
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Mar 14, 2018 - 07:24pm PT
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Always. If it's worth climbing, then it's deserves a good name. My routes will be here long after I'm gone.
However you may sometimes have trouble convincing your partner!!
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DaveyTree
Trad climber
Fresno
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Jun 19, 2018 - 02:23pm PT
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I like to choose names after something that happens or a funny phrase someone said that day so when I read the name later the memories flood back. If I really can't pick one then I do have a running list of back-ups.
At times we run a theme to a wall which guides the names to follow.
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Barbarian
climber
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Jun 19, 2018 - 03:13pm PT
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Yo Ron...just add letters for new climbs. The one to the right of 14 is now 14a. Now that could confuse a few folks.
This can be fun if the route known as 10a is really a 12b. This can be a whole new way of sandbagging.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Jun 19, 2018 - 03:42pm PT
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I've liked visual and verbal malaprops. Conflating a couple of book titles seen out of the corner of my eye in an airport bookstore generated a name I used later: Black Elvis
I misheard something a friend shouted at me at a Soundgarden show back when they still played all ages clubs inside abandoned gas stations, somehow I was sure he said Squirt Theory. Found the perfect route for the moniker a few years later.
A Halloween costume I came up with in 1986 in Tucson got recycled into several route names in two states: Karma Mechanic
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Highdesertman
Trad climber
jtree ca
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Jun 19, 2018 - 05:22pm PT
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After my partner ripped a cam and took a long and bloody fall Trauma Traverse was born.
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Tanya B
climber
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Feb 14, 2019 - 10:19am PT
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How about extensions to climbs?
Questions 1) If the original route is 11 bolts and then has a 7 bolt extension off the original anchor do the people who put up the extension get to rename the route, or just name the extension, or just have it listed as an extension to the original route but no change or additional name?
Question 2) If the original route is 8 bolts but a variation is put up which branches from the original route at bolt 4 and goes for another 14 bolts to its own anchor does that variation get its own name?
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Urmas
Social climber
Sierra Eastside
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Feb 14, 2019 - 10:41am PT
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Tanya, I would say it's up to the guidebook author. If it is called something else by others, it can be labeled a.k.a...
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Meech
Trad climber
PHX and SLC
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Feb 14, 2019 - 11:15am PT
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Yo Ron...just add letters for new climbs. The one to the right of 14 is now 14a. Now that could confuse a few folks.
Route goes up between 14a and 14b. 14aa? I can just imagine the conversations at the gym.
"Did you get out this weekend?"
"Yeah dood, I totally sent 11ca!"
"Is that the 12a slab or the 11c roof next to it? Or wait, am I thinking of 10bc and 10bd? Sh#t, Where's the guidebook?"
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Rolfr
Sport climber
Penticton BC
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Feb 14, 2019 - 11:29am PT
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Being a senior climber,I enjoy route names that poke fun at our old age and physical condition. My partner named my last new route "weakend warrior" and his previous short route " Short Circuit", double entendre referring to my medical condition.
Dam auto correct, that is supoosed to read Weakened Warrior
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Darryl Cramer
Social climber
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Feb 14, 2019 - 02:30pm PT
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Andy, Jon does have some great route names. Clay was inspired by the James Joyce story but has no meaning except sounding cool. Earwax was just something that appeared out of the blue. One of my favorite names at Index is Shirley which was named after Dick's mom.
Here's a pic of the FA
Spooner was named after Greg's mom if I remember correctly
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Zay
climber
Monterey, Ca
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Feb 14, 2019 - 03:48pm PT
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Elliot and I have decided that all routes in the Whites should have a "Western" theme... so our routes so far:
Buzzard Bait (on vulture rock)
Open Season
Wild, Wild West
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Feb 14, 2019 - 04:15pm PT
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What's up with numbering sport climbs. In the Owens Gorge alone there are stacks of routes with fun names that have become landmarks. If some says let's meet #436-c.2 (because other routes and variations have intervened,) how does that compare to meeting at Looney Binge, Pick Pocket, Sendero Luminoso, Flash Flood or, God forbid, The Jaws of Life?
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Feb 14, 2019 - 04:50pm PT
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The older I get the less I put effort into route names. I think all the routes I have done in the last few years could be named "It's An Ok Route, I Think It's Probably Easy 5.10". My favorite is a route I did last year I called Fingers On A Pancake.
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