Crags
Yosemite
United States guidebook sector.
Sector guide
Yosemite Valley / Lower Merced River Canyon
Browse 428 climbs in this Yosemite sector, with practical notes for the approach, base, and suitability.
climbs
428
Every climb in this sector is listed below.
Grade spread
A quick feel for the sector
Every climb is listed below, easiest first.
Grade system shown: French
426 climbs · 4a to 8c+ · most at 6a–6c+
- 4a–4c 5
- 5a–5c 113
- 6a–6c+ 216
- 7a–7c+ 86
- 8a–8c+ 6
Full breakdown (21 grades)
4a
1
4c
4
5a
15
5b
36
5c
62
6a
37
6a+
34
6b
29
6b+
33
6c
58
6c+
25
7a
20
7a+
29
7b
17
7b+
11
7c
3
7c+
6
8a
2
8a+
1
8b
2
8c+
1
Grade system shown: V-scale
V0
2
Route list
Every climb in Yosemite Valley / Lower Merced River Canyon
Sorted from easiest to hardest.
| Route | Grade | Stars | Ascents |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Iota | 4a | – | 0 |
| A Pizza View | 4c | – | 0 |
| Tail End | 4c | – | 0 |
| The Notch Route | 4c | – | 0 |
| Too High | 4c | – | 0 |
| Anti-Ego Crack | 5a | – | 0 |
| Caribbean Cruise | 5a | – | 0 |
| Chicken Pie | 5a | – | 0 |
| Darkside | 5a | – | 0 |
| Emm Too | 5a | – | 0 |
| Gilligan's Chicken | 5a | – | 0 |
| Hummock World | 5a | – | 0 |
| Inner Reaches | 5a | – | 0 |
| Northwest Corner | 5a | – | 0 |
| Pat Pinnacle | 5a | – | 0 |
| Secret Agent Dward | 5a | – | 0 |
| Sloth Wall | 5a | – | 0 |
| The Deer Route | 5a | – | 0 |
| The Remnant-Right Side | 5a | – | 0 |
| Wump World | 5a | – | 0 |
| Bongs Away, Left | 5b | – | 0 |
| Bring in the Fembots | 5b | – | 0 |
| Color Me Gone (P1) | 5b | – | 0 |
| Costa Rica (p1) | 5b | – | 0 |
| Dromedary | 5b | – | 0 |
| Ejesta | 5b | – | 0 |
| Farm Alarm | 5b | – | 0 |
| Figment | 5b | – | 0 |
| Golden Needles | 5b | – | 0 |
| Hayley Anna | 5b | – | 0 |
| Hobknob | 5b | – | 0 |
| Holey Gully | 5b | – | 0 |
| Jugs | 5b | – | 0 |
| Just Scraping By | 5b | – | 0 |
| Keystone Corner | 5b | – | 0 |
| Knob Hill Ropest | 5b | – | 0 |
| Machine Gun Jubblies | 5b | – | 0 |
| Makayla's Climb | 5b | – | 0 |
| Mantel Illness | 5b | – | 0 |
| Minor Kinda Unit | 5b | – | 0 |
| Mockery | 5b | – | 0 |
| Mud Shark | 5b | – | 0 |
| Notable Knobular | 5b | – | 0 |
| Nurdle | 5b | – | 0 |
| Plastic Jesus | 5b | – | 0 |
| Pot Belly | 5b | – | 0 |
| Psychedelic Zygote | 5b | – | 0 |
| River Boulder North Side | 5b | – | 0 |
| Slipstream | 5b | – | 0 |
| Soft in the Middle | 5b | – | 0 |
| Stonequest | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Elevator Shaft | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Reception | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Walrus | 5b | – | 0 |
| Wart Hog | 5b | – | 0 |
| Watercooler cracks | 5b | – | 0 |
| 589 (Per Clint Cummins Guide Book) Unknown (Per Sloan Guide Book) | 5c | – | 0 |
| Application | 5c | – | 0 |
| Bong's Away Center | 5c | – | 0 |
| Center Route | 5c | – | 0 |
| Chicken Pie | 5c | – | 0 |
| Cool Cliff 170 | 5c | – | 0 |
| Corn Corner | 5c | – | 0 |
| Crack of Redemption | 5c | – | 0 |
| Crossover | 5c | – | 0 |
| Deception Gully | 5c | – | 0 |
| Dirty Little Secret | 5c | – | 0 |
| Dream Easy | 5c | – | 0 |
| Eat at Degnan's | 5c | – | 0 |
| Edge of Absurdity | 5c | – | 0 |
| Entrance Exam | 5c | – | 0 |
| Eye Noir | 5c | – | 0 |
| Eye of the Beholder | 5c | – | 0 |
| False Verde | 5c | – | 0 |
| Filthy Rich | 5c | – | 0 |
| Flatus | 5c | – | 0 |
| Free For All | 5c | – | 0 |
| Fun Flake | 5c | – | 0 |
| Grape Nuts | 5c | – | 0 |
| Hawleywood | 5c | – | 0 |
| Helling/Perrin Route | 5c | – | 0 |
| Hippy Child | 5c | – | 0 |
| Jack Pinnacle, Left | 5c | – | 0 |
| Jug Monkey | 5c | – | 0 |
| Klemens Escape | 5c | – | 0 |
| Loyd's Lolly Pop | 5c | – | 0 |
| New Deviations | 5c | – | 0 |
| Pink Elephant | 5c | – | 0 |
| Pot Belly (left variation) | 5c | – | 0 |
| Real Error | 5c | – | 0 |
| Reed's Pinnacle Regular Route | 5c | – | 0 |
| Rough Around the Edges | 5c | – | 0 |
| Saela Silky Drawers | 5c | – | 0 |
| Said and Done | 5c | – | 0 |
| Sawyer Crack | 5c | – | 0 |
| Smear Campaign | 5c | – | 0 |
| Solo Crack | 5c | – | 0 |
| Stone Fist | 5c | – | 0 |
| Suds | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Chase | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Cleft | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Cookie Sheet | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Cookie-Center | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Cookie-Right | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Enigma | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Hawaiian | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Owl Bypass | 5c | – | 0 |
| Tree Route | 5c | – | 0 |
| Twinkie | 5c | – | 0 |
| Unnamed | 5c | – | 0 |
| Unnamed 5.9 | 5c | – | 0 |
| Wasp | 5c | – | 0 |
| Whim | 5c | – | 0 |
| Whoreny Toad | 5c | – | 0 |
| Woody Woodpecker | 5c | – | 0 |
| Worst Error, Left | 5c | – | 0 |
| Worst Error, Right | 5c | – | 0 |
| Your Pizza is Ready | 5c | – | 0 |
| Babble On | 6a | – | 0 |
| Banana Dreams | 6a | – | 0 |
| Beverly's Tower | 6a | – | 0 |
| Bridgery | 6a | – | 0 |
| Cereal Killer | 6a | – | 0 |
| Chingando | 6a | – | 0 |
| Cookie Left Side | 6a | – | 0 |
| Copper Penny | 6a | – | 0 |
| Crack of Despair | 6a | – | 0 |
| Crack of Doom | 6a | – | 0 |
| Euellogy | 6a | – | 0 |
| Free Press | 6a | – | 0 |
| Gold Chains | 6a | – | 0 |
| Health Insurance | 6a | – | 0 |
| Highway Star | 6a | – | 0 |
| Jaw Bone | 6a | – | 0 |
| Jungle Book | 6a | – | 0 |
| Just for Starters | 6a | – | 0 |
| Kiddie Corner | 6a | – | 0 |
| Lost Error | 6a | – | 0 |
| Magical Mystery Tour | 6a | – | 0 |
| More Mental than Mantel | 6a | – | 0 |
| New Diversions | 6a | – | 0 |
| Pandora's Box | 6a | – | 0 |
| Pink Dream | 6a | – | 0 |
| Pohono The Barbarian | 6a | – | 0 |
| Porter's Pout | 6a | – | 0 |
| R and R | 6a | – | 0 |
| Reed's Pinnacle Left | 6a | – | 0 |
| Reed's Pinnacle-Direct Route | 6a | – | 0 |
| Right Guru Crack | 6a | – | 0 |
| Saved By Zero | 6a | – | 0 |
| Static Cling | 6a | – | 0 |
| This and That | 6a | – | 0 |
| Unknown | 6a | – | 0 |
| Walk On By | 6a | – | 0 |
| Wretched in Stone | 6a | – | 0 |
| Anathema | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Antifa Connection | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Bombay Bitch | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Boneheads | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Chicken Fever | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Crack n’ Face | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Desperate Straights | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Falcon | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Gripper | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Independent Route (Independence Pinnacle left) | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Jam Session | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Jungle Arms | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Knob Job | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Markery | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Midterm | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| New Traditionalists | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Pulpit Pooper | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Rough Arond the Edges Direct | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Shake, Rattle, and Drop | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Short Circuit Chimney | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Side Tracked | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Stone Groove | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Stone Groove (full) | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Strangers In the Night | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Donkey Way | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Flake | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Remnant-Left Side | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Sermon | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Super Slacker Highway | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Unchaste | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Trough of Justice | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Trundling Juan | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Vendetta | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Wicked Jones Crusher | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Beyond the Fringe | 6b | – | 0 |
| Bijou | 6b | – | 0 |
| Breast Fest | 6b | – | 0 |
| Cock Tart | 6b | – | 0 |
| Concrete Jungle (aka Poodle Bites) | 6b | – | 0 |
| English Breakfast Crack | 6b | – | 0 |
| Generator Crack | 6b | – | 0 |
| Greedy Fischerman | 6b | – | 0 |
| Knuckleheads | 6b | – | 0 |
| Left Guru Crack | 6b | – | 0 |
| Lithium Courage | 6b | – | 0 |
| Lunatic Fringe | 6b | – | 0 |
| Mark Of The Squirrel | 6b | – | 0 |
| Meat Grinder | 6b | – | 0 |
| Narrow Escape 10c | 6b | – | 0 |
| Outer Limits | 6b | – | 0 |
| Polymastia | 6b | – | 0 |
| Scrunchy-Mungy | 6b | – | 0 |
| Sherrie's Crack | 6b | – | 0 |
| Snatch Power | 6b | – | 0 |
| Straight Error | 6b | – | 0 |
| Striptease | 6b | – | 0 |
| Supplication | 6b | – | 0 |
| The Sniper's Post | 6b | – | 0 |
| Through Bein' Cool | 6b | – | 0 |
| Unnamed Skelton route | 6b | – | 0 |
| Waste Of Time | 6b | – | 0 |
| Wheat Thin | 6b | – | 0 |
| Wilde At Heart | 6b | – | 0 |
| Arch OW at Bongs Away Left | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Back for More | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Blotto AKA Axis | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Book 'em Dano | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Catchy | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Chicken Delight | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Conductor Crack | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Cramming | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Dr. Fun Time | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Elephantiasis | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Finger Lickin' | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Five and Dime | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Flight Attendant | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| G-Man Extension (not Book'em, Dano) | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Gerbil Launcher | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Gorilla Cookies | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Hand Out | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Independence Pinnacle, Center | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Infectious Groove | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Ol' 5.10 | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Olga's Trick | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| P-Line Express | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| People's Court | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Plumb Line | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Reality Check | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Reed's Erect | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Skinheads | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Steppin' Out | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Terminator, Right | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Bin | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Soloist | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Twilight Zone | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Void Continuation | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Aftershock | 6c | – | 0 |
| Alamo | 6c | – | 0 |
| Anticipation | 6c | – | 0 |
| Burst of Brilliance | 6c | – | 0 |
| Butterfingers | 6c | – | 0 |
| Buying New Soul | 6c | – | 0 |
| Catchy Corner | 6c | – | 0 |
| Children of Light | 6c | – | 0 |
| Clowns to the left | 6c | – | 0 |
| Cosmic Messenger | 6c | – | 0 |
| Crashline | 6c | – | 0 |
| Cream | 6c | – | 0 |
| Dangling Chads | 6c | – | 0 |
| Dark Slab top rope | 6c | – | 0 |
| Deodate | 6c | – | 0 |
| Elephant Talk | 6c | – | 0 |
| Flying In The Mountains | 6c | – | 0 |
| G-Man | 6c | – | 0 |
| Gay Bob's to extension | 6c | – | 0 |
| Goldrush | 6c | – | 0 |
| Hairline | 6c | – | 0 |
| Hardd | 6c | – | 0 |
| Headstrong | 6c | – | 0 |
| High Profile | 6c | – | 0 |
| Homeworld | 6c | – | 0 |
| Inner Sanctum | 6c | – | 0 |
| Jardine's Hand | 6c | – | 0 |
| Jokers to the Right | 6c | – | 0 |
| Leanie Meanie | 6c | – | 0 |
| Legends Light | 6c | – | 0 |
| Lily's Way 10d ++ | 6c | – | 0 |
| Low Profile | 6c | – | 0 |
| Magilla Gorilla | 6c | – | 0 |
| Mighty Crunchy | 6c | – | 0 |
| Moss Madness | 6c | – | 0 |
| Motor Drive | 6c | – | 0 |
| My-Toe-Sis | 6c | – | 0 |
| New Dimensions | 6c | – | 0 |
| Nine Lives | 6c | – | 0 |
| Orangutan Arch | 6c | – | 0 |
| Overdrive | 6c | – | 0 |
| Petty Larceny | 6c | – | 0 |
| Right Flake | 6c | – | 0 |
| RosaRosa | 6c | – | 0 |
| Sage | 6c | – | 0 |
| Sidetrack | 6c | – | 0 |
| Smart Like Tractor | 6c | – | 0 |
| Spring Fever | 6c | – | 0 |
| Stylite | 6c | – | 0 |
| Terminator, Left | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Enema | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Hundredth Monkey | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Lombard Classic | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Tube | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Wedge | 6c | – | 0 |
| Tweet This | 6c | – | 0 |
| Waverly Wafer | 6c | – | 0 |
| Whack and Dangle | 6c | – | 0 |
| 11c Toprope Arete | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Beyond Lunacy | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Black Heads | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Butterballs | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Cool Wheel (aka The Gauntlet) | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Crack-a-Go-Go | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Deosoul | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Fly By | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Girls Just Want To Have Fun | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Gunning for Buddha | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Kauk-kulator | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Le Bachar | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Open Your Eyes | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Outa Hands | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Pinky Paralysis | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Pringles | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Rocket In My Pocket | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Sky | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| The North Face | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| The Road to Madness | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| TKO | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Tones Of Home | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Tremendum | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Viper | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| We Love You Johnny | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Blind Faith | 7a | – | 0 |
| Bucket Brigade | 7a | – | 0 |
| Desperado | 7a | – | 0 |
| Energy Crisis | 7a | – | 0 |
| Grandpa Joe’s Direct | 7a | – | 0 |
| Hocus Pocus | 7a | – | 0 |
| Nickel Bag | 7a | – | 0 |
| OtherWorld | 7a | – | 0 |
| Red Zinger | 7a | – | 0 |
| River Boulder | 7a | – | 0 |
| Rocket Man | 7a | – | 0 |
| Sean's Arete | 7a | – | 0 |
| Short Circuit | 7a | – | 0 |
| Simon the Dog | 7a | – | 0 |
| Something for Nothing | 7a | – | 0 |
| The Anti-Christ | 7a | – | 0 |
| Tips | 7a | – | 0 |
| Torque Converter | 7a | – | 0 |
| Vibrator | 7a | – | 0 |
| Wilde | 7a | – | 0 |
| Cat's Squirrel | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Chump Change | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Cookie Monster | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Cooty Trois | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Coup d'Etat | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Fish Crack | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Fun Terminal | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Goldilocks | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Land Shark | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Lifeline | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Little Big Boy | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Mad Dogs Direct | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Mirage | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Moongerms | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Opiate | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Pulp What? | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Ride the Lightning | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Roadside Attraction | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Robin | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Rocky Horror Show | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Scram | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Separate Reality | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Shaft of the Penetrator | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Sixty Forty | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| The Blade | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| The Remnant, Center | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| The Truth | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Underclingon | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Unnamed Boulder Problem | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| A Dog's Roof | 7b | – | 0 |
| Alien Finish | 7b | – | 0 |
| America's Cup | 7b | – | 0 |
| Bud Pilot | 7b | – | 0 |
| Chips Ahoy | 7b | – | 0 |
| Crimson Cringe | 7b | – | 0 |
| Eschaton | 7b | – | 0 |
| Footprints | 7b | – | 0 |
| Hotline | 7b | – | 0 |
| Legends of the Low Sierra | 7b | – | 0 |
| Pocket Gorilla | 7b | – | 0 |
| Ray’s Pin Job | 7b | – | 0 |
| Tales of Power | 7b | – | 0 |
| Tennessee Strings (aka Tennessee Wall) | 7b | – | 0 |
| The Greenleaf p. 1 | 7b | – | 0 |
| Well Chuffed | 7b | – | 0 |
| Woods Taylor | 7b | – | 0 |
| 666 | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Desp-arete | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Fatal Mistake | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Highlander | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Meltdown | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Owl Roof | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Pussy Paws | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| The Greenleaf p. 2 | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| The Higher Truth | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| The Principle | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Wicked Gravity | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Evil Sede | 7c | – | 0 |
| Iced Earth | 7c | – | 0 |
| Silverback Arete | 7c | – | 0 |
| Chuffed As F*ck (extension to Well Chuffed) | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| Discipline | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| First Blood | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| Phantom | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| Stanley Face | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| The Phoenix | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| Iced Earth Extension | 8a | – | 0 |
| Keep the Muscle, Lose The Fat | 8a | – | 0 |
| The Renegade | 8a+ | – | 0 |
| Book of Hate | 8b | – | 0 |
| New Leaf (2nd pitch of GL) | 8b | – | 0 |
| Meltdown | 8c+ | – | 0 |
| Walk, Don't Run (aka The Bouldering Arch) | V0 | – | 0 |
| Dynamite Crack | V0+ | – | 0 |
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