Crags
Yosemite
United States guidebook sector.
Sector guide
Yosemite Valley / Valley North Side
Browse 405 climbs in this Yosemite sector, with practical notes for the approach, base, and suitability.
climbs
405
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
402 climbs · 1+ to 8c+ · most at 6a–6c+
- 1 1
- 2a–2c 1
- 4a–4c 17
- 5a–5c 141
- 6a–6c+ 214
- 7a–7c+ 23
- 8a–8c+ 5
Full breakdown (23 grades)
1+
1
2
1
4a
2
4b
5
4c
10
5a
29
5b
51
5c
61
6a
50
6a+
27
6b
40
6b+
35
6c
48
6c+
14
7a
11
7a+
3
7b
3
7b+
3
7c
2
7c+
1
8a
3
8b+
1
8c+
1
Route list
Every climb in Yosemite Valley / Valley North Side
Sorted from easiest to hardest.
| Route | Grade | Stars | Ascents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed 5.3 | 1+ | – | 0 |
| Bobcat Crack | 2 | – | 0 |
| Aunt Fanny's Pantry | 4a | – | 0 |
| The Footstool, Right | 4a | – | 0 |
| Delectable Pinnacle, Left | 4b | – | 0 |
| Oak Tree Flake | 4b | – | 0 |
| Sunnyside Bench Regular Route | 4b | – | 0 |
| Swan Slab Chimney | 4b | – | 0 |
| Unnamed Chimney | 4b | – | 0 |
| Arrowhead Spire | 4c | – | 0 |
| Bay Tree Crack | 4c | – | 0 |
| Granny Crack | 4c | – | 0 |
| Hanging Flake | 4c | – | 0 |
| Munginella | 4c | – | 0 |
| Oak Tree Crack | 4c | – | 0 |
| Spaghetti Western | 4c | – | 0 |
| Swan Slab Gully | 4c | – | 0 |
| Unknown | 4c | – | 0 |
| West Slabs | 4c | – | 0 |
| After Six | 5a | – | 0 |
| Alcove Slabs | 5a | – | 0 |
| Andy Devine | 5a | – | 0 |
| Antique | 5a | – | 0 |
| Captain Hook, Left | 5a | – | 0 |
| Church Bowl Chimney | 5a | – | 0 |
| Claude's Delight | 5a | – | 0 |
| Delectable Pinnacle, Right | 5a | – | 0 |
| Direct Action | 5a | – | 0 |
| El Cap Tree | 5a | – | 0 |
| He Can't Shout, Don't Hear You | 5a | – | 0 |
| La Cosita, Left | 5a | – | 0 |
| Loggerhead Ledge Route | 5a | – | 0 |
| Lost Arrow Tip | 5a | – | 0 |
| Lunar Eclipse | 5a | – | 0 |
| Lurking Fear | 5a | – | 0 |
| Patio Cracks - Center | 5a | – | 0 |
| Penelope's Problem | 5a | – | 0 |
| Pine Line | 5a | – | 0 |
| Pygmy Pillar | 5a | – | 0 |
| Resist! | 5a | – | 0 |
| Royal Arches Alt. Start - Crack | 5a | – | 0 |
| Scuz Ball | 5a | – | 0 |
| Shomer Shabbat | 5a | – | 0 |
| Swan Slab Squeeze | 5a | – | 0 |
| Tiny Tim | 5a | – | 0 |
| Uncle Fanny | 5a | – | 0 |
| Unnamed Face | 5a | – | 0 |
| V-Crack | 5a | – | 0 |
| After Seven | 5b | – | 0 |
| Agricultural Manuvers in the Dark | 5b | – | 0 |
| Arches Terrace | 5b | – | 0 |
| Arrowhead Arête | 5b | – | 0 |
| Bishops Terrace | 5b | – | 0 |
| C.S. Concerto | 5b | – | 0 |
| Church Bowl Lieback | 5b | – | 0 |
| Church Bowl Terrace | 5b | – | 0 |
| Cid's Embrace | 5b | – | 0 |
| Dihedral Wall | 5b | – | 0 |
| Eagle's Way | 5b | – | 0 |
| Electric Ladyland | 5b | – | 0 |
| Fire Fly | 5b | – | 0 |
| Gollum | 5b | – | 0 |
| Hanging Teeth | 5b | – | 0 |
| Hershey Highway | 5b | – | 0 |
| Jughead | 5b | – | 0 |
| L.D. Getaway | 5b | – | 0 |
| Lieback Route | 5b | – | 0 |
| Little John, Left | 5b | – | 0 |
| Little John, Right | 5b | – | 0 |
| Lost Arrow Spire Direct | 5b | – | 0 |
| Mideast Crisis | 5b | – | 0 |
| New Dawn | 5b | – | 0 |
| North America Wall | 5b | – | 0 |
| Nutty Buddy | 5b | – | 0 |
| Patio Cracks - Left | 5b | – | 0 |
| Peruvian flake right | 5b | – | 0 |
| Pin Scar Seams | 5b | – | 0 |
| Scorched Earth | 5b | – | 0 |
| Selaginella | 5b | – | 0 |
| Skull Queen | 5b | – | 0 |
| Sorry Poopsie | 5b | – | 0 |
| South Face | 5b | – | 0 |
| South Face Route | 5b | – | 0 |
| Squeeze-n-Tease | 5b | – | 0 |
| Sunkist | 5b | – | 0 |
| Super Hands (aka Ranger Crack) | 5b | – | 0 |
| Ten Days After | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Caverns | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Nutcracker Suite (aka Nutcracker) | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Prow | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Re-Animator | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Shield | 5b | – | 0 |
| Trial By Fire | 5b | – | 0 |
| Tribal Rite | 5b | – | 0 |
| Try Again Ledge | 5b | – | 0 |
| Tweedle Dee | 5b | – | 0 |
| Via Aqua | 5b | – | 0 |
| Virginia | 5b | – | 0 |
| Werner's Crack | 5b | – | 0 |
| 5.6 Chimney Above Grant's | 5c | – | 0 |
| Absolutely Free Left Side | 5c | – | 0 |
| Absolutely Free, Center | 5c | – | 0 |
| Apathy Buttress | 5c | – | 0 |
| Bikini Beach Party | 5c | – | 0 |
| Black is Brown | 5c | – | 0 |
| Bulging Puke | 5c | – | 0 |
| Captain Hook, Right | 5c | – | 0 |
| Commissioner Buttress | 5c | – | 0 |
| Commitment | 5c | – | 0 |
| Direct Route | 5c | – | 0 |
| Doggie Deviations | 5c | – | 0 |
| Doggie Diversions | 5c | – | 0 |
| Dust in the Wind | 5c | – | 0 |
| Dynamic Doubles | 5c | – | 0 |
| Fecophilia | 5c | – | 0 |
| Gidget Goes to Yosemite | 5c | – | 0 |
| Gold Rush | 5c | – | 0 |
| Good Ol' Boy | 5c | – | 0 |
| Grant's Crack | 5c | – | 0 |
| Grape Race | 5c | – | 0 |
| Hawkman's Escape | 5c | – | 0 |
| Jamcrack | 5c | – | 0 |
| Jump for Joy | 5c | – | 0 |
| La Cosita, Right | 5c | – | 0 |
| Lancelot | 5c | – | 0 |
| Laughing at the Void | 5c | – | 0 |
| Left Side of the Folly | 5c | – | 0 |
| Lemon | 5c | – | 0 |
| Lena's Lieback | 5c | – | 0 |
| Mescalito | 5c | – | 0 |
| Mirage | 5c | – | 0 |
| Moby Dick, Left | 5c | – | 0 |
| Mouse King | 5c | – | 0 |
| Native Son | 5c | – | 0 |
| Never Never Land | 5c | – | 0 |
| Nutcracker 5.9 Start Variation | 5c | – | 0 |
| Observation Point | 5c | – | 0 |
| Patio Cracks - Right | 5c | – | 0 |
| Peter Pan | 5c | – | 0 |
| Pine stein | 5c | – | 0 |
| Positively 4th Street | 5c | – | 0 |
| Quo Vadis | 5c | – | 0 |
| Raisin | 5c | – | 0 |
| Ribald | 5c | – | 0 |
| Royal Prerogative | 5c | – | 0 |
| Salathe Wall | 5c | – | 0 |
| Simulkrime | 5c | – | 0 |
| South Face | 5c | – | 0 |
| South Seas | 5c | – | 0 |
| Squeeze Play | 5c | – | 0 |
| Super Slide | 5c | – | 0 |
| Tangerine Trip | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Buttocks | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Nose | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Prude | 5c | – | 0 |
| Triple Direct | 5c | – | 0 |
| Unknown Arete | 5c | – | 0 |
| Wall of Early Morning Light | 5c | – | 0 |
| West Buttress | 5c | – | 0 |
| Yosemite Point Buttress | 5c | – | 0 |
| [Redacted] | 6a | – | 0 |
| Absolutely Free, Right Side | 6a | – | 0 |
| Annie's Arete | 6a | – | 0 |
| Arete Butler | 6a | – | 0 |
| Beer Pressure | 6a | – | 0 |
| Center Route, Geek Towers | 6a | – | 0 |
| Church Bowl Tree | 6a | – | 0 |
| Conquest of the Stud Monkey | 6a | – | 0 |
| Deja Thorus | 6a | – | 0 |
| Doggie Do | 6a | – | 0 |
| East Chimney | 6a | – | 0 |
| Fine Line | 6a | – | 0 |
| Franken pine | 6a | – | 0 |
| Goat for it | 6a | – | 0 |
| Gold Wall | 6a | – | 0 |
| Haley's Comet | 6a | – | 0 |
| Just Do-do It | 6a | – | 0 |
| Le Nocturne | 6a | – | 0 |
| Lost Arrow Chimney | 6a | – | 0 |
| Lost in America | 6a | – | 0 |
| Maple Jam | 6a | – | 0 |
| Moby Dick Center | 6a | – | 0 |
| More Balls Than Bacon | 6a | – | 0 |
| Orange Juice Avenue | 6a | – | 0 |
| Peeping Tom | 6a | – | 0 |
| Peruvian Flake | 6a | – | 0 |
| Pole Position | 6a | – | 0 |
| Police State | 6a | – | 0 |
| Prune | 6a | – | 0 |
| Pterodactyl Terrace, Left | 6a | – | 0 |
| Renus Wrinkle | 6a | – | 0 |
| Revival | 6a | – | 0 |
| Sacherer Cracker | 6a | – | 0 |
| Second Thoughts | 6a | – | 0 |
| Secret Storm | 6a | – | 0 |
| Sober Up | 6a | – | 0 |
| Sons of Yesterday | 6a | – | 0 |
| Southern Man | 6a | – | 0 |
| Sow Sow Sow | 6a | – | 0 |
| Stay Lady Stay Back | 6a | – | 0 |
| Sunnyside Pinnacle | 6a | – | 0 |
| Super Visor | 6a | – | 0 |
| Swillar Pillar | 6a | – | 0 |
| The Hourglass, Right | 6a | – | 0 |
| The Riddler | 6a | – | 0 |
| The Surprise | 6a | – | 0 |
| Unnamed Thin Crack | 6a | – | 0 |
| Warm Up Crack | 6a | – | 0 |
| West Buttress (pitch 1&2) | 6a | – | 0 |
| Y Crack | 6a | – | 0 |
| Ahab | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Back To The Slammer | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Blackballed | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Blueballed | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Crystalline Passage | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Dark Star | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Double Trouble | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| East Buttress | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Guiding Light | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Happy's Favorite | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Krovy Rookers | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Lacerated Sky | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Leisure Time | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Lemon (Direct Start) | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Lightweight Guides | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Mid-Life Crisis | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Nanbeeb | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Party Mix | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Permanent Waves | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Peter Left | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Poker Face | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Proud Snapper | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Reeds Leads | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Royal Arches (5.10- or 5.7 A0) | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Slab Happy Pinnacle, Center | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Surplus Cheaper Hands | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Slack, Left | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| [Redacted] | 6b | – | 0 |
| Benzoin and Edges AKA The Testes Squeeze | 6b | – | 0 |
| Born Under A Bad Sign | 6b | – | 0 |
| Bummer | 6b | – | 0 |
| Chopper | 6b | – | 0 |
| Chow Chow Chow | 6b | – | 0 |
| Crest Jewel (and Crest Jewel Direct) | 6b | – | 0 |
| Edge of Night | 6b | – | 0 |
| Ephemeron | 6b | – | 0 |
| Face Card | 6b | – | 0 |
| Flight of the Albatross | 6b | – | 0 |
| Golden Bough | 6b | – | 0 |
| Henley Quits | 6b | – | 0 |
| Honor thy Father | 6b | – | 0 |
| I Smell Bacon! | 6b | – | 0 |
| Jacob's Ladder | 6b | – | 0 |
| Jo Jo | 6b | – | 0 |
| Knuckle Buster | 6b | – | 0 |
| La Arista | 6b | – | 0 |
| Maxine's Wall | 6b | – | 0 |
| Muir Wall | 6b | – | 0 |
| Neptune | 6b | – | 0 |
| New Suede Shoes | 6b | – | 0 |
| Nowhere Man | 6b | – | 0 |
| Penthouse Cracks | 6b | – | 0 |
| Royal Flush | 6b | – | 0 |
| Salathe (pitch 1) | 6b | – | 0 |
| Split Pinnacle, East Arete | 6b | – | 0 |
| Sultans of Sling | 6b | – | 0 |
| Tammy Fae | 6b | – | 0 |
| Tenaya's Tears | 6b | – | 0 |
| The Dihardral | 6b | – | 0 |
| The Silent Line | 6b | – | 0 |
| The Violent Bear It Away | 6b | – | 0 |
| Ugly Duckling | 6b | – | 0 |
| Way Homo Spurm Burpers from Fresno | 6b | – | 0 |
| Werner's Ant Trees | 6b | – | 0 |
| West Face | 6b | – | 0 |
| Work Around the Skirt | 6b | – | 0 |
| Young and the Restless | 6b | – | 0 |
| 1096 | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Are You Hard Enough? | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Barney's Rubble | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Blackout | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Bobby's Lobby | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Book of Revelation | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Butthole Climbers | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Cheek | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Distant Driver | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Dong Wall | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Drunk Tank | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Greasy but Groovy | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Haley's Little Warm-up | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Hardly Pinnacle | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Jolly Rodger | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Just Do Me | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Lazy Bum | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Lingering Lie | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Little Wing | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Misty Wall (with free variation finishing on Escape from Tora Bora) | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Move Like a Stud | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Random Blessings | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Rum Sodomy in the Lash | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Seamilicious | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Serenity Crack | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Simian Sex | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Ten Years After | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Good Book | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Podium | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Rambler | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Silent Freeway | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Slack Center | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| W'allnuts | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Wild Turkey | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Wings of Steel | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| [Redacted] | 6c | – | 0 |
| Adrenaline | 6c | – | 0 |
| Aid Route | 6c | – | 0 |
| Anaphylactic Shock | 6c | – | 0 |
| Anxiety with a view | 6c | – | 0 |
| Arches Terrace Direct | 6c | – | 0 |
| Astro Spam | 6c | – | 0 |
| Basket Case | 6c | – | 0 |
| Bitches' Terror | 6c | – | 0 |
| Caught at the Lip | 6c | – | 0 |
| Childhood's End | 6c | – | 0 |
| Dagger | 6c | – | 0 |
| Demon's Delight | 6c | – | 0 |
| Devil Waves | 6c | – | 0 |
| Deviltry | 6c | – | 0 |
| Energizer | 6c | – | 0 |
| Essence | 6c | – | 0 |
| Flamin' Fingers | 6c | – | 0 |
| Funge on Munge | 6c | – | 0 |
| Hammerhead | 6c | – | 0 |
| Here on the Inside | 6c | – | 0 |
| Indubious Battle | 6c | – | 0 |
| La Escuela | 6c | – | 0 |
| Lagerhead | 6c | – | 0 |
| Log Jam | 6c | – | 0 |
| Mark of Art | 6c | – | 0 |
| Mindahoonee Wall | 6c | – | 0 |
| Never Say Dog | 6c | – | 0 |
| No Rest For The Wicked | 6c | – | 0 |
| Power Failure | 6c | – | 0 |
| Powerslave | 6c | – | 0 |
| Pterodactyl Terrace, Right | 6c | – | 0 |
| Rock Neurotic | 6c | – | 0 |
| Seedy Leads | 6c | – | 0 |
| Shaky Flakes | 6c | – | 0 |
| Short But Thin | 6c | – | 0 |
| Slab Happy Pinnacle Left | 6c | – | 0 |
| Sparkling Give-away | 6c | – | 0 |
| Superstem | 6c | – | 0 |
| Teabag Wisdom | 6c | – | 0 |
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Bluffer | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Cobra | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Moratorium | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Mountains are Calling | 6c | – | 0 |
| Thread of Life | 6c | – | 0 |
| Unknown | 6c | – | 0 |
| Walk On the Water | 6c | – | 0 |
| 700 Club | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Age of Industry | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Astroman | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Demimonde | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Drain Bamage | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Edge-u-cator | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Firefingers | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Freeblast | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Freestone (Geek Towers, Left) | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Goodhead | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Mothballed | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Off Route Direct | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Rupto Pac | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| West Face | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Bad Ass Momma | 7a | – | 0 |
| Dreams of Thailand | 7a | – | 0 |
| Endorphin | 7a | – | 0 |
| King Snake | 7a | – | 0 |
| Maps and Legends | 7a | – | 0 |
| Masquerade/Call Me Ishmael | 7a | – | 0 |
| Montgomery Cliff | 7a | – | 0 |
| Rock Bottom | 7a | – | 0 |
| Sink Like A Stone | 7a | – | 0 |
| The Wand | 7a | – | 0 |
| Unknown (Too Lame To Name) | 7a | – | 0 |
| Gates of Delirium | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Oral Roberts | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Space Invaders | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Burden of Dreams | 7b | – | 0 |
| Material Girl | 7b | – | 0 |
| The Chief | 7b | – | 0 |
| Golden Years | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Hang Dog Flyer | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| The Twisted Road | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| People (bear huggy arete) | 7c | – | 0 |
| The Shining | 7c | – | 0 |
| Golden Gate | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| Mr. Midwest | 8a | – | 0 |
| Psycho Bitch | 8a | – | 0 |
| TRON | 8a | – | 0 |
| Magic Mushroom | 8b+ | – | 0 |
| The Dawn Wall | 8c+ | – | 0 |
| Freerider | – | – | 0 |
| Heart Route (Free) | – | – | 0 |
| Parkay Squeeze | – | – | 0 |
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