Crags
Yosemite
United States guidebook sector.
Sector guide
Yosemite Valley / Valley South Side
Browse 350 climbs in this Yosemite sector, with practical notes for the approach, base, and suitability.
climbs
350
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
350 climbs · 1 to 8a+ · most at 6a–6c+
- 1 3
- 3a–3c 1
- 4a–4c 9
- 5a–5c 89
- 6a–6c+ 168
- 7a–7c+ 74
- 8a–8c+ 6
Full breakdown (22 grades)
1
3
3
1
4a
1
4b
2
4c
6
5a
15
5b
26
5c
48
6a
21
6a+
28
6b
34
6b+
18
6c
48
6c+
19
7a
23
7a+
19
7b
12
7b+
9
7c
5
7c+
6
8a
5
8a+
1
Route list
Every climb in Yosemite Valley / Valley South Side
Sorted from easiest to hardest.
| Route | Grade | Stars | Ascents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gunsight | 1 | – | 0 |
| LeConte Gully | 1 | – | 0 |
| Southwest Arete | 1 | – | 0 |
| Monday Morning Slab, Left Side | 3 | – | 0 |
| Monday Morning Slab, Right Side | 4a | – | 0 |
| Horns of Jericho (Direct Start) | 4b | – | 0 |
| Prowd | 4b | – | 0 |
| East Arete | 4c | – | 0 |
| North Face Pohono Pinnacle | 4c | – | 0 |
| Roulette | 4c | – | 0 |
| The Cow-Center Route | 4c | – | 0 |
| The Goblet | 4c | – | 0 |
| The Grack - Center | 4c | – | 0 |
| Blood & Coin | 5a | – | 0 |
| Direct Northwest Face | 5a | – | 0 |
| Epidemia de Opiáceos | 5a | – | 0 |
| Jesus Built My Hotrod | 5a | – | 0 |
| Monday Morning Slab, Chouinard Crack | 5a | – | 0 |
| North Face (Pegasus 5.12) | 5a | – | 0 |
| Overhang Bypass | 5a | – | 0 |
| Pee Pee Pillar Left | 5a | – | 0 |
| Pohono Pinnacle- Northwest Corner | 5a | – | 0 |
| Snake Dike | 5a | – | 0 |
| The Cow-Right Side | 5a | – | 0 |
| The Grack - Left Side | 5a | – | 0 |
| West Face | 5a | – | 0 |
| Wet Denim Daydream | 5a | – | 0 |
| Wrong Arete | 5a | – | 0 |
| Bad Moon Rising | 5b | – | 0 |
| Braille Book | 5b | – | 0 |
| Brownoser | 5b | – | 0 |
| Call of the Yeti | 5b | – | 0 |
| Chockblock Chimney | 5b | – | 0 |
| Desperate for Doughnuts | 5b | – | 0 |
| Flying High | 5b | – | 0 |
| Jericho Wall | 5b | – | 0 |
| Land of Munge and Honey | 5b | – | 0 |
| Make It So | 5b | – | 0 |
| Monday Morning Slab, Harry Daley Route | 5b | – | 0 |
| Northwest Face | 5b | – | 0 |
| Pharaoh's Beard, Regular Route | 5b | – | 0 |
| Point Beyond | 5b | – | 0 |
| Point Beyond Direct | 5b | – | 0 |
| Renaissance Wall | 5b | – | 0 |
| Scarface | 5b | – | 0 |
| Stand And Deliver | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Book of Ruth | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Cow-Left Side | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Flakes | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Pedestal | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Sequel | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Syllable | 5b | – | 0 |
| Tilted Mitten, Right Side | 5b | – | 0 |
| Voodoo Child | 5b | – | 0 |
| Angel's Approach | 5c | – | 0 |
| Apron Jam | 5c | – | 0 |
| Blind Man's Bluff | 5c | – | 0 |
| Blinky Blunt | 5c | – | 0 |
| Boulderfield Gorge | 5c | – | 0 |
| Bunnell Point - Northwest Face | 5c | – | 0 |
| Central Pillar of Frenzy | 5c | – | 0 |
| Coonyard Pinnacle | 5c | – | 0 |
| Corner Pocket | 5c | – | 0 |
| Deuceldike | 5c | – | 0 |
| Generation Gap | 5c | – | 0 |
| Goodrich Pinnacle-Left Side | 5c | – | 0 |
| Goodrich Pinnacle-Right Side | 5c | – | 0 |
| Hail To The Chief | 5c | – | 0 |
| Juan-Tawn | 5c | – | 0 |
| Kor-Beck | 5c | – | 0 |
| McPherson Struts | 5c | – | 0 |
| Northeast Buttress | 5c | – | 0 |
| Northeast Face | 5c | – | 0 |
| Patio Pinnacle, Regular Route | 5c | – | 0 |
| Phantom Pinnacle, Left | 5c | – | 0 |
| Quicksilver | 5c | – | 0 |
| Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome | 5c | – | 0 |
| Regular Route | 5c | – | 0 |
| Regular Route - Direct Start | 5c | – | 0 |
| Regular Route (Higher Cathedral Spire) | 5c | – | 0 |
| Resisting Arrest | 5c | – | 0 |
| Retro Fit | 5c | – | 0 |
| Runaway Train | 5c | – | 0 |
| Scorpion Tale | 5c | – | 0 |
| Shuttle Madness | 5c | – | 0 |
| Slip on Slime | 5c | – | 0 |
| Something Good [Kung Fu Panda in Sloan Guide] | 5c | – | 0 |
| Son of Sam | 5c | – | 0 |
| Sound and Vision | 5c | – | 0 |
| Southwest Face | 5c | – | 0 |
| Stiff Upper Lip | 5c | – | 0 |
| Sugarloaf Dome - South Face | 5c | – | 0 |
| Tapestry | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Grack, Marginal | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Grack, Right Side | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Patriot Act | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Princess | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Sphinxter | 5c | – | 0 |
| Tilted Mitten, Left Side | 5c | – | 0 |
| Together Forever | 5c | – | 0 |
| Turkey Shoot | 5c | – | 0 |
| Unknown 5.9 | 5c | – | 0 |
| Above Tree Line | 6a | – | 0 |
| An Udder Way | 6a | – | 0 |
| Bottom Feeder | 6a | – | 0 |
| Brother in Arms | 6a | – | 0 |
| BT Connecion | 6a | – | 0 |
| Cat Dancing | 6a | – | 0 |
| East Corner | 6a | – | 0 |
| Goodrich to the Oasis | 6a | – | 0 |
| Hari-Kiri | 6a | – | 0 |
| Milk Dud | 6a | – | 0 |
| My Favorite Things | 6a | – | 0 |
| North Buttress | 6a | – | 0 |
| Paradise Lost | 6a | – | 0 |
| Pee Pee Pillar | 6a | – | 0 |
| Sight Reader | 6a | – | 0 |
| Steck-Salathe | 6a | – | 0 |
| Strange Energy | 6a | – | 0 |
| Tears of Joy | 6a | – | 0 |
| The Hand Me Down | 6a | – | 0 |
| Unknown 5.10 | 6a | – | 0 |
| Valley Hizeman | 6a | – | 0 |
| Bunnell Point - The Golden Bear | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Compass Rose | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Day light to Midnight | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Direct North Buttress (DNB) | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Edge of Token | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Exodus | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Eye in the Sky | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Fall Guy | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Freewheelin' | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Gash | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Grack Wrong | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Hanging Pillar | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Higher than you | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Hoppy's Favorite | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Kung Pao Chicken | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Lap Lobster | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Modern Alchemy | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| No Butts About It | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Oh No | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Plane Fare | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Punny People | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Spank Your Monkey | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Stupid Pet Tricks | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Synapse Collapse | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Bear | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Volkswagen Mechanic | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Thugz Mansion | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Variation on a Theme | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| 76 Degrees in the Shade | 6b | – | 0 |
| A Joint Adventure | 6b | – | 0 |
| A Mother's Lament | 6b | – | 0 |
| Air Bare | 6b | – | 0 |
| Blinded by the Light | 6b | – | 0 |
| Book of Job | 6b | – | 0 |
| Bridalveil Falls East | 6b | – | 0 |
| Cold Fusion | 6b | – | 0 |
| Direct Southwest Face route | 6b | – | 0 |
| East Buttress | 6b | – | 0 |
| East Buttress | 6b | – | 0 |
| End of The Line | 6b | – | 0 |
| Garden's Edge | 6b | – | 0 |
| Giblit | 6b | – | 0 |
| Green Dream | 6b | – | 0 |
| Heathenistic Pursuit | 6b | – | 0 |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | 6b | – | 0 |
| Hole in One | 6b | – | 0 |
| Hoosier’s Highway | 6b | – | 0 |
| Lonely Dancer | 6b | – | 0 |
| Mecca Lite | 6b | – | 0 |
| Mental Block | 6b | – | 0 |
| Ramer | 6b | – | 0 |
| Sanitary Engineer | 6b | – | 0 |
| Shock the Monkey | 6b | – | 0 |
| Southeast Face | 6b | – | 0 |
| Stoner's Highway | 6b | – | 0 |
| The Southwest Face | 6b | – | 0 |
| Transistor Sister | 6b | – | 0 |
| Unagi | 6b | – | 0 |
| Unnamed but Beautiful | 6b | – | 0 |
| Up the Down Staircase | 6b | – | 0 |
| West Buttress route | 6b | – | 0 |
| Windjammer | 6b | – | 0 |
| Fly-Girls | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Gold Dust | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Home Run | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| King Tut's Tomb | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Manana | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Mantra | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Mr. Natural | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Post Tramatic Climbing Disorder | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Solid Waste | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| South by Southwest | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Steck Route | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Sub-Mission | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Groom's Variation | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Thief | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Vanishing Point | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Walk of Life | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Wide Thing | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Yin-Yang | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Anchors Away | 6c | – | 0 |
| Balance Boy | 6c | – | 0 |
| Bird of Prey | 6c | – | 0 |
| Blond Ike | 6c | – | 0 |
| Bunnell Boa | 6c | – | 0 |
| Carpet Bagger | 6c | – | 0 |
| Center of the Universe | 6c | – | 0 |
| Coffee Snob | 6c | – | 0 |
| Controlled Burn | 6c | – | 0 |
| Dan the Maestro | 6c | – | 0 |
| Dead Baby | 6c | – | 0 |
| Dr. Feel Good | 6c | – | 0 |
| Ennui | 6c | – | 0 |
| Exploited | 6c | – | 0 |
| Eye of the Hurricane | 6c | – | 0 |
| Galactic Hitchhiker | 6c | – | 0 |
| Geek For A Week | 6c | – | 0 |
| Green Dragon | 6c | – | 0 |
| Home-Boys | 6c | – | 0 |
| Into the Fire | 6c | – | 0 |
| Lean Years | 6c | – | 0 |
| Mac Daddy | 6c | – | 0 |
| Mary's Tears | 6c | – | 0 |
| Meccaphobia | 6c | – | 0 |
| Megaforce (aka Magnum Force) | 6c | – | 0 |
| Mojo Rising | 6c | – | 0 |
| Mr. Pinkeyes | 6c | – | 0 |
| Ochre Fields | 6c | – | 0 |
| Peasant | 6c | – | 0 |
| Pilgrimage (New North Face) | 6c | – | 0 |
| Psychic Energy | 6c | – | 0 |
| Remain in Light | 6c | – | 0 |
| Rock Monkey Rebellion | 6c | – | 0 |
| Scrubby Corner | 6c | – | 0 |
| Seal the Deal | 6c | – | 0 |
| Space Babble | 6c | – | 0 |
| Spike | 6c | – | 0 |
| Survivor | 6c | – | 0 |
| Sweet Thang | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Sceptor | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Warbler | 6c | – | 0 |
| Total Way-ist | 6c | – | 0 |
| Waste Not, Whip Not | 6c | – | 0 |
| West Face | 6c | – | 0 |
| Windchill | 6c | – | 0 |
| Windfall | 6c | – | 0 |
| Wishing Well | 6c | – | 0 |
| Yama Shama | 6c | – | 0 |
| Afterburner | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Beggar's Buttress | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Chouinard-Herbert | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Going Under | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Jungle Boogie | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Long Live The Chief (free var. Hail To The Chief headwall) | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Mongoloid | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Mother Earth | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Overhang Overpass | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Passport to the Sky | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Reefer Cruise | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Retrobolted and Super Fun! | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Soul Sacrifice | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Spiderman | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Tightrope | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Too Many Darts (Free Ascent) | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Unknown and Super Fun! | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Unknown but Splitter | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Voyager | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Afterburner Variation | 7a | – | 0 |
| Apron Jacked | 7a | – | 0 |
| Autobahn | 7a | – | 0 |
| Big Easy | 7a | – | 0 |
| Bircheff-Williams | 7a | – | 0 |
| Freezer Burn | 7a | – | 0 |
| Killa Beez | 7a | – | 0 |
| King and I | 7a | – | 0 |
| Last of the Mohicans | 7a | – | 0 |
| Max Deviator | 7a | – | 0 |
| Micro Maze | 7a | – | 0 |
| Monogamish | 7a | – | 0 |
| New Wave | 7a | – | 0 |
| Perfect Vision | 7a | – | 0 |
| Pink Panther | 7a | – | 0 |
| Power Point | 7a | – | 0 |
| Rainbow bridge | 7a | – | 0 |
| Riding on the Wind | 7a | – | 0 |
| Scattered Youth | 7a | – | 0 |
| Spectacle | 7a | – | 0 |
| The Great Escape | 7a | – | 0 |
| Top Dog | 7a | – | 0 |
| Whiskers | 7a | – | 0 |
| Balance Bitch | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Direct North Face | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Drive By Shooting | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Jack the Zipper | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Jericho Wall Free | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| King for a Day | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Mama (Free Voices of the Drown) | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Mechanical Advantage | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| More Burly than Girly | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Slamdance | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Substance Abuse | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| The Grand Wazoo | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| The Last Crusade | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| The Xue Way | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Two Hoofers | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Unemployment Line | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Velvet Elvis | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Vulture Culture | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Wish You Were Here | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Berlin Wall | 7b | – | 0 |
| Best Bet Arete | 7b | – | 0 |
| Collision Course | 7b | – | 0 |
| Controlled Substance | 7b | – | 0 |
| Final Cut | 7b | – | 0 |
| Lighten Up | 7b | – | 0 |
| Rock-Shock | 7b | – | 0 |
| Temple of Doom | 7b | – | 0 |
| The Crucifix | 7b | – | 0 |
| The Myth of Sessyphus | 7b | – | 0 |
| Time Bandits | 7b | – | 0 |
| Tucker's Proud Rock Climb | 7b | – | 0 |
| Border Country | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Feel so Numb | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Hall of Mirrors | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Ninety-six Degrees in the Shade | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Prime Directive | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Romulan Warbird | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Scarface (Free) | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Trick of the Tail | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Wayward Son | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Double Dragon | 7c | – | 0 |
| Dream Team | 7c | – | 0 |
| Mahtah | 7c | – | 0 |
| Superstition | 7c | – | 0 |
| The Lurch | 7c | – | 0 |
| Empire | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| Endless War | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| Growing Up | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| Spire it up (first 2 pitches) | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| The Nexus AKA The Niels Tietze Memorial Route | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| Westie Face | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| Black Fly | 8a | – | 0 |
| Cosmic Debris | 8a | – | 0 |
| Cripps | 8a | – | 0 |
| Father Time | 8a | – | 0 |
| The Final Frontier | 8a | – | 0 |
| Counterparts | 8a+ | – | 0 |
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