First Lead - Creature Feature (5.9+) Red River Gorge, KY. Such a freakin awesome climb that even pros hop on it!

First sport lead - Putt Putt, Toot Toot (5.7, 3 or 4 bolts) - South Seas Area of Rushmore, SD. It was a pretty straight forward lead, but it was nice to finally lead something outside of the gym.

First trad lead - Broken Crack (5.6)- Duncan's Ridge, N Colo. Toproped it first, placing some gear, then cleaned it and lead up. I should have put a longer runner on my first piece though - that sucker pulled up and out as soon as I weighted the rope to be lowered.

First decent trad. lead was Knife Crack 5.9+, Griffin Falls Ala.

first trad lead was cryogenics, a 10a crack on independence pass. this dude who used to frequent the bar i worked at always asked me if id climbed it, and i would say no, i dont have trad gear. one day he brought all of this old school gear in (old chouinad cams, like u stem camalots) and let me borrow it as long as i promised to lead cryogenics. it was an intersting intro into trad climbing, but it built up enough confidence for me to redpoint multiple 11+ trad routes less than a year later! new gear suddenly seemed bomber to me!

First lead was Three Pines (5.3) at the Gunks. 3-4 pitches (depending on how you do it), pretty steep, lots of rope drag for the uninitiated, and fortunately great gear. Very exciting third pitch!

First lead ever was trad, which is how you learn to climb in the great state of NC. Pitch 3 off of the big ledge midway up The Daddy on the NC Wall. Only 5.4 or 5.5 but what a classic route in the spectacular setting of the Linville Gorge. Have done this route multiple times since and will do it again many times in the future.
CLASSIC!!!

First sport lead: Glory Jean's (5.6), at Rumney. Pretty uneventful.

First trad lead (attempt): Limelight (5.7) at the Gunks...the route starts on top of a small 25ft ledge. I started up it...typical Gunks route, with PG protection. I placed a small nut (like...#4 BD) 15 ft off the ledge, climbed another 10ft, and suddenly I heard considerable commotion from below. My friends, who were watching, saw the nut pop out and slide down the belay...leaving me 50ft off the deck...so I downclimbed, and got on the first pitch of Arrow (5.7) instead.

The trough. Taquitz. 5.0

First sport lead..and first time outside the gym was Rolfed 5.9? at Foster Falls. I learned to clean on that route too and lead Bear Mountain Picnic 5.8+ the next day. My first good whipper though was on Misty 5.10 at Sandrock.

My first trad lead was just yesterday on West Dihedral and West Crack 5.2/4 and Boulder Direct 5.5 later that day.