Ticklist for the RRG?

I'm going to be in the red for a few days later this month with some friends. Anyone care to tell me their top 5 can't miss routes? Sport and/or trad from 5.10 to 5.13-?

if you like trad finger cracks don't even think about not doing rock wars (10a). one of the best routes i've ever done! and a great one often overlooked is roadside attraction (7). it's a splitter hand crack that's decently long (150 ft maybe?). easier but super fun

Tiger Tissue, Fuzzy Undercling, Up Yonder, Ro Shampo, Mercy The Huff, Table of Colors. Too many to list. Try using the search function. You can search by grade and route quality.

There are tons of classics there. Check out redriverclimbing.com for one of the best online routes databases I've seen.

My personal favorites:

Trad:
Autumn 5.8
Rock Wars 10a
Inhibitor 11a
B3 11b
Welcome to Ol'Kentuck 13a

Sport:
Any of the 5.10s at Roadside
Bathtub Mary 11a
The Gift 11d/12a
Check Your Grip 12a
Twinkie 12a
Iniquity 12b
Orange Juice 12c
Stunning the Hog 12d
Paradise Lost 13a

camhead wrote:There are tons of classics there. Check out redriverclimbing.com for one of the best online routes databases I've seen. My personal favorites: Trad: Autumn 5.8 Rock Wars 10a Inhibitor 11a B3 11b Welcome to Ol'Kentuck 13a Sport: Any of the 5.10s at Roadside Bathtub Mary 11a The Gift 11d/12a Check Your Grip 12a Twinkie 12a Iniquity 12b Orange Juice 12c Stunning the Hog 12d Paradise Lost 13a

I'll agree with all the trad routes except Ol Kentuck, only because it's the only one I haven't done on that list.

For sport, you cannot, absolutely cannot leave without tagging Amarillo Sunset. While you're down at PMRP hit Random Precision for a great out of character route at the Red.

No Place Like Home is a great route, and unlike most routes at the Red gets excellent exposure. It's an airy arete you can see above the tree line from the road.

Other than that I'd add in Andromeda Strain for a trad route.

The Inhibitor
Rock Wars
Muscle Shoals
The Return of Geoff Beene

Yup. MP is wacked out for the RRG. Go to the site Kaelen suggested.

12's - Military, Left Flank, Undertow, Midnight Surf, Solarium, Drive By
13's - Dark Side, Sanctuary, Purgatory, Drive By, Maddness

Top 5 people. :-)

I was hoping that there would be some agreement on favorites, but I guess there are really too many climbs there to expect that. Thanks for the replies.

+1 for Rockwars and also do Autumn which is just to the left of it both are 9+ and 10 Routes.

If you have a RRG guide book, flip to the back and do all of the 4
and 5 star routes for the grades you want to climb.

RRC.com had a thread a while back where everyone listed their "top ten" sport climbs. I tabulated the results to come up with a composite list. Here are the results:

Route - Grade - # of top ten votes
Mercy the Huff - 5.12b - 17
Orange Juice - 5.12c - 14
8 Ball - 5.12d - 10
Creep Show - 5.10d - 9
Table of Colors - 5.13a - 9
Fuzzy Undercling - 5.11b - 8
King Me - 5.11b - 8
Stunning the Hog - 5.12d - 8
whip stocking - 5.11a - 8
Bare Metal Teen - 5.12a - 7
Breakfast Burrito - 5.10d - 7
Steel Worker - 5.12c - 7
Buff the Wood - 5.12b - 6
Return of Chris Snyder - 5.11d - 6
Wild Gift - 5.12c - 6
appalachain spring - 5.13a - 5
Bandolier - 5.11a - 5
Convicted - 5.13a - 5
Creature Feature - below 5.10 - 5
Dracula 04 - 5.13b - 5
Prime Directive - 5.11b - 5
Seek the Truth - 5.11d - 5
Sex Farm - 5.12b - 5
Shanghai - 5.12d - 5
Soul Ram - 5.12c - 5
Stain - 5.12c - 5
Swahili Slang - 5.12c - 5
To Defy the Laws of Tradition - 5.10a - 5
Too Many Puppies - 5.12a - 5
yellow birck road - 5.11b - 5

Note that the list tends to favor easier routes, since they get climbed more. I've only shown routes that received 5 or more vots.

Ben F wrote:Here are some other good trad routes at various crags: Underling All in a Day's Work (I know the a-hole who did the FA and the a-hole who named it) Crack Attack Into Purple Valley Andromeda Strain

Dang, how could I have forgotten Crack Attack? Seriously, one of the best 5.9 single pitch pure hand splitters in the nation.

MorganH wrote:Top 5 people. :-) I was hoping that there would be some agreement on favorites, but I guess there are really too many climbs there to expect that. Thanks for the replies.

http://www.redriverclimbing.com/RRCGuide/

The top 5 rated routes are on the home page. Interestingly they include sport and trad routes from 10a-13a.

I'm only now leading 10's and (soon) 11a's, but I just did two great climbs that were 10a and a 10b, Kentucky Pin Stripe at Lady Slipper was a great climb with a power move and a slabby finish that was just a beautiful view from the top, and Murano a 10b which was in the PMRP which had a ton of varied climbing from plates to slab.. in one route.

My two cents anyhow.