One Day Free Ascents of El Cap

Bump for 2025, anyone want to add a name to the list? bunch of under the radar people can do this now

Updated, reformated

Lynn Hill- Nose 9/94

Multiple Ascents/Not Freerider

Tommy Caldwell- Salathe 5/02, Nose 10/05 (twice!), Freerider 10/05,  (Triple Crown 5/12) Golden Gate 6/07, El Corazon10/14, Magic Mushroom 6/08 

Yuji-Salathe 9/02 

Honnold-Freerider 5/07, (FREE SOLO 6/17), Shaft 11/14, Salathe 5/09, El Corazon 10/14, Heart Route via Freeblast 6/15, Golden Gate, Pineapple Express 6/19,

Brad Gobright-Freerider 6/15, Heart Route via Freeblast, Salathé in 13 hrs 5/18, Corazon in 19.5hrs 10/18, Shaft in 17.5hrs (TRed 13c Corner)5/2019, Pineapple Express 6/19, Golden Gate 6/19,

Jordan Cannon Free Rider 14.5 hrs 10/19, Golden Gate 20.5 hrs 11/20

Sonnie Trotter El Niño in 13 hrs via a new free variation “Pineapple Express” 11/18

Emily Harrington, Golden Gate 21.5 hrs 11/20

Seb Berthe Freerider 11/17 15:40 team free with Siebe Vanhe, El Niño/Pineapple Express 4/22 17 hrs, all onsight except Eismeer!

Connor Herson: Golden Gate, El Corazon spring 2025 14 & 14.5 hrs

Freerider

Huberbaum- Freerider FA 10/98

Cedar Wright & Nik Martino 6/07

Ben Bransby & Ivan Tresch

Rob Miller 03

Steph Davis 5/04

Dean Potter

Leo Holding 6/08

Stanley Leary with Leo 6/08 and Honnold

Jake Whittaker with Honnold 10/07

Brian Kimball with Honnold

Jesse Huey

Walker Emerson & Eliot Carlson?

James Lucas 5/15

Mason Earle

Cody Simms 

Dan McManus & Ben Bransby 

Niels Tietz & Mayan Smith Gobat Team Free 10/11

Seth Carter  

Pete Whitaker  rope solo 11/16 20:06 & with Jacob Cook

Jacob Cook stashed water 11/16 16:45

Nik Berry  12.5hrs with Mason Earle

Siebe Vanhe (with Seb Berthe) team ascent 11/17 15:40 

Will Stanhope?

Louis Mullerliele 16 hrs with ‘Mike’ 12/16

Hayden Jamieson & Aaron Livingstone 22hrs Spring ‘21

Sam Stroh 10/21 18:51

Brent Barghahn & Amity Warme 18:51 Team Free, Stash-less

Ethan Morf 18:06 6/2025

Any other known 1 day FREE 

ascents?

Fastest Known Times

Freerider: 3:56 Honnold Free Solo 6:15 Team Free TC & Honnold

Salathé: 8 Hours Honnold

Nose: 11 hours TC

Golden Gate: 16.5 hours? Brad Gobright,  but Alex Honnold's is unknown

Magic Mushroom: 20 hours TC

El Corazon: 15.5 Hours

The Shaft: 12 hours

Pineapple Express: 13 hrs (14.5 team free)

If you haven't already seen it: web.stanford.edu/~clint/yos…

Clint makes a note if the ascent took longer than a day.

That was my primary source for the post, always a good read!

Walker Emerson & Eliot Carlson on Freerider??

James Lucas Freerider 5/2015

Brad Gobright 6/2/2015 15 hours, Freerider (his first el cap free ascent)

Brad Gobright and Alex Honnold 6/23/15
Heart Route via Freeblast 15 hours

http://eveningsends.com/climbing/the-day-i-sent-freerider-in-a-day/
In this phenomenal account of what its like to free El Cap in a day, James Lucas says 19 people did it before him, so either Eliot Carlson did do it, or I'm missing someone.
Or he just used this list for his essay...

When did honnold free el cap?

that guy named seb wrote:When did honnold free el cap?

At a minimum, all of the times listed in the post at the top of this thread.

that guy named seb wrote:When did honnold free el cap?

Which time? He has freed a few routes on El Cap 8 times (that I know of) between 2006 and 2014.

Pete Whittaker rope solo Freerider in 20+ Hours 2016
Also did it with Jacob Cook in 17 hrs weeks prior

Seth Rotul (not sure of his last name spelling) He passed us when I tried the rider in the fall. I ran into his partner and he sent not sure of his time. Dude is a total underground crusher. I found his name on a FFA on Watkinks in the new Sloan book

Will Stanhope, I heard from his enormocast

Its rather amazing the number of free and FIAD "underground" ascents out there. These kinds of lists will never be anywhere near accurate.

Mark Hudon wrote:Its rather amazing the number of free and FIAD "underground" ascents out there. These kinds of lists will never be anywhere near accurate.

Truth! I do love nerding out on Clint's website and on Sloan's speed section of his website. I also love it when I find out something totally bad ass that no one reports! Its pretty easy for that to happen these days since all that climbing media does to report sends and the like is to repost an instagram post. The level of reporting is pretty piss poor.

For example, I've been stuck in NH so when I heard about Pete's FR rope solo I was blown away. Unable to run into him in the valley and be a fan boy and ask him about it I searched for some reporting. I think gripped mag was the only news source to do an actual interview. And alpinist was the only one to report the other two free climbing rope solos of the FR.

Updated with Fastest known times and new names

Update bump

I don't see Nik Berry on this list

Good catch, What's he done John?

Freerider in 12 hr 30 min. 2010 with Mason Earle jugging in support. Also free ascents of quite a few other lines on El Cap, including one of the only known team free ascents of Salathe Wall from ledge to ledge.

http://nikberry.blogspot.com/2012/10/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-ja-x.html

Bump for Emily Harrington, well done!!