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Best Route Name of All Time Contest

Wayne Wallace · · Seattle, WA · Joined May 2013 · Points: 957

Pastor of Muppets.

tallguy · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Sep 2010 · Points: 0

It's not on MP, but I could have sworn that I climbed "foreskins of our hard fathers" right next to the original "hardskins of our forefathers" in Cochise.. 

Nick Henscheid · · Seattle, WA · Joined Feb 2013 · Points: 672

Couple local greats from S. AZ:

FIUTT (Fuck It, Use The Tree) (5.9+)
Lizard Marmalade Direct (5.10+)
Sound of One Hand Thrashing (5.11+)
Oops, I Sharted  (5.11+ Offwidth)

Juan Vargas · · Bakersfield, CA · Joined Apr 2014 · Points: 1,150

Flight of The Gumby at The New

jonathan howland · · San Francisco · Joined Sep 2006 · Points: 652

Broski/Linaweaver

Gerald Adams · · Sacramento · Joined May 2019 · Points: 0

"Separate Reality " & "Grand Illusion " 

ryan albery · · Cochise and Custer · Joined Mar 2009 · Points: 290

Of Quartz it’s a Dike

CrimpDaddy WesP · · Chattanooga!! · Joined Dec 2015 · Points: 3,525

I mean simply naming a route something awful doesn't really warrant a "best route name ever" award. The name has to be inspiring and aesthetic - yeah OK maybe I'm an idealist, but I still appreciate rad names for rad routes.

Pure Imagination -RRG
Cascading Crystal Kaleidoscope -Gunks
One Summer in Paradise - Swiss
My Heart Grew Wings Under Desert Skies -Bishop

Dallin Carey · · Missoula · Joined Aug 2014 · Points: 222
CrimpDaddy-WesP wrote: I mean simply naming a route something awful doesn't really warrant a "best route name ever" award. The name has to be inspiring and aesthetic 

I also appreciate an inspiring, often somewhat poetic names. Even better if the routes have a good story behind them.

My favorites: 'Infinite Patience' and 'Beyond Good and Evil'   

Choss Connoisseur · · SLC · Joined Sep 2017 · Points: 15

Mudflap Girl - Glenwood Canyon

Kristen Fiore · · Burlington, VT · Joined Sep 2014 · Points: 3,379

I'm bored of the poetic so I'll take the weird/gross/childish... I've had the pleasure of naming a number of routes so here are my faves:

No Fun at Camp no Sex at Breakfast
Three Raccoons in a Patagonia Fleece
We Want no Loss Nor Gain of Life
Swing Softly and Carry a Big Splint (Ice, I can't take credit named by a partner)
Regular Standard Wiessner Route Direct Direct
Doug the Subway Fugitive (Any Car Talk fans out there?)
Raising Money for Polar Bear Erections

Not mine but my all time favorites:

Butt Bongo Fiesta - Rumney, NH
Can I Do it Till I Need Glasses? - NRG
Lactic Acid Bath - NRG
Fingers in a Lightsocket - Moab (Made much more epic when that guy lost his fingers in it...)

Francesca Parratt · · Worthing, West Sussex · Joined Jun 2017 · Points: 160

The Pigskin Bus Pulls Into Tuna Town- 6a (5.10b) Cheyne Weares, Portland, UK

It took me a while to get the name but when I did- jeez!

J B · · Front range · Joined Mar 2019 · Points: 70

Motor Booty Pimp Affair - 10d @ RRG

Spencer Cone · · Durango, CO · Joined Jul 2016 · Points: 206

Spear Me the Details on the Spearhead in RMNP.

Gumby King · · The Gym · Joined Jun 2016 · Points: 52
CrimpDaddy-WesP wrote: I mean simply naming a route something awful doesn't really warrant a "best route name ever" award. The name has to be inspiring and aesthetic - yeah OK maybe I'm an idealist, but I still appreciate rad names for rad routes.

Pure Imagination -RRG
Cascading Crystal Kaleidoscope -Gunks
One Summer in Paradise - Swiss
My Heart Grew Wings Under Desert Skies -Bishop

Under those criteria you missed "Snake Dike"

C Limenski · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Mar 2016 · Points: 15

I think snake dike is awful, inspiring and aesthetic all at once.

Jason Halladay · · Los Alamos, NM · Joined Oct 2005 · Points: 15,686

I've always liked Ferrous Wheel on the Iron Man wall. 

Mikey Mayhem Sheridan · · CO · Joined Oct 2007 · Points: 211

Tickle My Blossom 11a R  Staunton State Park.  Named after a tree branch that hit us in the yam bag on the first decent.  The branch has since been removed.

Joey Chicharrones · · Middle Earth · Joined Nov 2017 · Points: 4,762

“Boogie til you puke” was unofficially renamed “Boogie til you poop” after someone shit their pants on it

Ryan Dresser · · Boulder, CO · Joined Mar 2017 · Points: 81

Harder than your husband. 

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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