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Theme Crags - Best Exemplars?

Climb On · · Everywhere · Joined Jan 2016 · Points: 0

https://www.mountainproject.com/area/122569397/space-invaders

Bonus- at least 4 of the route names are inspired by/in honor of women.

Wren Cooperrider · · Flagstaff, AZ · Joined Jul 2019 · Points: 430

Hobo jungle in flag has the best names imo and is among my favorite cragging areas too

Andy Roo · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Aug 2007 · Points: 10

Panty Wall in RR

  • victoria's secret, panty prow, wedgie, edible panties, panty raid, panty line, brief encounter, sacred undergarment squeeze job, boxer rebellion, black lace, the last panty, silk panties, cover my buttress, butt floss, thong, tighty whities, granny panties........
Marc801 C · · Sandy, Utah · Joined Feb 2014 · Points: 65

In BCC Utah is the Rush Wall:

  • New World Man
  • La Villa Stangiato
  • Rush N Bravado
  • 2112

Memory fails me, but I seem to recall somewhere in a relatively popular area is another RUSH crag with even more routes.

Hank Hudley · · Georgia · Joined Feb 2022 · Points: 0
Brent Kellywrote:

Well I just added one more item to my bucket list....

If you actually go down there make sure to hit up the boulders on the other side of the road. The huecos are sick.

Isaac Gromacki · · Nashotah, WI · Joined Mar 2018 · Points: 0

Sunnyvale in the Poudre Canyon

Greg Barnes · · American Safe Climbing Asso… · Joined Apr 2006 · Points: 3,725

What's the earliest example of a theme crag? Tuolumne has Tolkien route names back to the 1960s, here's a list I posted on Supertopo in 2012:

Hobbit Book - Charlie Raymond, Gordon Webster, 1965
Strider - Dick Erb, Steve Roper, 1968
Stairs of Cirith Ungol - Lloyd Price, Bob Marsh, 1969
The Cony - Tom Gerughty, Robbie Fenz, Tom Berry, 1969
Rivendell Crack - George Sessions, Dave Harvey, Buddy Huff, 1969
Pippin - Vern Clevenger, Mike Munger, 1971
Serrated Edge? appears as "Aragorn's Bane" in the '82 Alan Nelson guide… - Rich Doleman, Steve Williams (aid used), 1971
Hobbitation - Lloyd Price, Tom Gerughty, 1972
Sharky's End - Bill Nichols, Dave Yohalem, 1973
The Nazgul - Bill Nichols, Vern Clevenger, Bob Harrington, 1974
Galadriel - Bill St Jean, Alan Bartlett, 1977
Stomper - Alan Bartlett, Don Reid, Dimitri Barton, 1980
West Farthing wall - who named and when? first themed name is 12 years after the first route:
Master Samwise - Alan Barlett, Mike Dobbins, 1983
Black Rider - Alan Roberts, Rob Dellinger, 1983
Middle Earth - Bruce Brossman, Mike Breindenbach, 1985
Shrouds Have No Pockets - Don Reid, Alan Roberts, 1989
Whalin' Dwalin - Mark Tuttle ???80s??
Lothlorien - Greg Barnes, Karin Wuhrmann, 2003
Isengard - Greg Barnes, Jonathan DuSaint, 2006
Anduril - Greg Barnes, Karin Wuhrmann, Florence Scholl, Maki Grossnick, 2007
Narsil - Greg Barnes, Florence Scholl, 2008
Mordor - Greg Barnes, Joe Denicola, Linda Jarit, 2008
Not All Who Wander - Greg Barnes, Florence Scholl, 2009
Nasty Hobbits - Bryan Law, Steve Rathburn, 2010
Amon Amarth - Bryan Law, George Ridgley, 2011
One Tolkien Over The Line - Brian Bennett, George Ridgley, 2012

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1935710&msg=1935862#msg1935862

Cosmic Charlie · · Washington · Joined Feb 2014 · Points: 0
Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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