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Our Favorite Topos

Here are some updated topos featuring some of our favorites. We will be adding about a topo about every month (ok...every 6 months), so check in often. If you need an updated topo to a route not listed, drop us a line and maybe we can get it for you. The way we have set it up is so at the top of the page, you have some notes by the ascent party, followed by the actual topo of the route. The topo itself may or may not have additional pitch by pitch notes. But, remember, these topos were updated by somebody who might have been drinking, mourning a lost loved one, or just full of it in general. Always use more than one source for your route information, and since rock and fixed gear changes constantly, FISH Products makes no claims to the accuracy of any of these topos. For some really good topo info, go to www.SuperTopo.com, a superb site and guide book for all your big wall topo needs.

• Lurking Fear VI, 5.10 A2 (FA: Dave Bircheff and Jim Pettigrew, 5/76)
• Aquarian Wall VI, 5.9 A3 (FA: Jim Bridwell and Kim Schmitz 6/71)
• Horse Chute VI, 5.9 A3 (FA: Charlie Porter and Hugh Burton 10/74)
• Son of Heart VI, 5.12? A4 (FA: Rick Sylvester and Claude Wreford-Brown 1971)
• Jolly Roger VI, 5.10 A5 (FA: Charles Cole and Steve Grossman 1979
• Magic Mushroom VI, 5.10 A4 (FA: Hugh Burton and Steve Sutton 5/72)
• False Shield VI, 5.10 A5 (FA: Charles Cole, solo 5/84)
• the Nose VI, 5.10 A2 or whatever you want. (FA: Warren Harding, Wayne Merry, and George Whitmore, 11/58)
• Real Nose VI, 5.10 A4 (FA: Steve Grossman and Charles Cole 1984)
• Mescalito VI, 5.9 A3+ (FA: Porter, Burton, Sutton, Chris Nelson 10/73)
• Hock-a-lito VI, 5.9 A3+ (FA: Hockey Night in Canada, Perry Beckham, Scott Flavelle, Dave Lane 5/80.
• MescaDawn VI, 5.9 A4 (FA: see Mescalito, then New Dawn Wall, Chouinard, Pratt, Hennick, Jones, and complete route was: Charlie Porter. Dawn Wall by Warren Harding and Dean Caldwell, 1970
• Space VI, 5.10 A4+ (FA: Charles Cole, solo 7/85)
• North America Wall VI 5.9 A3 (FA: Chouinard, Frost, Pratt, Robbins 10/64)
• Wyoming Sheep Ranch VI, 5.9 A5 (FA: Rob Slater and John Barbella 8/84)
• Gulfstream VI, 5.10 real A4 (FA: Steve Gerberding, Jay Smith, Harpole)
• Iron Hawk VI, 5.10 A4 (FA: Dale Bard and Ron Kauk 9/78)
• Native Son VI, 5.9 A4+ (FA: Walt Shipley and Troy Johnson 8/87)
  • Check out my Trip report, with photos.
• Tangerine Trip VI, 5.9 A2+ (FA: Charlie Porter and Jean-Paul de St. Croix,1973)
• Scorched Earth VI, 5.11 A5, w/big cheat stick (FA: Randy Leavitt and Rob Slater 8/87)
• Zenyatta Mondatta VI, 5.7 A4 (FA: Jim Bridwell, Peter Mayfield, Charlie Row 9/81)
• Zodiac VI, 5.11 A3 (FA: Charlie Porter, 11/72)
• Surgeon General VI, 5.9 A5 (FA: Eric Kohl and Walt Shipley 5/90)
• Born Under a Bad Sign VI, 5.10 A4+/A5 (FA: Bill Price and Tim Washick 1979)
  • Check out a Walt Shipley and Russ Walling Trip Report, with photos.
• Eagles Way VI, 5.9 A3 (FA: Mark Chapman, Mike Graham, Jim Orey 1976)
• Abstract Expressionist VI, 5.9 A5 (FA: Eric Kohl)
• East Buttress IV 5.10b (FA: Allan Steck, Will Siri, Willi Unsoeld, Bill Long, 6/53
  FFA: Frank Sacher and Wally Reed 8/64)
  HALF DOME, Yosemite Valley
• Queen of Spades VI, 5.9 A4 (FA: Charles Cole, solo 7/84)
• Kali Yuga VI, 5.9 A4 (FA: Walt Shipley et.al 10/89)
• The White Room VI, 5.10 A4 (FA: Walt Shipley and Sean Plunkett 9/88)
  WASHINGTON COLUMN, Yosemite Valley
• South Face V 5.10 A1+ (FA: Layton Kor and Chris Fredericks, June 1964)
• Skull Queen V 5.10, A2+ (FA: Chuck Clance, Jeff Altenberg and Steve Bosque 6/84)
• Prow V, 5.9 A2 (FA: Royal Robbins and Glen Denny 5/69)

• East Buttress, V 5.9 A0 or 5.10c (FA: Warren Harding, Jack Davis, Bob Swift 1954. FFA: Frank Sacherer and Ed Leeper, 1965. Right Variation, Yvon Chouinard, Mort Hemple, 1961)
  
  
• LEANING TOWER, Yosemite Valley
• Roulette V/VI 5.7 A5 (FA: Earl "the Pearl" Redfern and Tom Bepler 3/84)
• West Face V 5.7 A2+ (FA: Warren Harding, with Glen Denny, Allen MacDonald, and minor efforts by Les Wilson, Chris Westphal, George Whitmore, October of 1961)
  The SENTINEL, Yosemite Valley
• Direct North Face V 5.12a (FFA: Kevin Thaw and Adam Wainwright 10/94)
  The EAST SIDE OF THE SIERRA
  Go and see our fabulous Power and Rubber Bouldering Site for all the beta and pictures of the various venues around Bishop California.

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