During your long rock climbing journey visiting all the local popular rock climbing crags you will most likely climb a certain similar group of routes that all other persons have also climbed in the past. That group or list constitutes the vast majority of the commonly well-known rock climbing routes located in this region. This list grouped here is slightly expanded (increased to 50 today) from an original concept started long ago. This well known power list tends to be the great core crag routes that most rock climbers eventually strive to do.
This list only taps the local Portland zone crags (Madrone to Beacon), but skips fine places further afield like French's Dome, Pete's Pile, Klinger, Area51, etc. This lists goal is purely Portland focused for convenience sake.
So what's holding you back — start today and put this ultimate crag routes group on your Must Do List.
# | Route | Grade | Crag | |
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1 | Gandalf's Grip | 5.9 | Broughton Bluff | |
2 | Classic Crack | 5.9 | Broughton Bluff | |
3 | Sheer Stress | 5.10a | Broughton Bluff | |
4 | Free Bird | 5.11a | Broughton Bluff | |
5 | Dracula | 5.12a | Broughton Bluff | |
6 | Superstition | 5.11a | Broughton Bluff | |
7 | Lost Boys | 5.10d | Broughton Bluff | |
8 | Traffic Court | 5.8 | Broughton Bluff | |
9 | Edges and Ledges | 5.8 | Broughton Bluff | |
10 | Loose Block Overhang | 5.9 | Broughton Bluff | |
11 | Sheer Energy | 5.10a | Broughton Bluff | |
12 | Shoot from the Hip | 5.10b | Broughton Bluff | |
13 | Gorilla Love Affair | 5.10d | Broughton Bluff | |
14 | Phylynx | 5.11b | RBQ | |
15 | Emotional Rescue | 5.10b | RBQ | |
16 | Uncola | 5.11c | Carver Cliff | |
17 | Smerk | 5.11a | Carver Cliff | |
18 | New Generation | 5.8 | Carver Cliff | |
19 | Angular Motion | 5.12a | Carver Cliff | |
20 | Where the Wild Things Roam | 5.11d | Madrone Wall | |
21 | Beam Me Up Mr Scott | 5.11c | Madrone Wall | |
22 | Ant Abuse | 5.10a | Madrone Wall | |
23 | Mr Noodle Arms | 5.11b | Madrone Wall | |
24 | Nouveaux Riche | 5.10c | Madrone Wall | |
25 | Snake Face | 5.9 | Ozone Wall | |
26 | Masterpiece Theater | 5.11c | Ozone Wall | |
27 | Carrots For Everyone | 5.10a | Ozone Wall | |
28 | May Day | 5.10c | Ozone Wall | |
29 | Chain Mail | 5.11b | Ozone Wall | |
30 | High Plains Drifter | 5.10d | Ozone Wall | |
31 | Stepchild | 5.10a | Ozone Wall | |
32 | Rauch Factor | 5.10c | Ozone Wall | |
33 | Standing Ovation | 5.10a | Ozone Wall | |
34 | Dad's Nuts | 5.10a | Ozone Wall | |
35 | Getting Your Kicks | 5.11a | Ozone Wall | |
36 | Jill's Thrill | 5.9 | Beacon Rock | |
37 | Fear of Flying | 5.10b | Beacon Rock | |
38 | Blownout | 5.9 | Beacon Rock | |
39 | Borderline | 5.11b | Beacon Rock | |
40 | Flying Swallow | 5.10d | Beacon Rock | |
41 | Blood Sweat and Smears | 5.10c | Beacon Rock | |
42 | Steppenwolf (to Big Ledge) | 5.10c | Beacon Rock | |
43 | Free for Some (complete) | 5.11a | Beacon Rock | |
44 | Pipeline | 5.11b | Beacon Rock | |
45 | Young Warriors (multi-pitch) | 5.9 | Beacon Rock | |
46 | Cruisin' | 5.7 | Beacon Rock | |
47 | Right Gull | 5.10a | Beacon Rock | |
48 | Ten-a-Cee Stemming | 5.10c | Beacon Rock | |
49 | Winter Delight | 5.10b | Beacon Rock | |
50 | Sufficiently Breathless | 5.10a | Beacon Rock | |
51 | Dod's Jam (multi-pitch) | 5.10c | Beacon Rock | |
52 | Windsurfer | 5.10b | Beacon Rock | |
53 | Free for All | 5.8 | Beacon Rock | |
54 | Pioneer Route (multi-pitch) | 5.8 | Beacon Rock |