The Big 50+ Tick List

The ultimate crag route tick list of all the great and powerful climbing routes to add to your climbing agenda

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  
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

Big Fifty List