climbing routes
Ways up walls
Climbing routes are established paths up rock faces, ice walls, or artificial climbing structures.
Each route has a name, a difficulty rating, and follows a specific line of holds or features.
Climbers speak of sending a route (completing it), projecting a route (working toward completion), or putting up a route (establishing a new one).
Routes range from beginner-friendly to elite.
- crimpsPinches into waves
- rock faceSteep exposed stone surface
- jugsHandled pouring containers
- cruxMost important point
- betaGreek alphabet's second letter
send it · climbing wall · top rope · dihedrals · cracks · pinches · chalk bag · roofs · ridges · flakes · first ascent · pockets · exposure · free solo · ropes · edges · harnesses · mountaineering
- mountaineeringsummit, alpinist, mountaineer, ice axe, ice axes
- rock climbingbelay, climbing walls, carabiner, climbing gyms, rappel
- Joshua TreeJoshua trees, yuccas, yucca, rock formations, Mojave Desert
- mountain historyfirst ascent, mountaineering, exploration, expeditions, base camps
- Mount Rainiersummit crater, Paradise, Longmire, crevasses, lahar
- mountainsmountain, peaks, peak, summit, summits
terrain type
climbing routeslevel ground
hiking trails · walking paths · valley floors · plains · flatlands