Yosemite Climbing Records

See www.speedclimb.com for a complete list of Yosemite records.

Event Type Record Holder Time Date Notes Full Results
Three Cathedral Rocks team Bob Burd, Dave, Michele 10h 11/3/02 Up the Gunsight to the summit of Lower Cathedral Rock (1h), then up the North Face of Middle Cathedral Rock (5.6, summit in 7h45m), and then up to the summit of Higher Cathedral Rock (8h30m). See trip report.  
El Cap Gully solo Bob Burd 4h 5/17/02 See trip report.  
Poor Man's Link-Up (PMLU): East Buttress of El Cap and Snake Dike on Half Dome team Brandon Thau and Paul Hatalsky 13h59m 9/14/03 2nd fastest (and first to do it and possibly the first time HD and EC have been free climbed in one day): Bill Wright and John Black on 6/23/00 in 15h.  
West Face
of Leaning Tower and South Face of Washingtons Column
team Brandon Thau and ? ~23h ? reference: personal email  
Zodiac team Alex and Thomas Huber 2h31m20s June, 2003 Previously they had done 3h08m and 4h07m.

They short fixed continuously, often off a single piece of gear.
 
Lurking Fear team Yuji Hirayama and Nick Fowler 3h04m May, 2003 Yuji led the entire route, mostly free, short fixing and leading 5.12 cracks with 60 feet of slack.  
Cathedral Peak - Southeast Buttress Route - car to car solo Bob Pickering 1h44m07s ? car to car!  
Cathedral Peak - Southeast Buttress Route - base to summit. solo Bob Pickering 13m40s ? base of route to summit reference: his post to 14erworld.com