| From: | USA 🇺🇸 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Hardest Trad (Worked): | HVS |
| Notable Partnerships | |
| Steve Wunsch | |
[1] Everything You Need to Know About Placing, Evaluating, and Trusting Pitons by Jim Erickson https://www.climbing.com/skills/how-to-place-evaluate-climbing-pitons/
[2] How Climbing Gear Has Evolved Over the Past 50 Years by Jim Erickson https://www.climbing.com/gear/cllimbing-gear-history-erickson/
[3] Cleaning Up Climbing History. The Truth Behind 13 Pivotal Ascents and Events by Jim Erickson https://www.climbing.com/people/cleaning-up-climbing-history/
2 recorded ascents.
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| Climb | Grade | Style | Ascent Date | Suggested Grade |
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| The Naked Edge | E4 | Alternate Leads | 1971 | |
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First ascent. With Duncan Ferguson. First free ascent.
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| Regular Northwest Face | HVS | Lead | worked | May 1976 | |
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With Art Higbee. Nearly free ascent: established the free variations to the lower pitches and climbed the Zig-Zags all free but was stymied by a short section on the penultimate slab pitch. Erickson top-roped and bolted a free variation to this pitch in the fall of 1976 but did not lead it. Higbee's solution to the Zig-Zags is now graded 5.12d/13a and their nearly free route had some of the hardest climbing in the world at the time. References[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brBvkOPDCQI [2] https://enormocast.com/2024/12/enormocast-298-jim-erickson-clean-and-free/ |
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