Royal Arches Speed Records

Royal Arches Route (solo, car-to-car)

  1. 0:52:26 -- Cedar Wright May 2000
  2. 0:57 -- Dean Potter. Fall 1998
  3. -0:57:04 -- Kevin Thaw. 1999
  4. 0:58:10 -- Hans Florine. August 2001
  5. 1:01:30 -- Hans Florine. September 2000 (right of original chimney start)
  6. 1:01:35 -- Damian Benegas. June 2000
  7. 1:01:55 -- Hans Florine. October 1999 (right of original chimney start)
  8. 1:02:05 -- Hans Florine. August 2001
  9. 1:03:15 -- Hans. May 2000. (left)
  10. 1:04 -- Cedar Wright. 1999
  11. 1:06:30 -- Hans Florine. September 1999 (left of original chimney start)
  12. 1:11 -- Hans. May 2000.(left)
  13. 1:12 -- Brian Biega. Sept 2000.
  14. 1:20 -- Jason "Singer" Smith. 1999
  15. 1:20 -- Kevin Thaw. 1999
  16. 1:30 -- aprox Miles Smart. 1999
  17. 1:39 -- Brian Biega. November 2001
  18. 2:06 --Scott Allen. September 1980

Royal Arches Route (team, time on route)

  1. 57:40 -- John Black and Bill Wright. June 24, 2000
  2. 1:08:00 -- John Black and Bill Wright. 1992. Then they hoofed it up to Crest Jewel on North Dome did that while getting rained on. Car to car in under 8.5 hours.
  3. 1:15:00 -- Steve Edwards and Hans Florine (2:19 car-to-car), June 2000.
  4. 1:22:00 -- Jacqueline Adams and Hans Florine. May 2000.

Double Trouble (two laps up Royal Arches)

3:30:00 Brian Biega.

Linkups:

*Snake Dike & Royal Arches combo (car to car)

  • 6:30:04 -- Brian Biega May 27, 2002. See the full write-up with splits.
  • 13:20 -- Aron Stockhausen, August 2003. Comments: Free Solo linkup of 2 of the best and most soloed Yosemite Valley 5.7s. Really great day, posting this not really as a record, but more in the hopes that someone more hardcore will shatter my time. My time is car to car with a 1 hour break between climbs for lunch and driving. Did Royal Arches first. August 2003