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Notes for a future article.

How to organize? By style and/or period?

Milestones
Pre-European settlement
 * Native American artifacts? e.g. Mt Langley arrowhead.

US exploration
 * 1860s California Geological Survey. Climbed summits mainly for exploration.

Peak bagging
 * 1864 to 1926: Peak bagging of "major" 14ers (or 1931?/3? for "minor" 14ers), mostly by scrambling as opposed to technical climbing.
 * Early 1900s Sierra Club high trips led by mountaineers made many first ascents.
 * year? Sierra Peaks Section lists

Technical rock climbing

Aid climbing
 * 1875 : Half Dome in Yosemite National Park is first aid climbed by George Anderson. He uses eye bolts in drilled holes as hand and toe holds. He uses a fixed rope to return to his high point each day.

Free climbing
 * 1931: Robert L. M. Underhill and Miriam Underhill. Robert is remembered for introducing "European climbing techniques" to the west coast of the US through article, "On the Use and Management of the Rope in Rock Work" in the 1931 Bulletin of the Sierra Club. Attended Sierra Club high trip, taught techniques in person to its climbers; East Face (Mount Whitney) that summer was first big wall climb in the Sierra.
 * 1931-1960s+: start of technical competence. high 5.x roped technical fa's in yosemite
 * 1957 Northwest Face of Half Dome, Yosemite, CA, USA. First grade VI climb in America. With Mike Sherrick and Jerry Gallwas.
 * 1967 American clean climbing "revolution." Royal Robbins's article in Summit.
 * 1993 : Lynn Hill makes the first free climbing ascent of the 3,000 foot Nose Route of El Capitan (~5.13).  Although there had been many ascents of The Nose, none had been done entirely without artificial aid. For years this had been the most coveted goal in the world of rock climbing.

Free soloing
 * Free soloing in Yosemite Valley
 * 1976 : John Bachar initiates an era of free soloing with his ascent of New Dimensions 5.11a

Bouldering?
 * Buttermilks

Sport climbing?

Ice climbing?