Tehipite Dome, southeast face, Astro-Gil
California, Kings Canyon National Park
Author: Scotty Nelson, Pullharder Alpine Club.
Climb Year: 2012.
Publication Year: 2013.
In September, Shaun Reed, Brad Wilson, and I spent two weeks establishing a new route on Tehipite Dome in Kings Canyon National Park. The route, Astro-Gil (1,700’, IV 5.11), ascends the previously unclimbed southeast face up bullet stone. We had splitter weather and saw no people except for a group of Sierra Club hikers. We named this route after our friends Gil Weiss and Ben Horne, who perished during the descent from Paclaraju Oeste in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, after establishing a new route. Vamos a la cumbre!
Scotty Nelson, Pullharder Alpine Club
Media Gallery
Astro-Gil on Tehipite Dome.
Matt Othmer
Thin climbing on Pitch 7, The Honey Badger Traverse.
Scotty Nelson
Shaun Reed leading the fourth pitch of Astro-Gil, a new 11-pitch 5.11 route on Tehipite Dome.
Scotty Nelson
Wilson climbing up featured rock.
Scotty Nelson
Reed leading up a long crack as the exposure grows.
Scotty Nelson
More new routes await on this aspect of Tehipite Dome.
Scotty Nelson
Reed leading the Gil-Wiess Memorial Offwidth on Pitch 4.
Scotty Nelson