On July 4, Chase Krumholz and I established a 1,000’ rock climb on the south face of Storm Point. The route lies about 300’ east of the popular Guides’ Wall and 50’ east of Vieux Guide. It adds six pitches above Hot Dogs (5.9), an excellent 140’ crack climb established by Paul Gagner and Jim Woodmencey in 1986.

Above Hot Dogs, three moderate pitches led to a fantastic 5.10- we dubbed the “S-Pitch,” featuring a finger crack, a blind roof pull, and an unlikely hand traverse. After a penultimate 5.10- hand crack pitch, we scrambled up a rope length of easy fifth and fourth class to the top of a small gendarme on Storm Point’s southwest ridge—a logical end point.

In late September, we made the route safer by fixing two pitons on the S-Pitch and a third piton in the belay alcove at its end. We named the route Chilly Dogs (1,000’, III 5.10- PG-13). It is likely the first new route in this area since Benja Glatz, Ben Hoiness, and Justin Willis established Attritus (600’, 5 pitches, 5.12-) in 2019.       

       —Brandon Wanthal