North America, United States, Wyoming - Tetons, Storm Point, Trinity Buttress

Publication Year: 1971.

Storm Point, Trinity Buttress. This series of three buttresses, one above the other, lies directly to the left of the southwest ridge. Yvon Chouinard and TM Herbert on August 1 made the first ascent of this route (III, F8) by keeping more or less to the crest of these buttresses. The first involved a thin crack and finished with an F7 layback and jamcrack. The second buttress was climbed first up to a pine in an upward traverse to the right until the final 150-foot F8 face was climbed. The last buttress finished with two easy pitches after a difficult crack on the left side was ascended. Descent was made via a ledge system to the east. This climb has excellent rock and one of the shortest approaches in the Tetons.