A Picture of Horse chute start please.

Hi guys In the aid of finding the route as easy as possible, Does anyone have a photo of the start of horse chute, it would be nice to see a picture against the topo. Thanks for any help.

Horse Chute starts by doing the first 5 pitches of Dihedral Wall.  Then you go left at the roof on p6 instead of right.

You should have no problem finding the start of Dihedral Wall.  It is the huge left facing corner system on the SW Face of El Cap which reaches the ground.

The "Great Slab" is the left side of this corner system.

The trail levels off and heads left at this point.

That it.

Yes, your circle on the photo is the exact start.

Looking up at the start of the Dihedral wall.

4th class up this ramp to the first anchor. 

Enjoy!

Belting thanks Luke Stefurak

Be aware of the raptor closures that cover this route now through July 15th

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/climbingclosures.htm

• El Capitan, SW Face – All routes between and including “Octopussy” to “Cosmos” are closed.

Fail Fallingwrote:

Be aware of the raptor closures that cover this route now through July 15th

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/climbingclosures.htm

• El Capitan, SW Face – All routes between and including “Octopussy” to “Cosmos” are closed.

Interesting, does this happen every year at this time? (March to July)

MAtthew Jaggerwrote:

Interesting, does this happen every year at this time? (March to July)

Yup. Generally a naturalist on staff will keep tabs of the nesting situation and open parts of the closure earlier than the July default depending upon where they set up their nests, successful nesting vs failed nests, etc, but I’d be surprised if there’s appropriate staffing under this current administration for something like that this year.