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Small Brown Mouse 

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FA: Robert Flaugher & Elaine Flaugher
Type: Sport
Consensus: 5.10a [details]
Length: 50 feet
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Submitted By: Nick Wilder on Apr 14, 2005


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Perfectly camoflauged Horny Toad free soloing his ...


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Interesting crux at a bulge about halfway up. Good, safe bolt placements. Two-chain anchor on top (and for all routes on Ridgeline). Start directly behind the leftmost of three pine trees. This is the leftmost route on the rock.


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6 bolts



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Seemed like a 9+ until the move I'm about to do in the picture, which is definitely more like a 10a for a short person. After that it's a ladder. Looks like it has big jugs, but nothing is as good as it looks and several moves are very thin. Easy to be overconfident on it and fall. Fun route.<br />

Seemed like a 9+ until the move I'm about to do in...

Muscling through the crux.

Muscling through the crux.


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By Anonymous Coward
Oct 8, 2005

If you are coming onto this route ("Small Brown Mouse") for the first time, it is at least a 5.9c. Luckily the bolts are placed well so that the spots where a climber is likely to have trouble will give you safe drops through the air. A fun, and exciting climb for intermeadiate leaders. Two Stars! I agree with Thorkel that this is the hardest route on this rock from an overall perspective. Tony Lusk's excellent "Firezone" has a more technical starting move, but dropping 4 feet off the mantle shelf does not produce the "freak-out" factor of falling from the muscle crux of SBM!

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By David C. Burke
From: Tucson, AZ
Mar 11, 2007
rating: 5.10a

For anyone under 5'8" I would say this is more like 10a.

By nathan ekama
Jan 2, 2008
rating: 5.10a/b

I'm 6' and still haven't ticked SBM off. It's a very sustained climb, on the pumpy side and I'd argue for the 5.10a/b range.