Miguel took this photo of me at the top of The Trough chimney in winter. 1989 Miguel Carmona photo.

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Miguel took this photo of me at the top of The Trough chimney in winter. 1989 Miguel Carmona photo.

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Alternate start: left side splitter crack and squeeze chimney. Approach from below, instead of traversing left from Jam Crack and Dave's Deviation. It's fun, adds 40+ feet of good splitter and a squeeze. It's not 5.4, but neither is the trough ;-)

Photo of The Trough, with lines drawn on it showing the route.

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Alternate start: left side splitter crack and squeeze chimney. Approach from below, instead of traversing left from Jam Crack and Dave's Deviation. It's fun, adds 40+ feet of good splitter and a squeeze. It's not 5.4, but neither is the trough ;-)

Miguel took this photo of me at the top of The Trough chimney in winter. 1989 Miguel Carmona photo.

Photo of The Trough, with lines drawn on it showing the route.

Some dudes are on The Trough. Notice the large tree just right of them, and the one way above them at the skyline. Belay here.

Photo showing the location of The Trough in relation to the whole rock. The route is outlined with a gray rectangle.

Climbing topo for The Trough at Tahquitz. See https://bitbucket.org/ben-crowell/tahquitz
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for the most up-to-date version.

Winter Sunset from top of pitch 3 of The Trough.

The final bit of friction to the top. With my friend taking crazy photo cues.

S Matz in the Trough

START of the Trough

Discussing final pitch with three climbers. Elizabeth, Morgan and Mark Ostgaard

S Matz tops out on The Trough

starting up the second pitch

We opted to stray away from the direct line up the trough in order to kill some time while the party of three above us got all members up to the pine tree ledge.

Jesse Leading P1

FIrst belay station. Occupied, so we went to the left side of the ramp. Seated belay.

Looking up the first pitch of the Trough.

Looking down the first pitch of the Trough

Cheesing up another Tahquitz classic!

My girlfriend, Devon finishing IMO the mental crux at the end of pitch 3. 7/20/14

looking up at pitch 3, ends at Pine Tree Ledge on the upper right

Looking upo the trough toward Piton Pooper (5.7+) and Pine Tree Ledge.

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