Looking at sour mash from the start. Right of fidler on the roof.

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Looking at sour mash from the start. Right of fidler on the roof.

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Looking up at the awesome pitch 4 lead by Paul Foster.

Rapping off sourmash over fiddler on the roof.

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Collin Henderson

Oct 24, 2004

“Looking at sour mash from the start. Right of fidler on the roof.”

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super fun face climbing

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Top of pitch 6. Definitely not at all staged

Pitch 6 where the climb takes on a sportish nature

Looking down from P4 belay--a super well protected climb.

Georg pulls on crack and face hold crux moves on the 5th pitch

annotated route (photo by Jascha)

Route Overlay Sour Mash (updated based on comments and re-climbing route, 2026).

Right when all the fun begins! Top of P2. Fall 2010<br>
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Photo Matt Kuehl

Looking up at pitch two, from the top of P1. It's good to combine P1 and P2, about 190 feet.

Looking down pitch 5

Following P6 on Sour Mash. This pitch is sprayed with bolts and soft for 10a. But the climbing is excellent.<br>

Looking down the best pitch of the route!

Pitch 1 corner

Pitch 6.

Very ascetic climbing throughout the length of the climb

Pitch 5 or 6 of Sourmash. Super classic

sooo nice looking up on the last half of pitch 6

Vaino Kodas, cruising the p6 crux

Looking up at the awesome pitch 4 lead by Paul Foster.

Looking at sour mash from the start. Right of fidler on the roof.

Rapping off sourmash over fiddler on the roof.

A view down sour mash from a top of pitch 6

Coming up pitch 5 beautiful climbing

the crux of the route was this 1st pitch for me.

Pitch 6 on Sour Mash

Avoid ending up here. Rap from lowest possible anchor above roof. Fall 2010<br>
<br>
Photo Matt Kuehl

Pitch 2 on Sour Mash

Pitch 4 on Sour Mash

Double rope rappel over the roof

Pitch 1 on Sour Mash

Topo, trip report at tenthousandtoofar.com

Mike at the top of pitch 1

thin crack on P1 (photo by Jascha)

Jascha approaching the final belay

Jascha on P1

Jascha cursing P6

Jascha on P2

Jascha on P4

Jascha on P5

Brandon Penkalski on the money pitch of Sour Mash

P3 (photo by Jascha)

Current status of the tat on the bush if you're rapping with an 80m

Tatiana feeling the exposure on pitch 6.

crux pitch

Jackie on the P1 or P2 as we did it.

Old horizontal SMC hanger high on the route. A newer bolt is closeby.

Tora and I running up Sour Mash!

Looking down from pitch four

passing through the small roof at the start of P2 (photo by Jascha)

Pitch 2 on Sour Mash

Starting pitch 3.

Pitch 3 on Sour Mash

Sour Mash, pitch 3

Pitch 5 on Sour Mash

thin traverse on P1 (photo by Jascha)

Pitch 6 on Sour Mash

P1 Anchor by the tree. Fall 2010<br>
<br>
Photo Matt Kuehl

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