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Peak Mountain 3

Cold Turkey

FA Jim Erickson and Jim Hofman, 1969
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Description

Much better than fowl lunchmeat and stiff for the grade. Scramble right from

Positively 4th St.

and belay from an evergreen. Up friable 5.8 chimney (RP and slung spike protection) onto a great jug then ledge. Lieback a sharp, pebbly, right-facing corner seen 20 feet. left of

Air Mail

. Turn into a crystalline, thin crack with nice locks and hand jams, and some steepness. Finish up easy but loose corners to large tree with rap rings.

Rappel 140 feet or rope off toward the Rincon.

Nowadays, this would be F10 on the Sinks Bar jukebox.

Protection

Standard Eldo with mid-size RP and #3.5 and #4 Friend.


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