Fine Whine, 5.9

4th Pitch- 160’- 5.8/ Make sure to watch the rope drag on this pitch. Climb up the short chimney and exit into a nice hand crack. Follow it up right and traverse back left across a solid patch of varnish. Make sure to place your pro sparingly here and via long slings to avoid punishing rope drag to the top. Traverse across the varnish out left and head up a thin seam of bad quality rock to a broad shoulder. This pitch sort of takes away any of the benefits of the quality of the first pitch on Fine Whine. Gear belay in rotten rock on the flat ledge above. Fine Whine, 5.9, 4 Pitches, First Creek Canyon, Red Rocks, May, 2010