This is an excellent rock climb. The movement is really fun, and the pockets are all pretty good. Start out with a mono on the ramp and make a big move out left, get your feet up and make some moves off some smaller pockets to come to a good hold at the third bolt. Continue up with big moves to more pockets to reach the final bolt. Move left and up good holds to the chains.

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I found a stick clip helpful as I thought the crux was right off the ground, and it is easy to hang draws when you lower off central pillar. Searching for Blanton's does experience some run off during the wetter months, so it may need a brushing if it has not been climbed in a while. Maybe height dependent?

Do it.

Searching for Blanton's

Blushing Crow

White Heat

Consumption

Dime Time

Shortie Sortie

Hale Bop

Mono a Mono

Anarchist's Lament

Velvet Sea

Fun, Fun, Joy, Joy

No Impact

Peter Bopp

War Party

Searching for Jose Cuervo

Angel of Mercy

Spike 'n Vein

Wind Blows High

Guardian Angel

Pocket Full of Kryptonite

Acid Ranger

Central Pillar

Titanic

Divided Sky

Little Creatures

Winter Storm Warning

Euro style, slab, on crisp orange pockets and white scar crimpers. Early route, early crux getting to and passing the bottom of the white scar then easier classic pockets.

Blushing Crow has it all: bouldery start, check; classic edges and pockets, check; monos, check; good hands but surprisingly thin feet, check. Start with the initial crimp and layback crux. Head right - Blushing Crow shares the start with White Heat (12d). A couple of moves up and right put you at the big move back left - crux number two. Find the hard to see hold quickly. Solve these riddles and fight the quickly developing pump - battle's end comes at fifth bolt jug.

Good climb on slightly overhanging stone, the namesake for the wall. Start on slippery feet and and an undercling, up to some edges by the second bolt.  Clip off a right hand edge, then make a long move/deadpoint to the left of two large pockets.  This is the first difficult move.  Clip the third bolt from here and then surf up on good holds to the fourth clip.  The crux is next, involving a long move from a left hand side pull mono to a down pulling right hand mono, and then up to a good pocket just left of the fifth bolt.  It is pretty cruiser from here, passing one more bolt before the anchor.

Leave the top of a block rail with extreme difficulty, using a flat edge surge to a left gaston and surge again up to a shallow pocket in a slight concavity aiming for the horizontal line of pockets. Difficult 2nd clip. Traverse right via a rose move then up slabbier pockets.

A slab with thoughtful engaging moves. Crux comes right after the first bolt by using a hidden pocket out right, don't get suckered out left with the bigger pockets. Clip the second bolt from a massive jug and continue up easier pockets to the chains. This route has been re-bolted with glue-ins.

This route starts just to the right of Winter Storm Warning 5.9, which climbs through the right side of a bulge.

Following very thin moves for the first few clips, while climbing to the left of the bolt line.  The crux is thin and delicate.  A moderate slab leads to an easier bulge crux right before the anchors.

This flat wall route has a "techno" bottom on monos to nicer pockets above. Bust widely spaced singles up and right then stink bug, frog, nicer brown colored bidoights and heucos to the anchor

Start the same as "Fun, Fun, Joy, Joy" then step left and continue up a flake to pockets.

A thin start (crux) leads to juggy pockets. It's a slab.

((Fun, Joy)^2)-2FunJoy is nothing special, but worth doing if you're running out of 5.10s and you're in the area.  There is a bit of afternoon shade at the base which is nice for the belayer.  This line is a bit unusual for Sinks, climbing more like a Shelf Road 5.10 with lieback moves up the crack at the start.

Begin just right of the juniper tree, scramble up to the ledge, and lieback up the crack for about 15', where great pockets lead around the buttress to the right.  A cruxy reach leads to the trivial, low-angle slab above.

A long varied climb that is worthy of a a star or two. Start up a small crack feature crimping the edges to easy climbing up to the 4th bolt. Move left and make some long pulls to reach the juggy featured rock. Quest up the fun pockets all the way up to the final bolt. Alas, when you are slightly pumped, and the anchors are in sight, the crux slaps you right in the face. The feet are good, but I had to use some tiny crimps to reach a jug right below the anchor.

A early, natural, hard, cool, line on the White Heat Wall.  Rip, twist the early crux on a well spaced crimp and deep pocket following the incipient crack. Then crank the micro-rose traverse to the orange streak and up in crisp pockets. The direct start is the “Sting” project. A holdless, unrealized mission **.

Searching for Jose Cuervo is one of the best 5.12's in Sinks and should be on every climbers list.

Start with a tricky slab up polished feet and small pockets to the base of the bulge where you come to a good undercling. Step left to a sinker pocket and then fire the bulge through in cut pockets on amazing flowstone. Continue up really fun, engaging moves to a rest at the horizontal. From here it is about 5.10 to the top up long moves on HUGE grippy jugs.

Amazing.

Climb the obvious crack to a low-angle section before reaching a steep, pocketed headwall.

This route is an easier variation of Guardian Angel.

A route in two parts.  A nice thin slab intro with well protected technical climbing leads up to a bulge.  Shake it out, because its pumpy and routefinding (on a sport route?) takes some time. Climb some initial big moves on pockets up and left into the bulge.  Ride it to the anchors. Stout and fun climb.

Another tricky slab. Mantel up on the large flake and lean out right to a incut rail. Use a series of opposing sidepulls to get established on the slab. Delicately pick your way to the top using edges and hard to see pockets. It gets easier the higher you go.

A stick clip is recommended for the first bolt.

Moves out left after a shared first bolt. Rejoins the route towards the top.

Warm up block, 5.11, then steep bulge, to the pocket full of krytonite, a right, single, undercling, 1st knuckle pocket, stomp walk, to better grips, to a 2 bolt lower off.

A newly realized project just left of White Heat. Start bouldering on sick convexity with half pad crimps 1.7m apart, high V-type bouldering into more climbable pockets, climbing above bolt 3 is 5.12+.

A fun route if you don't mind a single digit battle.  Involves a short crank off a mono to better pockets and fun laybacking.  After a ledge, you'll face big holds and big moves on the upper headwall.  Fun route!

Fun route, one of the longest routes in the White Heat area.

Moves up a sustained 5.10 mini-corner up to a good rest under a roof.  Then cranks out over the roof on good (but not too good) pockets.

The crux is getting up over the roof.  Then the rest of the route is just nice 10a.  Will stretch a 60 M rope to its max - be careful.

Pretty savage. Pull of the ground on a couple of good 2-finger pockets, and bump right to a shallow 2 finger pocket that has a wide thumb catch. Use terribly feet to delicately teeter your way up to a very shallow pocket level with the second bolt. Hold your breath and make a couple more hard slab moves to finally gain a better pocket by the 3rd bolt. Continue up better, but slightly pumpy pockets to the top.

If you fumble the 2nd or 3rd clips you might end up with less than healthy ankles, as you start this line by traversing out a balancy ledge to the first line and climbing above it through the low crux.  The climbing is great (if you aren't worrying about your ankles) and above the crux it is very very fun.

Winter storm warning is a good long route, with a couple of cruxes, and some runouts near the top through easier climbing.  Start with some interesting slab climbing, not the hardest moves, but certainly attention getting for the 5.9 leader.  As you pull up near the bulge the line trends left, skirting just underneath it before breaking over a small overlap at the right side.  This last part before this overlap is the crux of the route.  Some artfully footwork, and intelligent combination of bulge (above you) and face holds should get you to jugs to pull over the overlap.  Above this runouts on easy (5.7 or less) climbing interspersed with an well protected 5.8ish move up the face past some ledges and shelves to anchors near the top of the cliff.

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