January Rush

Climb the well-protected 5.7 crack to the top of a corner and swing out to climber's right over a small arete. Move up and left to an ascending hand traverse. The traverse is the crux and feels a lot trickier than it looks. Then ascend a slightly rotten corner system to ledges where you can move left to an anchor of slings around a block wedged in a crack.

This route begins in the finger crack to the right of

January Playmate

(obvious hand crack) and just around the corner from

Heart of Gold

(bolted face).

Recommend two three-inch cams for the traverse, one for the start and one for the finish.

I don't like the anchor on this one. The block is wedged into the crack but clearly detached. I backed it up with three cams (0.75, 0.5 and 0.3) for the belay. For the descent, we scrambled up and right about 50 feet to a tree with slings. From there, by rappelling to the east (climber's right, not straight down) you can rappel to the bolts on

Rush Buick

.

A 60m rope does not reach the ground from the tree.