Start near the left end of the corridor. Chimney up about 20 feet on cruddy rock and then step out onto the difficult looking face. The climbing is easier than it appears thanks to a nice sequence of holds. This is the best of the 3 routes on Southern Blonde.

Dick See Chicks

Chuck Chuck Chuckwalla

Unknown

Atomic Blonde

Arc of a Diver

What A Face

Cajun Spice Girls

This shares the same start as Dick See Chicks at the right end of the corridor. Chimney up and move left onto the top of the big boulder that leans up against the formation. From here take the thin crack up and left and finish past a couple bolts. There are some nice finger locks in the crack, but mostly you can just climb the face.

The guidebook gives this route an 'R' rating but it's not really runout. However some of the gear can be tricky to place well and the bolts at the top are spaced a little further apart than the sport climbs in Alabama Hills. If you don't want to lead it, it's easy to toprope it after leading What A Face; they share the same anchors.

From the left side of the slab, scramble up to a stance below a bulge to clip the 1st bolt. Pull the bulge onto the slab on small, positive edges and continue up the pillar on nice patina plates to its top. Climb the face above the pillar, past seven more bolts, using flakes and edges. Some flakes are hollow and friable. Use with caution.

This is a new-ish route with three distinct cruxes.  The climbing is interesting and challenging and harder than it looks.  All the clipping stances are great, but it's nice to stick clip the first bolt as a fall into the slot below would be nasty.  Folks who know this route, please feel free to amend, change, fix anything I'm posting!

Atomic Blonde climbs the stellar patina plates on the left side of the north face. Use side pulls and sharp edges to gain larger holds on the heavily patina plated face to the anchor for Arc of the Diver.

Imagine the arc of a diver as you begin to ascend the bullet hard patina plates that arc in a left trending traverse across the north face of the boulder. Boulder up to the first bolt and work through the moves suspended from patina plates and input edges of all sizes to the anchor.

There is a corridor at the base of the Southern Blonde formation. This route starts near the left end of the corridor. After a steep start, it's easy featured slab to the anchors.

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Routes in Southern Blonde