Y Not Continue?

After we climbed the

Honey Pot Dihedral

and the right

Y Crack

, we wanted to continue. Maurice led straight above the

Y crack’s

finish, up a very thin crack in a right-facing corner system. He then continued up an offwidth and a thin crack in a face. He led the final pitch up scratches in the glassy, polished, short headwall. As I was following our third pitch (above the ground, first pitch of our continuation), Bill Kees yelled up from the ground, saying that we were “on a new pitch!”

Start at the finish of the right

Y Crack

, two pitches above the ground.

Lots, from tiny to fist, maybe bigger. I’ve found Ball Nutz and smaller Tri-cams to be very useful at Ophir, especially on the blank faces.