| We were making good progress at this point, but were about to make our one significant mistake of the day. We thought the rock above Yehuda with the trees was our landmark to turn right and into the bowl below the corner pinnacle. Wrong, oatmeal-breath! Those rocks are about 2/3 of the way up the gully, and turning right at them dumps you into a series of tough 3rd-class to low 4th-class rock climbing moves, which we were loathe to undertake without protection. As a result, we had to backtrack to the tree-studded rocks, then once again turn up-slope to the true ridge, not what looks like the ridge from this vantage point! The proper exit to the right from the gully will actually take you behind and above the rocks at the top-right part of this photo. |