Ascents of Late Afternoon Flake as Tick

Brilliant first pitch with some unlikely hand jams and gastons on a wall/flake and some nice smearing. A few ledges keep it from getting desperate. Id bought a bd 6 cam 2 days before doing this climb, max placed it on the first pitch, I placed it on the second. Pretty much needed both times, you could do this climb with just up to bd 5 in cams but it would be a touch pooey. The size 6 kept things comfortable. I gave max the first lead thinking that the descriptions of 'wide crack at the top' meant off-width, really i just made him lead all the hard climbing, and then lead about 15m of grade ~8 climbing which was low gradient assisted walking with a wide crack to hold and put gear into (lol).

big gear...