Phobos, 5.9

1st Pitch- 15m- 5.9/ Several, including my second, think this is a 5.10- pitch. I found it fairly straight forward, although fun and challenging for the grade. There is a bolted line up left on sparse face climbing at 5.11 (Mocha Velvet Stout). There is also a 5.11 roof variation of Phobos to the right. This first pitch follows the obvious hand crack in between those two. Pass a piton and when you start to enter a roof cavity, you can stem and chimney and eventually pull our right below the roof on positive jugs. Then up easy ground to a 3”-4” crack for a comfortable gear belay. Phobos, 5.9, 3 Pitches, Phobos Deimos Cliff, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, July, 2013