Let me condense this a bit:

"I became steadily concerned that we weren’t moving fast enough to make the descent gully in daylight... We completed the final pitch...as the sun was setting... The next few hours were spent hiking...to look for the...descent in the moonless dark of night with a headlamp and a flashlight...frustration and increasing concern over not finding any resemblance of a trail or a cairn to follow...we ended up bushwacking through acres of madrone... I grew increasingly concerned that we were depleting our remaining internal resources... Around 11 p.m. we found meager shelter under a nearby boulder... Shortly after bushwacking through acres of madrone the night before, we passed an ideal bivouac location under a large granite boulder, where we could have stayed dry and built a fire. Because I hadn’t given up hope of descending at that time, we had passed on this opportunity. In retrospect, that was a mistake."

He seems to have made a lot of mistakes, IMO. This guy climbed in Yosemite "three decades ago". If he was twenty when he did it, he's fifty now. And he thought he could move as fast on a complicated, demanding climb as when he was twenty? DUMB.

Sunset that day was 7:35 p.m. He passed good shelter because he couldn't seem to understand that conditions had changed, and didn't stop for the night until 11p.m. Tired. Cold. DUMB.

He put himself and his son into a dangerous, possibly life-threatening situation so he could feed his ego and impress his son, then had to call for help so he could put other peoples' lives in danger. DUMB & STUPID.