This Basalt Boulder sits among the south section of boulders in the Vacaville boulders, known as the Woodcrest Boulders, due to their proximity to Woodcrest Drive. About 15 feet high, this large boulder has something for everyone who isn't afriad of falling from sketchy places. Easy highball face climbs, excellent traverses, and a nice large roof with lots of loose rock over the crest.
The routes on Cattle Drive Rock range from V0 to V6ish, when we where there someone had actally used chalk on the rock to establish eliminates. (Though this practice is not endorsed, encouraged, recommended, or looked upon favorably by us at climbingbayarea.com, the routes they had marked off where pretty damn tough.)
All climbing on this rock faces either West or South, So you will probably be in the sun unless the sun has already set or it's quite early in the morning.
Walk off the rock towards the main path.
Cattle Drive (V3) is an excellent low scrunchy traverse with some move that will baffle you on solid rock.
Getting There
Approach time: 5 minutes.
From the gate heading into the open space, head left and then uphill on the dirt road about 150 yard until you come to another gate which heads into the open space on the right side of the road, and may or may not be locked. Worm your way into the open space, and continue up the path which heads uphill and is directly in front of you.
Follow this path uphill about 150 yards past several other rocks which hold problems until you reach a rock on the left that has a large roof on the uphill face that is about 15 feet high. It sits about 30 yards to the left of the path, though the roof is easily seen from the path.
This is Cattle Drive rock.
The Classics
Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Cattle Drive Rock:
Aah, correction. I was baseing my statement on the discription given for the DNA boulder which is a bit confuseing. Thought these were two different names given for the same boulder. Turns out (clarified by the new Supertaco) that the DNA boulder is a seperate boulder all together and across the way form Cattle Drive. The DNA boulder is rightly named, but I still believe Cattle Drive is a name given after an assumed spree of FA's done decades after they were actually done. In which case at the time the bolder was known as crack rock to my understanding. Ahh, hell.... who cares what it's called anyway!
By Aron Quiter Administrator From: Berkeley, CA Sep 18, 2007
Everything there is vague and confusing enough, that I'd agree with the observaton "who cares anyway?"
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