Continental Breakfast 

FA:  Jason Hass & Tony Bubb, 6/16/2006 New Route:  Yes Type:  Trad Consensus:  5.9 [details] Length:  1 pitch, 90 feet Season:  Spring to fall Views: 161 page views Submitted By: Tony Bubb on Jun 15, 2006 Add Photo  Add Comment

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Jason Hass on the F.A. lead of Continental Breakfa...

Description 

Named in keeping with the theme of the cliff, but also for its availability as a warm-up, probably the best easy route on the cliff.
It takes a light rack of cams and nuts and climbs better than it looks.
Start up the poorly protected but easy corner (5.5) to reach the first good gear and good ledges, continuing in the corner for quite some time. Good holds abound and appear just as needed. The grade goes up as you get further up, with a 5.9 crux just as you finish the corner and step up and right into the first of two diagonal cracks. Protect the first one and continue up to the second one, [which] will diagonal out and right at a 45 degrees with good jams for 4 meters to pop up on to the belay ledge at a fixed anchor as for Primal Scream.

Location 

Just left of Primal Scream, this corner and crack system climbs up a shrinking, right-facing corner for 20 meters, then goes up and right though 2 successive (passing through the lower to the upper, as the crux) cracks to diagonal right to the anchors as for Primal Scream. The anchor is presently a good fixed hex and a bolt, with cord and a rapid link, set for the 100' rap.

Protection 

Mixed set of cams from .75" to 3" and a set of nuts plus some slings (a few longer ones).