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The Cleavage
5.4 V-easy,
TR, Boulder, 30 ft (9 m),
Avg: 2.6 from 20
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FA: unknown
California
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> Cleavage Rock
Description
This route chimneys the obvious crack that separates the two bolted rocks on the far (north) side of the area.
Many people simply don't bother with pro, when we were there a group of poeple climbed the chimney with tennis shoes on, but didn't go to the top, as there is a bailout to the left (the start of the 5.12c and 5.11a climbs on the southeast side of the rock) 15 feet shy of the top of the route.
Protection
Setting up a toprope on the 3 bolt top anchor requires a long sling (10'), and you must climb the Cote Memorial Wall (5.3) route (or another) to reach the bolts.
[Hide Photo] The Cleavage, as viewed from the approach trail.
San Jose, CA
Only the bolts on the northern rock require the long (10') slings. I think they were about 3 or 4' from the edge, so a 10' sling with some limiting/redundancy knots in the middle should let you hang the TR safely over the edge from the northern rock. Or maybe two 120cm (4') slings would do it if you attached one to each hanger and knotted them together in the middle to form a master point. The southern Cleavage Rock bolts are much closer to the edge so we just used a standard quad anchor there. Short anchor story: for most people, best way to set a TR is climb Bat Crack then walk/butt-scoot/crawl to the northernmost anchor bolts on the south side of Cleavage Rock.
I climbed the southern face without stemming. The start can be easy or hard depending where you are. In the middle there are many nice crimpy holds and a few nice narrow ledges to stand on. At the top the holds get smaller so I had to go left and grab onto the arete in order to reach the top without stemming. Everyone in our group enjoyed this route--some stemmed, some didn't stem, and some climbed it twice (with and without stemming). Jan 21, 2020