Ending Crack 

Ending Crack is hands down the best multipitch crack climb on the entire Central Coast. The first pitch is an incredible handcrack that takes gear like nobody's business. The second pitch is a little heads-up. Once the crack ends (yeah, that's why they call it Ending Crack), it's a little tricky to protect. Rap the route w/ 2 ropes. 300'.

Quite frankly, I have no recollection of doing this route. Does anyone know when Dennis and I did it? I guess I could ask Dennis ... he only recently turned 60 and his memory is probably better than mine. Lauria

Did this route yesterday. I found both pitches were of equal difficulty (5.6) and in fact, the second pitch felt a little more insecure because it was hard to protect as Mike Morley mentioned before.
On the second pitch small cams (red alien and smaller) might make the
protection better. The first pitch is great though. This route (first pitch) and Tree Root are great places for trad climbers to start.

The first pitch of Ending Crack absolutely swallows passive gear and cams, making this the single best beginner's lead in Ventura and Santa Barbara. As mentioned, the second pitch is anything but.

Don Lauria's comment above is a classic. He must not have liked it as much as the rest of us!

Thanks for the bolt clean-up! There's no need for any more bolts on Sespe! In fact, I was kind of surprised when the bolted rap stations went in a while back, but I guess they saved the trees.

I find it helpful to carry 2 sets of TCUs for the second pitch.

take the 1st pitch, its the best one

The second pitch (~5.7 maybe +) is definitely harder and headier than the first (~5.6). My partner said the second pitch of ending crack felt more like the first pitch on tree route. Beautiful multi-pitch climb, as both pitches are long. Definitely a must do, and a must repeat.

On P2: I thought there was only about a 10-20 ft section where the pro was really not great. Overall the pro was a bit trickier as well, several spots where you just plug n go possibly mental pro. About 25 ft below the end, where the crack ends, I just traversed right about 5 ft and got into the next crack over which still was not easy to protect initially (I think I threaded a sling through a hole in the rock for mental pro) but probably less scary than runout face. I was wearing new shoes which started hurting so bad, that it added to the intensity of the climb making it really mentally challenging to do with what felt like toes clamped in vice grips.

Also, I don't think my 70m would have made the rappel from the first anchor (which as I understand is not really a belay anchor, however, we had the wall to ourselves, so we just belayed from it with no problems). 2 double rope raps to get to the ground from the top. Didn't do the third pitch.

For the 2nd pitch, we did a variation where I moved to the left aiming towards the big tree on the ledge after the crack ended. Had to run it out because the rock quality was pretty bad, but it was fun and spicy. We only had 1 60-m rope, so we descended down the gulley and rapped 15-20 feet to the platform.