Travelers won’t be able to take the scenic, oceanfront stretch of Highway 1 from Cambria all the way to Big Sur anytime this year, Caltrans announced Friday at Ragged Point. That’s because the agency has no timetable for when it will be able to clear a troublesome slide midway up the famed 100-mile coastline.

Continuous cracks on a troubled slope along Highway 1 are forcing Caltrans to delay the full reopening of the crucial link between communities on the Central Coast. In June, Caltrans predicted that the repairs on the Regent’s Slide near the Esalen Institute would finish in “late fall,