Climbing by the sea....

Not quite as simple as it sounds when one is based in North Devon....some of the cliffs are a little 'adventurous' (for that read loose!!) whilst others have pretty horrible approaches...add that to the tidal part and that I am only leading around severe at the moment...


Claire and I looked at a couple of venues; however we did get one nice Diff route down on the reverse slab of Brownspear Point. The approach was by a lovely low tide boulder hop which takes you round into a secluded bay that is not possible to get to from above. The route was a lovely diff - with good but spaced gear and some lovely padding. From the bottom it looked like you could abseil off some blocks above the cliff...however when I got there there was a steep loose grass/rubble slope up to the blocks which looked awful loose....

Discretion being the better part and all that, I lowered off a perfect nut 6 and Claire could have a run up and down the slab. It would have been nice to do some routes on Lundy, however with the bird bans in place and me not feeling 100% it would have been dicey - ditto for routes on the N. Devon coast....would be nice to go back soon though...

Sunset from the campsite