Climbs 52
Rocktype Culm
Altitude 4m a.s.l
Faces W
Steve Gibbs halfway up Seaward Edge (HS) on the spectacular folded sheets of culm rock at Gull Rock. © Mark Glaister
Not high - routes up to 120ft - but interesting, sunny and near a family beach (Welcombe Beach). Slabby routes. Easily the best is Walking On The Moon (HVS 5a).
28/08/16 - Abseil above main slabs is now relatively safe, using ropes round three massive spikes as well as the rusty peg. Only a matter of time before the ropes start weathering though.
30 Oct 22 - The main abseil station at the top of the Micro slab is in a very bad state, use your own judgement for its use. I would have replaced the belay however the heavens opened with a cataclysmic down pour which forced an early retreat.
Tidal in many parts, though the central slab should be uncovered at high water.
Reached either by traversing from Welcombe Beach (low tide) or Marsland Mouth. Or scramble down the headland by a faint path to the top of the promontory, and abseil (pegs in situ).
Both Rockfax and SW Climbs imply that the Welcombe Beach approach is accessible 3 hours either side of low tide. We left rapidly just 2 hours after low tide, and had to wade through knee-deep water! Also worth noting that although the crag dries very quickly, the boulders on the beach take more time, and many of them (the green and brown ones) are treacharously slippery when wet an hence slow going - the described 25 minute approach took is an hour and a quarter on the way there!
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