Evening Deep? Water Solo

We had a plan to go solo 'Avoid Meeting The Portuguese Man Of War' - down at Rhossili, Gower

This is me on the first 'pitch' - 4a

Ed on the first 'pitch'

Ed on the first pitch



I'm on Year Of The Snail - VS 4b * (24m) .
The route starts just above the sea and goes up the middle of this wall.


Another Gower sunset

So the plan was to go with Ed Abbley to solo 'Avoid Meeting The Portuguese Man Of War', 40m, VS 4a, 4c, - **. So what went wrong - we got there about 2 hours after high tide (bad planning) - so we couldn't do it safely as a deep water solo, and the wind had picked up through the day, and the sea was no longer glassy calm. I did the route a couple of years ago with Dave Youren, and it was classic, traverse a wall, get past an incut corner, go through a cave, traverse a 4c wall, jump in the sea, swim a zawn, climb a final wall. High tide and soling is essential - but we missed the high tide :(

We did half of the route anyway where the landing (sea) would be safe (deep), and I also found 'Year Of The Snail' on the higher wall (where you don't fall off !).

A great night - we'll get the tides right next time ...