Wherever you go can you please also try and brush chalk off the boulders. The area is a site of special scientific interest and whilst low key climbing seems to be tolerated there is a concern that with it getting more popular it has the potential to become an issue.
Is there a rainproof option anywhere in case the weather gets worse?
It looked like there had once been a path down from the National Trust car park directly above Dolph's but that this has been a victim to the erosion so I think the only approach now is along the beach?
M - Very quick session at the southern end of Newgale Beach where Mike Adams has done some problems. Did Brute Arete (about Yorkshire 6C or 6C+ in the local currency) and a few others. Had a call from the rest of the family that they were ready to leave. I'd parked in the parking directly above the boulder and was in a hurry and the incoming tide made it look like I couldn't take the normal route back without getting wet feet, so made the unbelievably stupid decision that the direct walk back didn't look so bad. The steep, collapsing shale bank was childs play, but irreversable. The 100m of deep, very spiky, very impenetrable gorse and bramble (not visible from the beach) was not childs play. I was wearing shorts. Fortunately I had a fleece top with me. After a few meters of painful progress I shoved my legs down the arm holes and used them as trousers which helped a bit. The crux was descending into a crevasse thing which was also filled with this super-gorse and then having to climb out which required using my hands to mantel out. Fortunately I had a pair of flip flops so used them on my hands. Arrived at the path a prickled, bleeding shell of a man.
