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Only a few routes have been Deep Water Soloed at Gogarth, those that have are perhaps the more adventurous and 'Out There' experiences of this genre of climbing. The cream of the crop would appear to be Electric Blue at Rhoscolyn Sea Cave Zawn.

If you have DWS any routes at Gogarth then please add to the list, soloing in the vain hope that you won't fall off doesn't count! Stevie Haston soloed Positron but I think the headwall is a touch high for DWS!

Rhoscolyn
Electric Blue
Round the Horn
Band of Westies

Trearddur Bay

Gogarth
Pentothal first pitch

Wen Zawn
Johnny's attempt at wall right of Rubble. Ended in sea between 2 big boulders
Britomatis (but watch that bloody rock)

Flytrap Area
Johnny's righthand finish to Arachnid
20000 Leagues Under the Sea
Dai Leming (Lola)

God's Bone (see Tsunami Zawn section)

Castell Helen
Jumped (fell?) from half height ledge. Dave Williams. 1976

Blacksmiths zawn
Wowan's Wocket pitch 1. (Reverse ramp off left to get back down or jump)
The Light That Didn't Shine - a classic. Finish up Green LIght and / or out left.

Smurf Zawn - Note a submerged boulder below Nelson Mandela has lead to one climber badly hurting himself - should be ok at high tide?
Free Nelson Mandela Now
King of the Swingers plus Crispin / Twid variations all been soloed

Rhoscolyn Beach
On the left hand side of the bay it is possible to do a number of easy DWS's up to V1(nothing that hard) which are pretty much boulder problems above the sea. The best problems we found were outside the bay with probably the best features being an over hanging wall about ten meters high which at high tide would be perfectly safe and a nice prow feature in a subsequant bay which goes at about V1/V2, at high tide it would also be possible to attempt some larger walls closer to 20M. Though these are not too hard all being just overhanging with plenty of large holds. Worth a day of exploration on a canoe for the low grade climber.
Ewan and Fraser Russell 5/2008


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