In reply to Pursued by a bear:
>On the other hand, when we did go back to do it, I found the descent down the grass gully to the notch almost as unnerving.
Yes, well tip one would be: sort out the tides properly, go there at low tide, and take a long enough rope (and not the climbing rope) that you can abseil the whole way down the slab to the zawn bed.
Tip two would be, if you’ve never climbed at Gogarth before, be mentally prepared for it to look ****ing horrifying and not to get daunted. I don’t know why, but no matter how many sea cliffs you may have climbed at before, Gogarth sometimes has that effect on a first visit.
The climbing’s not hard and the route-finding isn’t either really; nothing to trouble an experienced climber. But you do need a positive attitude; as PBaB indicates, the most likely place to fail is at the top of the crag.
jcm