{"id":1044,"date":"2010-12-21T21:21:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2010-12-21T22:35:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T22:35:33","slug":"1044","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Going Caving in Glen Shiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1045\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/21Dec2010_Druin-Shionnach001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1045\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1045\" title=\"21Dec2010_Druin Shionnach001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/21Dec2010_Druin-Shionnach001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/21Dec2010_Druin-Shionnach001.jpg 525w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/21Dec2010_Druin-Shionnach001-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Preston on the first ascent of Macavity (V,6), Druim Shionnach in Glen Shiel. This steep three-pitch route takes the fault line leading past the left side of  the bigger right cave of last month&#39;s new route Lemon Groove. (Photo Andy Nisbet)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Andy Nisbet visited Duim Shionnach in Glen Shiel today (December 21) with Jonathan Preston, and added Macavity (V,6), a companion route to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=732\">Lemon Groove<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The route starts as for <em>Lemon Groove <\/em>to the big  cave, then climbs turf up the left wall of the cave to gain a smaller cave above. A move up left, then pull out right, gains the chimney above the cave which leads to the final section of Lemon Groove.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another slightly  improbable line which had better cracks than expected,&#8221; Andy explained. &#8220;It is Glen Shiel&#8217;s answer to  the caves of the Mediterranean!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Nisbet visited Duim Shionnach in Glen Shiel today (December 21) with Jonathan Preston, and added Macavity (V,6), a companion route to Lemon Groove. The route starts as for Lemon Groove to the big cave, then climbs turf up the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=1044\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,115,124],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-andy-nisbet","tag-glen-shiel","tag-jonathan-preston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}