{"id":1121,"date":"2010-12-27T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T10:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2010-12-27T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T10:58:03","slug":"exciting-times-on-great-central-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Times on Great Central Groove"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1122\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/22Dec2010_The-Brack003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1122\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1122\" title=\"22Dec2010_The Brack003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/22Dec2010_The-Brack003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/22Dec2010_The-Brack003.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/22Dec2010_The-Brack003-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Stratchclyde police helicopter approaches The Brack with Beinn Ime and The Cobbler in the background. Headtorches and camera flashes on the approach were mistaken for distress flares and a rescue was mounted whilst the two Petes (Benson and Macpherson) were climbing a new finish to Great Central Groove on The Brack.  (Photo Pete Macpherson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pete Macpherson and Pete Benson added a challenging new finish to the classic Great Central Groove on The Brack on December 22, but they had an exciting incident whilst climbing the route. Pete M takes up the story<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We went down to The Brack on the 22nd to try and repeat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=843\">Mammoth<\/a> but it was black, so we ended up doing a harder last two pitches to Great  Central Groove. Anyway, as we walked up in\u00a0the dark we stopped to take pics\u00a0on the  way.\u00a0When we got to the crag, Pete\u00a0illuminated the cliff with his super duper  bright head torch. We then noticed a car at the road flashing us but didn&#8217;t think  anything of it. I headed up the first pitch to the sound of a helicopter in the  background, and when Pete arrived at the belay he got a phone call from his wife. It  turned out someone saw our headtorches and mistook them for distress flares and  phoned the police which sparked a helicopter and the MRT team to be scrambled. They  traced Pete&#8217;s car and rang his partner who phoned Pete to alert us. Pete then phoned  the Police and let them know we were OK. Good to see there are people watching out  for us!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>The pair climbed the first two pitches of Great Central Groove on well frozen turf  and streaks of ice. From the big turf ledge, Pete M climbed the steep left crack  rather than continuing up the corner, and then made a very thin traverse to top of the corner  and a block belay. Pete B then headed up overhung ramp-groove,  partly on thin ice, to a turfy exciting exit. &#8220;It was a great crux\u00a0lead,&#8221; Pete M told me! &#8220;And overall, it made for a lovely  route at about VII,9.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Macpherson and Pete Benson added a challenging new finish to the classic Great Central Groove on The Brack on December 22, but they had an exciting incident whilst climbing the route. Pete M takes up the story &#8220;We went &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=1121\">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":[22,6,132],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-pete-benson","tag-pete-macpherson","tag-the-brack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","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=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}