{"id":2237,"date":"2011-12-07T21:11:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2011-12-07T21:18:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:18:57","slug":"all-alone-on-aonach-dubh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=2237","title":{"rendered":"All Alone on Aonach Dubh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Looking up Number 3 Gully Rib (II\/III) on the West Face of Aonach Dubh. The route follows the snowed up rock on the left side of the picture with the deep Number 3 Gully on the right. Climbing solo, James Roddie made the first winter ascent of this natural winter line on December 5. (Photo James Roddie)<\/p><\/div>\n

James Roddie has been exploring the crags of Glen Coe for a couple of years now, often as bold solo outings. His latest adventure was on Monday December 5, when he made the first ascent of Number 3 Gully Rib (II\/III) on the West Face of Aonach Dubh. James takes up the story:<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the westerly winds, I knew that a buttress route on a West face would be likely to give good climbing and frozen turf, so I headed up underneath B Buttress on the West face of Aonach Dubh. It’s a rarely visited area of Glencoe in the winter, void of crampon scratches and still with potential for more new routes. I’d been up a summer route here before a few times but I couldn’t find any record of it as a winter route so I thought it well worthwhile a look.<\/p>\n

At the base of The Pinnacle Face you break right at the level of the Middle Ledge onto a rib running up the left hand side of Number 3 Gully. There was plenty of fresh powder around but lots of frozen turf. I took the rib as directly as possible, with a few awkward moves on the steeper sections as the rock type doesn’t give many cracks or great hooks. I climbed a final narrow chimney and topped out to the Upper Rake just as very heavy snow started to fall. The traverse across the top of Number 2 Gully, to escape the face, was quite spicy on soft snow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Roddie has been exploring the crags of Glen Coe for a couple of years now, often as bold solo outings. His latest adventure was on Monday December 5, when he made the first ascent of Number 3 Gully Rib … Continue reading →<\/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":[60,257],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-glen-coe","tag-james-roddie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","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=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}