{"id":2555,"date":"2012-01-18T19:45:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T19:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2012-01-18T19:45:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T19:45:25","slug":"the-gathering-second-ascent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=2555","title":{"rendered":"The Gathering – Second Ascent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Will Sim on a possible new VI,6 on the right wall of Y-Gully Left Branch in Coire an Lochain on Cairn Gorm. During a weekend of fine weather but very lean conditions, it was the high and secluded Y-Gully area that held on to the most wintry conditions in the Northern Corries. (Photo Greg Boswell)<\/p><\/div>\n

Will Sim and Greg Boswell enjoyed three productive days in Coire an Lochain in the Northern Corries last week. On Friday January 13, they warmed up with Daddy Longlegs (VIII,9\u00a0 with Adam Booth before making the second ascent of The Gathering<\/a> (VIII,9) the following day. This exceptionally steep route on the pinnacle in the fork of Y-Gully was first climbed by Guy Robertson and Pete Macpherson at the end of February last season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe route was awesome,\u201d Greg told me. \u201cIt was home to some very steep but positive climbing with two brilliant pitches. Not too hard for the grade, but deffo VIII,9, and much harder than Pic’n Mix.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday (January 15) the pair climbed a route on the right wall of Y-Gully Left Branch. It started with a technical cracked wall leading into a hanging off-width chimney, before moving onto a turfy wall and finishing up right to the top.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe weren’t sure if this was a new line or not,\u201d Greg explained, \u201cbut the climbing was super enjoyable, and maybe one of the best routes of that grade that I\u2019ve climbed. Will led the whole thing and we thought it was about VI,6.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will Sim and Greg Boswell enjoyed three productive days in Coire an Lochain in the Northern Corries last week. On Friday January 13, they warmed up with Daddy Longlegs (VIII,9\u00a0 with Adam Booth before making the second ascent of The … 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":[7,10],"tags":[282,16,25,167],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","category-repeat","tag-adam-booth","tag-greg-boswell","tag-northern-corries","tag-will-sim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","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=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}