{"id":274,"date":"2010-02-19T22:14:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2010-11-02T21:25:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T21:25:21","slug":"super-rat-ix9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Super Rat (IX,9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_275\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/25Jan2010_Creag-an-Dubh-Loch001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-275\" class=\"size-full wp-image-275\" title=\"25Jan2010_Creag an Dubh Loch001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/25Jan2010_Creag-an-Dubh-Loch001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/25Jan2010_Creag-an-Dubh-Loch001.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/25Jan2010_Creag-an-Dubh-Loch001-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete MacPherson approaching the King Rat roof on an earlier attempt on Super Rat. The route was finally climbed on the third visit. (Photo Guy Robertson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Guy Robertson and Pete MacPherson succeeded on their long-standing project on Creag an Dubh Loch yesterday (February 18).<\/p>\n<p>Super Rat (IX,9) is based on the summer E1 classic King Rat, but takes a more direct line following the crack system throughout. When I first heard about the project I was a little skeptical, because the rounded cracks of Central Gully Wall are not natural winter terrain. However the Super Rat ascent relied on a thin covering of ice and was an archtypical Scottish winter climb relying on precise conditions to make it climbable.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Guy and Pete for the most important new route of the season so far, and the first winter trip up the awe-inspiring Central Gully Wall for nearly 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Hewitt was also successful on his rematch with Mousetrap yesterday, recording the third winter ascent with Tania Noakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Robertson and Pete MacPherson succeeded on their long-standing project on Creag an Dubh Loch yesterday (February 18). Super Rat (IX,9) is based on the summer E1 classic King Rat, but takes a more direct line following the crack system &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[39,5,6,37,41],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-creag-an-dubh-loch","tag-guy-robertson","tag-pete-macpherson","tag-ross-hewitt","tag-tania-noakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}