{"id":299,"date":"2010-04-27T22:32:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T21:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2010-11-02T21:16:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T21:16:48","slug":"hard-new-addition-to-lochain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Hard New Addition to Lochain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_300\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/08Apr2010_Cairngorm003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-300\" title=\"08Apr2010_Cairngorm003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/08Apr2010_Cairngorm003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/08Apr2010_Cairngorm003.jpg 525w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/08Apr2010_Cairngorm003-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guy Robertson contemplating the overhanging crack on the first ascent of The Snow Pimp (VIII,9), Coire an Lochain, Northern Corries. (Photo Greg Boswell)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Guy Robertson and Greg Boswell added a great late season addition to the Northern Corries last Friday (April 23).<\/p>\n<p>The Snow Pimp (VIII,9) takes the crack in the arete right of Hooker&#8217;s Corner then continues direct where Conundrum zig-zags about. The pair spotted the line whilst making the second ascent of Pic&#8217;n Mix last month, and reckoned the initial crack was probably harder than anything on Pic&#8217;n Mix, but more short-lived and very well protected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, the on-sight was not to be,&#8221; Guy told me. &#8220;I fell on the final hard move when my tool popped off when making a very long reach from a sloping ledge. Hopefully the route will be quickly repeated as it will come into condition with the first snows and a good cold snap next season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More photos and a topo on Greg&#8217;s site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregboswell.blogspot.com\/\">www.gregboswell.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Robertson and Greg Boswell added a great late season addition to the Northern Corries last Friday (April 23). The Snow Pimp (VIII,9) takes the crack in the arete right of Hooker&#8217;s Corner then continues direct where Conundrum zig-zags about. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=299\">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":[16,5,25],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-greg-boswell","tag-guy-robertson","tag-northern-corries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}