{"id":3043,"date":"2012-11-07T22:52:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T22:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2012-11-07T22:53:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T22:53:40","slug":"candy-shop-in-coire-an-lochain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=3043","title":{"rendered":"Candy Shop in Coire an Lochain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3044\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/05Oct2012_Cairngorm001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3044\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3044\" title=\"05Oct2012_Cairngorm001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/05Oct2012_Cairngorm001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/05Oct2012_Cairngorm001.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/05Oct2012_Cairngorm001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Boswell on the first ascent of the Candy Shop (VII,9) in Coire an Lochain in the Northern Corries. The route follows the steep crack and stepped niche to right of The Gathering, which lies on the pinnacle in the fork of Y-Gully. (Photo Guy Robertson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Monday November 5, Greg Boswell and Guy Robertson climbed The Candy Shop (VII,9), a new two-pitch route taking the overhanging crack up the steep wall to the right of the crux pitch of The Gathering. \u201cIt was a pumpy little number, Greg told me, \u201cwith some awesome moves and worthwhile climbing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A full account appears on <a href=\"http:\/\/gregboswell.co.uk\/\">Greg\u2019s blog<\/a>, where it sounds that a few cobwebs still need to be blown away to get into full winter gear. Greg took an unexpected fall at the start of the crux pitch when his foot blew off its placement. More drama followed higher up the pitch when one of Greg\u2019s crampons fell off his boot and landed next door to Guy on the belay ledge.<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured that Mr Boswell will be firing on all cylinders soon. \u201cI just can&#8217;t wait to get on some of the other lines we have in mind for this winter,\u201d he enthused. \u201c It&#8217;s going to be a mental one!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday November 5, Greg Boswell and Guy Robertson climbed The Candy Shop (VII,9), a new two-pitch route taking the overhanging crack up the steep wall to the right of the crux pitch of The Gathering. \u201cIt was a pumpy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=3043\">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":[16,5,25],"class_list":["post-3043","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\/3043","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=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}