{"id":3303,"date":"2013-01-16T21:44:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T21:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2013-01-16T21:44:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T21:44:35","slug":"shooting-the-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=3303","title":{"rendered":"Shooting the Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greg Boswell seconding the big ar\u00eate on pitch two during the first winter ascent of Shoot the Breeze (IX,8) on Beinn Eighe\u2019s West Central Wall. (Photo Guy Robertson)<\/p><\/div>\n

Guy Robertson and Greg Boswell made the first winter ascent of Shoot the Breeze on Beinn Eighe\u2019s West Central Wall yesterday (January 15). This spectacular summer E2 was first climbed by Andy Nisbet and Gill Ollerhead in May 1992. The SMC Northern Highlands South guidebook describes it as \u2018a stunning route, one of the wildest in Scotland, with well protected crux and a Troll Wall ambiance.\u2019 A perfect objective then, for the all-conquering Robertson-Boswell team!<\/p>\n

\u201dIt was a truly outstanding route climbed in probably the best mixed conditions I\u2019ve encountered up there,\u201c Guy told me.\u00a0 \u201cAs there\u2019s not much in the way of turf on this route, and very little ice, it really needs to be properly plastered to justify a winter attempt.\u00a0 The whole wall was white from top to bottom, which I\u2019ve never seen before, so all the thundering rain on the tent the night before was exactly what was needed.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure about the grade \u2013 possibly a soft IX,8 \u2013 it\u2019s a tricky one for sure.\u00a0 Pretty much every move was Tech 8 after the first few metres, and the protection was generally superb.\u00a0 However, there was a very precarious section above a poor Pecker at about 20m on pitch 2 where a fall would probably have broken something, so maybe IX is right.\u00a0 Who cares \u2013 it\u2019s the quality that counts and this one is reeking of it!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guy Robertson and Greg Boswell made the first winter ascent of Shoot the Breeze on Beinn Eighe\u2019s West Central Wall yesterday (January 15). This spectacular summer E2 was first climbed by Andy Nisbet and Gill Ollerhead in May 1992. 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],"tags":[23,16,5],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-beinn-eighe","tag-greg-boswell","tag-guy-robertson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","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=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3308,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}