{"id":3380,"date":"2013-01-27T20:05:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T20:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2013-01-27T20:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T20:05:41","slug":"slanting-gully-complete-ascent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=3380","title":{"rendered":"Slanting Gully &#8211; Complete Ascent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3381\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?attachment_id=3381\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3381\" alt=\"Doug Hawthorn pulling through the final steep crack of Slanting Gully on the North Face of Sgurr a\u2019Mhadaidh on Skye. (Photo Iain Small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/24Jan2013_Sgurr-aMhadaidh002.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/24Jan2013_Sgurr-aMhadaidh002.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/24Jan2013_Sgurr-aMhadaidh002-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Hawthorn pulling through the final steep crack of Slanting Gully (VI,7) on the North Face of Sgurr a\u2019Mhadaidh on Skye. (Photo Iain Small)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On January 24, Iain Small visited Skye with Doug Hawthorn and made the first complete winter ascent of Slanting Gully on Sgurr a\u2019Mhadaidh\u2019s North Face. The route passes over Foxes Rake at half height and had previously been climbed to this point by Mike Lates and T.Hanly in December 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe crossed the Rake and finished up the top half in three long pitches,\u201d Iain told me. \u201cIt gave a good mixed, and even icy fault, with a steep crack for Doug on the final pitch. The summer description has the line weaving around the fault line but we tackled it direct &#8211; a better option in winter! On the day it seemed about VI,7 with some helpful consolidated snow. We were surprised to see plenty of footprints around the Coire, but what a great choice. Everyone must have felt charmed finding those conditions; it&#8217;s a wholly different experience to find such great conditions on Skye compared with the more established areas. Twice in one week [for me] was a privilege!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 24, Iain Small visited Skye with Doug Hawthorn and made the first complete winter ascent of Slanting Gully on Sgurr a\u2019Mhadaidh\u2019s North Face. The route passes over Foxes Rake at half height and had previously been climbed to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=3380\">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":[36,13,55,249],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-doug-hawthorn","tag-iain-small","tag-skye","tag-the-cuillin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","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=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}