{"id":3980,"date":"2013-04-25T20:39:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2013-04-25T20:39:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:39:58","slug":"highway-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=3980","title":{"rendered":"Highway to Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ian Magill on the first ascent of Highway to Hell (III,5) on the north side of the North-East Ridge of Beinn Ime. This is the highest cliff in Arrochar and provides worthwhile climbing when conditions are lean. (Photo Andrew Fraser)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWhile on the subject of high, north facing and reliable crags in unreliable areas<\/a>,\u201d Andrew Fraser recalls, \u201cwe have been doing some routes on Arrochar’s highest crag – the north face of the North-East Ridge of Beinn Ime. Again this only had one route, being The Lost Highway (III). There are two crags, both of 100m. The left one has a ramp leading rightwards across it. This gave the excellent The Darkness Beckons (IV,4) with a surprising first pitch and a sting in the tail to Ian Magill and myself in February 2012. The vertical fault at the right end of the cliff gave Lane Restrictions (III,4) to Ian, James Dalgliesh and myself on April 7.<\/p>\n

On the right-hand crag, the fault to the right of Lost Highway gave two pitches of pleasant Grade II climbing to Ian and myself on 28 November 2012, before Ian spoiled matters with a desperate tech 5 finish – Highway to Hell (III,5). At the far right end of the crag, Ian, James and myself did Innominate Gully 55m (I), in heavily banked conditions, on April 7. As the highest crag in Arrochar, and north facing as well, this is another crag, which has proved reliable in thin conditions.\u201dOn the right-hand crag, the fault to the right of Lost Highway gave two pitches of pleasant Grade II climbing to Ian and myself on 28 November 2012, before Ian spoiled matters with a desperate tech 5 finish – Highway to Hell (III,5). At the far right end of the crag, Ian, James and myself did Innominate Gully 55m (I), in heavily banked conditions, on April 7. As the highest crag in Arrochar, and north facing as well, this is another crag, which has proved reliable in thin conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhile on the subject of high, north facing and reliable crags in unreliable areas,\u201d Andrew Fraser recalls, \u201cwe have been doing some routes on Arrochar’s highest crag – the north face of the North-East Ridge of Beinn Ime. Again this … 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":[204,162,205,438],"class_list":["post-3980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-andrew-fraser","tag-beinn-ime","tag-ian-magill","tag-james-dalgeish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980","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=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3989,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions\/3989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}