{"id":4047,"date":"2013-12-02T22:27:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2013-12-02T22:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T22:28:19","slug":"new-lochain-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=4047","title":{"rendered":"New Lochain Route"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lee Harrison moving up to the foot of Snuffleupagus (IV,6) in Coire an Lochain in the Northern Corries. The route follows the line of corners directly above Lee\u2019s head. (Photo Michael Barnard)<\/p><\/div>\n

On November 23, Michael Barnard and Lee Harrison climbed Snuffleupagus (IV,6), a new two-pitch line in Coire an Lochain on the very left side of No.4 Buttress. \u201cIt starts up grooves and corners parallel to and left of Oesophagus,\u201d Michael told me. \u201cIt then moves leftwards to finish near a route called Sarcophagus which I chanced upon a couple of years ago. That had been done on the solo so the bleak name seemed justified, but this time we decided to go for something more upbeat!\u201d<\/p>\n

Given the active and constructive recent discussion about the recording of routes on popular cliffs<\/a>, I asked Andy Nisbet\u2019s opinion on Lee and Michael’s route. \u201cSnuffleupagus is different,\u201d Andy explained. \u201cI\u2019m guessing a bit without going there, but I suspect it wouldn\u2019t have been considered as a route until recently. But nowadays folk treat cliffs like crags \u2013 every feature can be climbed and claimed as a new route. Creagan Cha-no is like that and folk are liking it. So perhaps the old school like me should just go with the times\u2026 it will go in the Journal, although hopefully I\u2019ll get a chance to look at it first!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 23, Michael Barnard and Lee Harrison climbed Snuffleupagus (IV,6), a new two-pitch line in Coire an Lochain on the very left side of No.4 Buttress. \u201cIt starts up grooves and corners parallel to and left of Oesophagus,\u201d Michael … 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":[186,7],"tags":[43,445,221],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-route","tag-andy-nisbet","tag-lee-harrison","tag-michael-barnard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","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=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}