{"id":4785,"date":"2014-12-12T18:04:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T18:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2014-12-12T18:04:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T18:04:39","slug":"punching-numbers-on-creagan-cha-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=4785","title":{"rendered":"Punching Numbers on Creagan Cha-no"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4786\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4786\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4786\" alt=\"Ally Swinton looking up the line of Punching Numbers (VI,7) on Creagan Cha-no. Mac\u2019s Crack (VI,7) is the obvious deep crack on the left. (Photo Gav Swinton)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/05Dec2014_Cairngorm001.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/05Dec2014_Cairngorm001.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/05Dec2014_Cairngorm001-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ally Swinton looking up the line of Punching Numbers (VI,7) on Creagan Cha-no. Mac\u2019s Crack (VI,7) is the prominent deep cleft on the left. (Photo Gav Swinton)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ally Swinton visited Creagan Cha-no with his Dad, Gav Swinton, on December 5. Walking under the cliff, Ally noticed that the steep intermittent crack-line to the right of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=2428\">Mac\u2019s Crack<\/a> in the Tower Area wasn\u2019t on his topo, so he decided to give it a go. Ally started up the obvious groove (common with Mathers-Mellergard) before continuing up the corner and roof line with a wild final sequence. It had \u201cgood gear and pumpy moves\u201d, Ally told me. &#8220;The route really packed a punch. I found an amazing Stein pull in the crux section that gave the route some real character.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ally and Gav called their new line Punching Numbers. The Mac\u2019s Crack wall is steeper than it looks from below and I\u2019m sure this new addition fully deserves its VI,7 rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ally Swinton visited Creagan Cha-no with his Dad, Gav Swinton, on December 5. Walking under the cliff, Ally noticed that the steep intermittent crack-line to the right of Mac\u2019s Crack in the Tower Area wasn\u2019t on his topo, so he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=4785\">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":[516,250,517],"class_list":["post-4785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-ally-swinton","tag-creagan-cha-no","tag-gav-swinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785","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=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}