{"id":496,"date":"2010-01-12T19:10:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2010-11-02T21:29:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T21:29:31","slug":"major-new-route-on-the-fhidhleir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Major New Route on the Fhidhleir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_495\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/08Jan2010_Sgurr-an-Fhidhleir001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"size-full wp-image-495\" title=\"08Jan2010_Sgurr an Fhidhleir001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/08Jan2010_Sgurr-an-Fhidhleir001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/08Jan2010_Sgurr-an-Fhidhleir001.jpg 525w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/08Jan2010_Sgurr-an-Fhidhleir001-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guy Robertson on the first ascent of Bow Direct (VII,8), Sgurr an Fhidhleir. (Photo Pete MacPherson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Friday January 8 Martin Moran, Pete Macpherson and Guy Robertson made a big addition to the Fhidhleir. Bow Direct (VII,8) takes the full length of the huge arching right-facing corner that dominates the 300m-high south-east face. The wall was first climbed in winter in December 2000 by Chris Cartwright and I with our ascent of Magic Bow Wall (VIII,8), which traverses rightwards out of the corner at half-height to climb a steep series of corners near Fidelio.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, Pete and Guy started up the lower pitches of Magic Bow Wall and continued directly up the groove above.and completed their new route in a remarkably fast time. I&#8217;d like to think that Bow Direct is a less demanding expedition than Magic Bow Wall, which has its hardest climbing after the traverse, but I suspect that Martin, Pete and Guy are just far better climbers than Chris and I were ten years ago!<\/p>\n<p>Without question, Bow Direct is a very significant new route and takes the outstanding line on this huge wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday January 8 Martin Moran, Pete Macpherson and Guy Robertson made a big addition to the Fhidhleir. Bow Direct (VII,8) takes the full length of the huge arching right-facing corner that dominates the 300m-high south-east face. The wall was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=496\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5,45,6,92],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-guy-robertson","tag-martin-moran","tag-pete-macpherson","tag-sgurr-an-fhidhleir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}