{"id":503,"date":"2009-12-29T20:01:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2010-11-02T21:32:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T21:32:02","slug":"stac-pollaidhs-ghost-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"Stac Pollaidh&#8217;s Ghost Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_502\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/08Feb2009_Sgurr-an-Fhidlhleir077.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-502\" class=\"size-full wp-image-502\" title=\"08Feb2009_Sgurr an Fhidlhleir077\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/08Feb2009_Sgurr-an-Fhidlhleir077.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/08Feb2009_Sgurr-an-Fhidlhleir077.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/08Feb2009_Sgurr-an-Fhidlhleir077-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stac Pollaidh from Sgurr an Fhidhleir. The Ghost Road (VII,5) soloed by Barry Middleton, takes a line up the far side of the West Buttress directly below the summit. (Photo Simon Richardson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Christmas Eve, Barry Middleton made the first winter ascent of The Ghost Road (VII,5) on the West Buttress of Stac Pollaidh. Barry initially thought he was climbing the Grade III Polly Fume, but unable to find any protection he became committed on this summer HVS and kept on going!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Christmas Eve, Barry Middleton made the first winter ascent of The Ghost Road (VII,5) on the West Buttress of Stac Pollaidh. Barry initially thought he was climbing the Grade III Polly Fume, but unable to find any protection he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=503\">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":[93,94],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-barry-middleton","tag-stac-pollaidh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}