{"id":6331,"date":"2017-01-26T11:19:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T11:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2017-01-26T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T11:35:52","slug":"crazy-eyes-second-ascent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=6331","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Eyes – Second Ascent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Murdoch Jamieson on the crux section of Crazy Eyes (VIII,9) on Beinn Eighe during the second ascent. This spectacular route takes the roofed corner right of Sundance on the Far East Wall. (Photo Andy Inglis)<\/p><\/div>\n

A significant ascent on January 14 (one of the finest winter climbing days of the season so far) was the first repeat of Crazy Eyes (VIII,9) on the Far East Wall of Beinn Eighe by Murdoch Jamieson and Andy Inglis.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrazy Eyes is a line\u00a0that I’ve wanted to get on ever since\u00a0the BMC Winter Meet in 2014,\u201d Andy told me. \u201cI remember a stunning morning three years ago when myself and partner Piotr Sulowski\u00a0craned our necks back to take in this wild (and what would, in years gone by, been called ‘futuristic’)\u00a0line with Will Sim and Olov Isaksson. We didn’t think it had been done so it was an easy decision for Will and Olov to jump on it! As it turned out they had a great time and gave the route three stars! Will raving about it afterwards should have given me a clue as\u00a0to how hard it might be…!<\/p>\n

For Murdo and I it was a miracle we even got on the route last Saturday, after Murdo ended up hip-deep in a bog on the walk-in, with the only saving grace being a meandering track (I\u00a0wonder if they were drunk?!)\u00a0through the deep snow\u00a0left by keener climbers than us earlier that morning!\u00a0The route itself was excellent with lots of variety, turf, ice, a squeeze chimney,\u00a0steep cracks and a technical roof! Murdo even made it look like he had to try at one point, and I must have imagined it when I thought he shouted down\u00a0he was pumped!<\/p>\n

A very memorable and at times goey route, and a splendid\u00a0sandbag at the originally suggested grade of VII,9. Chapeau Olov and Will!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A significant ascent on January 14 (one of the finest winter climbing days of the season so far) was the first repeat of Crazy Eyes (VIII,9) on the Far East Wall of Beinn Eighe by Murdoch Jamieson and Andy Inglis. … 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":[10],"tags":[109,23,492],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repeat","tag-andy-inglis","tag-beinn-eighe","tag-murdoch-jamieson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","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=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6335,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}