{"id":6519,"date":"2017-12-06T19:44:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T19:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2017-12-06T19:44:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T19:44:52","slug":"mauds-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=6519","title":{"rendered":"Maud&#8217;s Groove"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6520\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6520\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6520\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/01Jan2009_Glen-Doll004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/01Jan2009_Glen-Doll004.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/01Jan2009_Glen-Doll004-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Crofton enjoying steep mixed climbing in the chimney pitch of Maud\u2019s Groove (IV,5). This new climb is situated in Glen Doll, the southerly subsidiary glen at the end of Glen Clova. (Photo Pete Benson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On November 30, Adrian Crofton and Pete Benson made an enterprising visit to Craig Maud at the head of Glen Doll in South-Eastern Cairngorms. Their exploration was rewarded with the first ascent of Maud\u2019s Groove (IV,5), a steep groove-line high up on the south flank of Pinnacle Buttress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPete and I were keen to find somewhere high enough to be frozen, but not so high that it would be buried,\u201d Adrian Crofton told me. \u201cWe also wanted somewhere sheltered from the bitter northerly wind, and not too far from Aberdeen! As it happened we had been out for\u00a0a walk the week before with Ken Davies and had scrambled up the gully at Craig Maud where we spotted some nice looking winter-only lines. The most obvious was a left-slanting chimney-groove.<\/p>\n<p>The venue and line fitted the bill perfectly for last Thursday&#8217;s forecast and we had a fun day on this wee route of two pitches followed by a scramble to the summit of the crag, 120m in total. We were keen on an easy romp, but this gave a more testing climbing than expected. Be warned it is steeper than it looks from below!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 30, Adrian Crofton and Pete Benson made an enterprising visit to Craig Maud at the head of Glen Doll in South-Eastern Cairngorms. Their exploration was rewarded with the first ascent of Maud\u2019s Groove (IV,5), a steep groove-line high &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=6519\">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":[507,310,22],"class_list":["post-6519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-adrian-crofton","tag-glen-clova","tag-pete-benson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519","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=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6535,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions\/6535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}