{"id":6708,"date":"2018-02-13T19:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2018-02-13T19:54:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:54:02","slug":"cruachans-century-repeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=6708","title":{"rendered":"Cruachan’s Century Repeated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amy Goodill following the final pitch of Century (V,5) on Drochaid Ghlas on Ben Cruachan. The exciting perspective of this shot was achieved by using a drone. (Photo Erik Lang)<\/p><\/div>\n

Southern Highlands aficionado Stuart MacFarlane, together with Amy Goodill made the second ascent of Century (V,5) on Ben Cruachan on February 4. This three-pitch route is situated high up on the east face of Drochaid Ghlas. Being east facing it does not come as quickly into condition as the popular north-facing routes in Coire Chat but it does benefit from a slightly shorter walk.<\/p>\n

What sets Stuart and Amy\u2019s ascent apart however, is that a drone flown by Erik Lang filmed their climb. The edited video of the climb can be seen on<\/p>\n

<https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/wy8i951aik540jo\/ScottishWinterM.mp4<\/a>><\/p>\n

Drone footage provides a unique perspective and conveys the atmosphere of a place as well as giving a feeling as to what climbing on a high Scottish cliff is all about. So congratulations to Erik for creating such an interesting piece of footage and for Stuart and Amy for acting as willing models.<\/p>\n

Ben Cruachan has a special place in my heart and I have fond memories of exploring the cliffs of Drochaid Ghlas with Roger Everett and Chris Cartwright many years ago. I climbed Century with Chris in February 2000 and it was so named as it was my hundredth new winter route. I\u2019ve done a few more since of course, and it is always a delight when someone comes along and repeats one, even when the wait is 18 years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Southern Highlands aficionado Stuart MacFarlane, together with Amy Goodill made the second ascent of Century (V,5) on Ben Cruachan on February 4. This three-pitch route is situated high up on the east face of Drochaid Ghlas. Being east facing it … 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":[1],"tags":[687,345,688,120],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-goodill","tag-ben-cruachan","tag-erik-lang","tag-stuart-macfarlane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","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=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6713,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions\/6713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}