{"id":6837,"date":"2018-10-30T16:41:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=6837"},"modified":"2018-10-30T16:41:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:41:26","slug":"new-winter-season-kicks-off-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=6837","title":{"rendered":"New Winter Season Kicks Off In Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6838\" style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6838\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28Oct2018_Sgurr-Thearlaich001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28Oct2018_Sgurr-Thearlaich001.jpg 478w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28Oct2018_Sgurr-Thearlaich001-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephan Wrede on the first ascent of Tour de Force (VI,6) on Sgurr Thearlaich on Skye. Unusually heavy October snowfalls brought high snowed-up rock routes into winter condition at several venues across the Highlands. Stephan is from Canada and this was his first experience of mixed climbing. (Photo Mike Lates @skyeguides)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mike Lates and Stephan Wrede gave the new winter season a flying start on October 28 with a new route on The Cuillin. Tour de Force (VI,6) is situated on the Great Stone Shoot Face on Sgurr Thearlaich. The three-pitch route starts 10m right of BC Buttress and follows a series of corners and grooves guarded by brutal roof on the first pitch. The late October snows have brought several high and exposed cliffs into good winter climbing condition. The trick, as always in very early season, is to choose snowed-up rock routes rather than those that rely on frozen turf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like Christmas has come early,\u201d Mike told me. \u201cThe first two pitches had very steep cruxes that luckily yielded sinker placements (eventually). A total bonus was climbing in the sun on some properly good ice on the easier-angled third pitch. It was a busy day on the hill and some bold souls even appear to have been going for a fast Traverse wearing microspikes rather than crampons!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Lates and Stephan Wrede gave the new winter season a flying start on October 28 with a new route on The Cuillin. Tour de Force (VI,6) is situated on the Great Stone Shoot Face on Sgurr Thearlaich. The three-pitch &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=6837\">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":[83,339,697,249],"class_list":["post-6837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-mike-lates","tag-sgurr-thearlaich","tag-stephan-wrede","tag-the-cuillin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837","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=6837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6843,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions\/6843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}