{"id":814,"date":"2010-12-06T22:03:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T22:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2012-01-04T21:24:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T21:24:15","slug":"new-routes-on-the-douglas-boulder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"New Routes on The Douglas Boulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_815\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/29Nov2010_Ben-Nevis0023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-815\" class=\"size-full wp-image-815\" title=\"29Nov2010_Ben Nevis002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/29Nov2010_Ben-Nevis0023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/29Nov2010_Ben-Nevis0023.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/29Nov2010_Ben-Nevis0023-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Bullock&#39;s new lines on the front face of The Douglas Boulder, Ben Nevis. Red - Nutless (VI,7) first winter ascent, Blue - Rutless (VII,8) a direct finish to Gutless (Yellow) and Green - Feckless (VI,7). (Topo Nick Bullock)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nick Bullock has been busy on the front face of The Douglas Boulder on Ben Nevis. With Matt Helliker he made the first winter ascent of Nutless with a new Direct Start at VI,7 and the pair also added Rutless (VII,8), a direct finish to Gutless taking a 20-metre overhanging crack and corner.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday November 27, Nick teamed up with Pete Benson and climbed the first pitch of Gutless on ice, then broke out right up a shallow groove (ice) and then straight up icy grooves to the ledge of North-West Face Route to finish directly up an excellent steep groove on the right of the very steep wall. The result was Feckless (VI,7).<\/p>\n<p>A modern mixed re-appraisal of The Douglas Boulder in winter is well overdue, and as Pete told me, &#8220;it&#8217;s actually rather a big crag!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Bullock has been busy on the front face of The Douglas Boulder on Ben Nevis. With Matt Helliker he made the first winter ascent of Nutless with a new Direct Start at VI,7 and the pair also added Rutless &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=814\">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":[7,276],"tags":[8,181,21,22],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","category-topos","tag-ben-nevis","tag-matt-helliker","tag-nick-bullock","tag-pete-benson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","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=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}