{"id":898,"date":"2010-12-09T18:54:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T18:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2010-12-09T22:47:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T22:47:38","slug":"the-cuillins-black-cleft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"The Cuillin&#8217;s Black Cleft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_908\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/02Dec2010_Sgurr-Mhic-Choinnich0022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-908\" class=\"size-full wp-image-908\" title=\"02Dec2010_Sgurr Mhic Choinnich002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/02Dec2010_Sgurr-Mhic-Choinnich0022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/02Dec2010_Sgurr-Mhic-Choinnich0022.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/02Dec2010_Sgurr-Mhic-Choinnich0022-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Boswell on the first winter ascent of  the Black Cleft (VI,7) on Sgurr Mhic Choinnich on Skye. Guy Robertson commented afterwards that this traditional looking climb gave a tremendous outing and was quite technical in places. (Photo Greg Boswell Collection)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last Thursday\u00a0(December 2), Guy Robertson and Greg Boswell made the first winter ascent of the Black Cleft on Skye. This well known winter objective lies on Bealach Buttress on Sgurr Mhic Choinnich in the Cuillin and gave a three star outing at solid VI,7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe felt very privileged to climb such a fine route in such an outstanding coire, and so early in the season as well,\u201d Guy told me.\u00a0\u201cDescending from Coire Lagan in the last moments of daylight, the sun setting over a snow-clad Isle of Rum, with a storm brewing over the Outer Hebrides, forming an angry backdrop to the cobalt sea, was amazing!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday\u00a0(December 2), Guy Robertson and Greg Boswell made the first winter ascent of the Black Cleft on Skye. This well known winter objective lies on Bealach Buttress on Sgurr Mhic Choinnich in the Cuillin and gave a three star &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=898\">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":[16,5,135],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-greg-boswell","tag-guy-robertson","tag-sgurr-mhic-choinnich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}