Sabtu, 30 Januari 2010

Looking at SC Gully, Climbing NC Gully

This is SC Gully (III ***). I hope to do this finally next week. There are 3 climbing teams (of 2) climbing it here (you can see 5 of them). There was a team on the top snow slope pitch too - but this is not visible in this photo. On the right hand side, the guys in blue and yellow jackets are on Central Grooves (VII 7 ****).
Can you see the 4 climbers in this photo climbing Raeburn's Route (IV 4 ***), top climber in yellow jacket.

Photo taken from NC Gully. Climbers belayed on Raeburn's Route. Stunning scenery for first half of the day.

I'm working this weekend on a beginners climbers course. I took my 2 climbers into Stob Coire Nan Lochan. I wanted to check out SC Gully that I quickly got to know last March. It's climbable at the moment and had queues on it for the entire morning. I hope to climb it finally this week, can't wait. . .
We headed further over to NC Gully, also with queues, but we timed our approach to take a good position and have no queueing. The climb was in good form. Even though they're beginners they're dead keen, so I had to spice it up with a steep left finish. I think they'll be bored of this grade tomorrow, and they want to learn about ice screws so we'll be looking for ice excitement. Isn't work fun...

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