In reply to fmck:
Aye, I remember meeting you the weekend we did Gully 5 Fraser, and I recall you were on Cir Mhor the day we did The Ozone Layer too.
We were up looking at the Nuis Face route a year or so before that, but it
got warm and sunny, and the route fell down before our eyes..... Such is life. Never got back there - moved off to New Zealand instead.
For what it's worth, the guys who did the second first ascent of Pinnacle Ridge thought it one of the better routes of that standard that they'd done, and they'd done a lot! You weren't the only one who found that someone else had been there first. Me too !!!
There are still a fair few lines to do over there, it's just a matter of being able to get there when the weather plays ball. We're planning on being back in Scotland at the back end of next Winter, and it would be great to get back onto something on Arran again, but, I'll probably bring the warmest Winter on record with me.