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Looks like the Dubh Loch is getting a bit of attention - http://nickbullock-climber.co.uk/

Not sure whereabouts on the crag these routes are though the shot looking right at Iain Small has similarities to the lower section of King Rat.

ALC

In reply to a lakeland climber:

Yep, I was surprised there is nothing about it on Scottish Winter yet. Looks super impressive and scary though all the route.

In reply to a lakeland climber:

They're all on Broad Terrace Wall in the vicinity of Culloden.

In reply to a lakeland climber:

All these new routes are on the right side of Broad Terrace wall. Having a nice view of teams Small and Hawthorn cruising quick second and third ascents of one of them today went a little way to make up for my own pathetic flounderings on a cruddy Grade II (conditions very variable!). The amount of ice on BTw is amazing - the area left of Sword of Damocles looks climbable by the brave almost anywhere.

In reply to Robert Durran:

Looked quite wet, water running under the ice? Or was that a trick of the camera?

In reply to jon:


I'm speaking from a point of relative ignorance but surely that stuff is not melting, I can't imagine a thin layer of ice like that would ever stay attached enough to climb with water running under it.

In reply to a lakeland climber:

New routes were also climbed on the area left of Sword of Damocles on saturday.

J

In reply to TobyA:


There is now!

In reply to Robert Durran:

I expect you to be up there mixing it with young guns (and old masters actually looking at the names), Robert! Not floundering in cruddy gullies - leave that to the punters such as myself.

In reply to a lakeland climber:

Looks like it was the place to be this weekend:

http://www.scottishwinter.com/?p=4215

In reply to Neil Adams:

Climbers are looking more and more like skiers, who are copying snowboarders (in a size or two smaller) of course!!

In reply to JCurrie:

Wow! That looks pretty nuts. From the looking up pics on Nick's blog it's hard to see the steepness - but you can see it there! Great picture.

In reply to Robert Durran:


South-East Buttress? I've done this under powder with the first pitch feeling more like IV,4!

In reply to Michael Gordon:


Started up a grade IV, but conditions on the steep bit were horrible crud, so I climbed a little mixed step to gain a steep snow slope leading onto S.E Buttress. This turned out to be an "unjustifiable" steep slope of foot deep sugary snow overlying spongy heather. I reversed to the belay and we abbed off. Total humiliation.

In reply to JCurrie:

Another amazing shot on Scottish Winter - http://www.scottishwinter.com/?p=4284

ALC