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Liathach Main Ridge Traverse (winter)*** II

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Ticklists: Britain's winter ridges, Scotland's Mountain Ridges by Dan Bailey.

Photo: Liathach Ridge © Lawrie Brand
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This climb is in 114 logbooks, and on 24 wishlists.

Stunning alpine day in great conditions. Moved together across the pinnacles
MrRiley - AltLd O/S - 27/Apr/13 with Dave Marshall

Fantastic day out!
david0811 - AltLd O/S - 27/Apr/13 with Dave Riley

Roger & Mike http://graniteandice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/liathach-winter-traverse.html
hwackerhage - 27/Apr/13

Hidden - 12/Apr/13

Neil Adams - 01/Apr/13 with Elizabeth

Lawrie Brand - Solo O/S - 31/Mar/13 with Sarah Laing

A fantastic alpine day, clear blue sky and very little wind.
John HW - 31/Mar/13 with Cath

piersnewton - Solo O/S - 31/Mar/13 with Olly Roberts

ollyroberts - Solo O/S - 31/Mar/13 with Piers Newton

Hidden - Lead O/S - 31/Mar/13

Hidden - Solo O/S - 30/Mar/13

Hidden - Solo - 30/Mar/13

whodat - 10/Mar/13 with Euan Strachan

Excellent condition, done with the turf ridge start on the left of the large gully. Actual ridge section only about grade one. Awesome day out!
Euan Strachan - Solo - 10/Mar/13 with Matt Dooner

An Alpine day
goatee - AltLd - 23/Feb/13 with Patrick Price

innes - Solo - 22/Feb/13 with Ruth

easers - Solo - 21/Feb/13

Brilliant weather and conditions upto the technical section, which had very limited snow. Brilliant long day out.
Zoomer - Solo - 20/Feb/13

First Winter Ridge. Fantastic day out.
i8kopites - 2nd - 20/Feb/13

Hidden - Solo O/S - 20/Feb/13

first half up to 1st munro in perfect neve. pinnicles were quite bare. superb weather
punj - Solo - 18/Feb/13 with Russell Shanks

Hidden - Solo - 12/Feb/13

Gman - Solo - 12/Feb/13 with Gareth Thomas

johnrich - Solo - 20/Jan/13

Hidden - 12/Jan/13

radioshed - Solo - 12/Jan/13 with dave s

Ross Young - Solo O/S - 12/Jan/13 with Marnoch

David Stevens - Solo - 12/Jan/13 with Matt Craig

Very little snow, some rime on the highest peaks, more like a summers day
pwb1981 - Solo - 10/Jan/13

Hidden - 30/Dec/12

Andy Moles - Solo - 02/Dec/12 with Ferdia

mctinkno - Solo - 02/Dec/12 with Andy

Early season.Powder snow,no verglas and no neve. Perfect weather conditions.Fantastic ridge traverse.
captain_reindeer - 02/Dec/12 with Alastair Grantham

A traverse in winter with around 10cm fresh snow but unlikely to qualify as a winter traverse. Splendid day. Skirted the pinnacles.
mikesuth - Lead - 05/Mar/12 with Andrew James

Steve Woollard - Solo - 03/Mar/12 with Joe Bellows

Hidden - Solo - 31/Jan/12

Hidden - Solo - 15/Jan/12

Hidden - Lead - 13/Jan/12

georgemax - 2012

Hidden - 2012

Hidden - AltLd - 2012

Terrible snow pack conditions. Powdered snow on bare rock. The little bit of frozen turf couldn't give me confidence over the large amount of windslab breaking up when crossing tops of gullies. Needs a good freeze-thaw cycle to be stable.
Ross Young - Solo dnf - 17/Dec/11 with Rubi HWUMC, Anders HWUMC, Emma HWUMC

Hidden - Mar/11

Not great snow conditions but, even so, still a tremendous day out.
chris_j_s - Solo - 22/Feb/11 with David Beadle, Catherine Speakman

Great Mountaineering Day
rob1 - Solo - 22/Feb/11

Lovely day great views massive potential !
unbezonking - Solo O/S - 21/Feb/11 with nic, ana, lyndsey, johnno and Roddie

Lovely day, could see Harris & Lewis and a nice easy sliding desent
rodders24 - Solo - 21/Feb/11 with Lindsey, Nicola Smith, Anna, Jonny Young, Alistair Gray

tev - Solo β - 21/Feb/11 with Alan B

Monkey_Alan - Solo O/S - 21/Feb/11 with Thomas Vaughan

climbed in excellent conditions with john, daz and the laird of eastby
spoony84 - 20/Feb/11

Straight after George, superb day.
t_stork - Solo - 19/Feb/11 with John, Finlay, Rory Brown, Marcus Brown

Hidden - Solo - 19/Feb/11

Hidden - Solo - 19/Feb/11

Hidden - 18/Feb/11

Also done in Feb 05.
Andrew Barker - Lead rpt - 17/Feb/11 with John Barker

sparbus - Solo - 29/Jan/11 with dave porter, simon clark

Hidden - Lead dnf - 08/Jan/11

jonnie3430 - Solo - 06/Jan/11 with Carol

trampingcarol - Solo - 06/Jan/11 with Jonnie Williams

Superb alpine-style ridge. Moved together the whole way with occasional waist belays.
Ly-Cilph - AltLd O/S - 02/Jan/11 with Tim N

tim newton - AltLd O/S - 02/Jan/11 with patrick

adie84 - 2011

oliverk - 2011

Hidden - 2011

Sean Kelly - 2011

bad weather, minimum vis and on New Years Eve!
Marq - Solo O/S - 31/Dec/10 with Chris Billington

Hidden - Solo - 07/Mar/10

lizzie_malc - Solo - 07/Mar/10 with Emily Ward

Fairly wet snow but brilliant with sunny spells and never too hard.
fall-line - 06/Mar/10 with Alex Tuck

rfdl100 - 02/Mar/10 with Joris

Col Kingshott - AltLd - Mar/10

Joris.Roulleau - Mar/10 with Michael Hopert

Tim Rodgers - 2nd - 28/Feb/10 with Jody Knight, Kevin O'Neale

mark and i alternated leads on a rope while AW and GW were the lead rope. stunningly beautiful day and good solid conditions. taken as a whole, a hard II.
andy hunter - AltLd - 21/Feb/10 with mark

Hidden - Solo - 20/Feb/10

Ian JL - Solo O/S - 15/Feb/10

Ian JL - Solo O/S - 15/Feb/10

Hidden - Solo - 10/Feb/10

Ross Young - Solo dnf - 23/Jan/10 with Emma HWUMC, Matt HWUMC

With Dave & Phil. Roped second for tricky step onto ridge but otherwise solo. Weather was forgiving but visability disapointingly poor.
Briwi - Solo O/S - 14/Jan/10

LRB - Solo O/S - 14/Jan/10 with Dave Pilgrim, Garry Smith, Mike Gray

alancash100 - Solo - 2010

Tarquin - 2010

malc - Solo - 12/Apr/09 with Martin and Paul

Moved together for most of the pinnicles. Occasionally stopped for short pitches. Wild weather. Got blown over by spindrift at one point.
bigbobbyking - 29/Mar/09 with Peter Hill

Hidden - AltLd - Mar/09

melville18 - Lead O/S - 29/Dec/08 with claire melville

melville18 - Solo O/S - 29/Dec/08 with claire melville

HamishD - Solo O/S - 16/Mar/08 with gerard, will, phil

Captain Solo - Solo - 15/Jan/08

Ken Applegate - 2008

brianrunner - Solo - 24/Mar/07 with martina

nakedave - Solo - Mar/07

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 12/Feb/07

mortimea - Lead - 11/Jan/07 with Matt Fisher

Sandy Simpson - Solo - 2007

Hidden - Solo rpt - 18/Mar/06

Stuart Macfarlane - Solo - 18/Feb/06 with Anne-Marie

ayuplass - Solo - Feb/06 with dave

DavPk - 21/Jan/06 with Romain Rebut

Richard Holowka - Solo - Jun/05

Joe Nunn - AltLd O/S - Feb/05 with stevious

Done with arm broken 2 weeks before
sgl - AltLd O/S - 06/Mar/04 with Konnie and Matt

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 06/Mar/04

Stuart Macfarlane - AltLd - 28/Feb/04 with Fergal

Gman - Solo O/S - Feb/04 with Carl, Rich, James

Hidden - Jun/03

Hidden - Solo - 17/Feb/02

not full winter conditions
niall_mac - Solo - Feb/96

Hidden - Solo - 26/Dec/89

Stuart S - Solo - Nov/89 with Nigel Eastmond and Ian Robertson

Hidden - Solo - 27/Dec/88

nickcanute - Solo - Mar/87

Iain Thow - Solo - 22/Dec/83

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Style of ascent

Soloed66 of 114 (57.9%)
Lead7 of 114 (6.1%)
Followed3 of 114 (2.6%)
Alt Leads13 of 114 (11.4%)
Unknown25 of 114 (21.9%)

'Climbed'82 of 114 (71.9%)
clean O/S26 of 114 (22.8%)
clean β1 of 114 (0.9%)
clean rpt2 of 114 (1.8%)
dnf3 of 114 (2.6%)