Good snow cover not great quality though, walls were running water. Currently at I for the most part with a little ice step of II near the top which is unprotected. Managed to drop my bag just before the top which then proceeded to slide the entire 230m of the Gully and stop at the fork between both North and South Gullies. A long detour down the shoulder of Carn Dearg and a walk up the Red Burn path and back into the main gully reunited us, made for an interesting day.
Nath93 - AltLd - Mar/13
Climbed the Castle Gullies after backing off Raeburn's Buttress. Made a long day, walked off by moonlight. (No need for headtorches until we reached the forest!)
Monkey_Alan - Solo O/S - 18/Feb/13 with Tom Starks
Straightforeward and tiring! Only one ice step at top chokestone. Finished to the right at the top for variety,soft before the plateau.
tomshanti - Solo O/S - 18/Feb/13 with Alan Blanchflower
Found the gully to be banked out with Deep snow 4-6feet of powder.
Decided against climbing due to avalanche risk
RUDIN.J.D.H - Lead dnf - 09/Feb/13 with Olivia Neal, Luke Cullum, Greta Ferloni
lcullum7 - Lead dnf - 09/Feb/13 with Joe Rudin, Olivia Neal, Greta Ferloni
Hidden - AltLd dnf - 13/Jan/13
Moved together. One chockstone step a bit thin which made for an interesting pitch of mixed climbing.
rmowilson - 12/Jan/13 with Andrew Broadway, Simon Taylor
Took advantage of the low avalanche risk. Upper chockstone step was a bit thin which made for an interesting pitch of mixed climbing. Seemed harder than II in the conditions.
andybroadway - AltLd - 12/Jan/13 with Bob Wilson, Simon Taylor
Chockstone was exposed, which involved moves of tech 4 to bypass.
Ken Applegate - Solo - 10/Mar/12 with Hannah Evans
keith hal - Solo O/S - 13/Feb/12 with Iain Mckenzie
jdgaventa - AltLd - 12/Feb/12
chris smith - Solo O/S - 02/Feb/12
JamesRoddie - Solo O/S - 01/Feb/12
peter fetlar - AltLd - Feb/12 with luke kenny, julie
Ski descent
hcreber - 2012
dannymoo99 - 2nd - 27/Mar/11 with Tom Shooter
Hidden - Lead - 27/Mar/11
steven - Solo - 05/Mar/11 with Geoff Graham, Dave Ryder
Hidden - Solo - 04/Mar/11
Descent
Captain Solo - Solo rpt - 22/Feb/11
Hidden - 21/Feb/11
Hidden - AltLd - 21/Feb/11
Hidden - AltLd O/S - 31/Jan/11
Hidden - AltLd - 31/Jan/11
Jonny M - 2nd O/S - 31/Jan/11 with Steve Farmer, Mark Beecher
Simul climbed
Marq - AltLd O/S - 31/Jan/11 with Steve Farmer (HMC - CIC), Jon Moulding
Swam up it, the chockstone boulder had very little ice, Very powdery snow.
Spidermunkie - Lead O/S - 09/Jan/11 with Sam, Eddy
Timo Austino - Solo - 06/Mar/10
pitched for an easy day out
maxots - 11/Feb/10 with MARCUS
Hidden - Lead - 31/Jan/10
soloed all of it except moving over the bulge. Snow very deep and powdery. The belay from remus at the top was near useless if it had been tested.
benkelsey - 2nd O/S - 29/Jan/10 with Remus Knowles
Looking quite bare at the top.
Poco Loco - Lead - 19/Feb/09 with Richard Roberts
mortimea - AltLd - 23/Mar/08 with Greg Richards, Mark Adamson
Hidden - 2nd - 15/Mar/08
Hidden - AltLd - 15/Mar/08
kjbix - Solo - 2007 with Gary Caswell
Captain Solo - Solo - 25/Feb/06
easers - Solo - Apr/05 with Stuart
Lone Rider - AltLd - Feb/76
In company with J Grieve
David Smith - Solo - Apr/60