I'm wondering if someone can help me with directions to Crystal Ridge at Coire Sputan Dearg. I'm just trying to sort the location of the climb. The SMC climbing guide indicates that the climb is just left off the main buttress, directly above the person pictured here:
in the first picture you linked, it's very slightly left of directly above the person - pretty much a quarter of the way across the image. If you click on the image from glencoemountaineer you'll find a good blog piece about it. Lovely route!
I think the Scottish rock picture might be wrong but I would need to have a look back home. Vaguely recall realising that on one of my visits. If it is it should be one for correction in the re-print. Once you finish crystal ridge there is a bit of loose scree scrambling to get to the top of the corrie which the first picture shows
I think the Scottish rock picture might be wrong but I would need to have a look back home. Vaguely recall realising that on one of my visits. If it is it should be one for correction in the re-print. Once you finish crystal ridge there is a bit of loose scree scrambling to get to the top of the corrie which the first picture shows
I, too, think the Scottish Rock picture is wrong, and that it goes up the buttress to the right of the one it's marked on in in that picture.
The thing we found slightly confusing when we did it (long ago!) was that it was really a slab, rather than a ridge. Good fun, though I remember finding it quite scary in big boots in the damp, and it tops out into some mildly unpleasant terrain.
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