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Date : 18/01/2015

Grade : V

Grade : 6

Style : Alternate Lead

Type : Mixed Climbing

Weather : Light snow - poor visibility

Wind : Strong wind

Camping Type :

Nights Camping : 0

Crag : Coire an t-Sneachda

Climb : Burning and Looting

Flagged :

Description

Pretty windy and snowy day. Snow gates shut so walked up the road to the ski center. Walked into Coire Lochain, on approach got spooked by snow conditions (some substantial pockets of windslab) along with the poor visibility skirted round to the top of Coire Lochain looking to ab into something. Extremely windy at the top of the crag so did some navigation over to Fiacaill Ridge and descended to the abseil of The Seam. Rapped down The Seam and traversed into Fiacaill Couloir to take a look at Burning and Looting.
Alasdair took the first proper pitch of climbing, good conditions with the precarious move taken on the right. Some good layaway moves after. I took over for the next pitch, a few tenuous hooks but mostly nice climbing with big pulls between ledges. Good fun.
Climbed with Alasdair Buchanan.

Area : Cairngorm: Northern Corries, Hell's Lum, Creagan Coire Cha-no, Lurcher's Crag and Outliers

This Area includes some of the most accessible (and some of the hardest) winter climbs in Scotland. Coire an t-Sneachda has an excellent variety of winter climbs, many in the lower to middle grades, while Coire an Lochain hosts classics of a range of grades and some extremely demanding test-pieces. This Area also includes the very accessible Creagan Coire Cha-no, Lurcher's Crag in the northern Lairig Ghru, and the training bluffs of the Chalamain Gap. Also included here are the cliffs of the northern side of the Loch A'an basin such as Hell's Lum, Stag Rocks and Stac an Fharaidh (as they are on the same general massif as Cairngorm), while cliffs on the southern side of Loch A'an are in the Ben Macdui, Carn Etchachan and Shelter Stone Crag Area of DLOG. The range's former name is Am Monadh Ruadh (the red hills), distinguishing them from Am Monadh Liath (the grey hills) to the west of the River Spey.

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