Thursday. Conditions today were excellent and most guests and hosts chose to go on the Ben. Everyone had a great day and some amazing routes were done.
Some of the routes done today include
- Tower ridge IV 4
- Wedigo IV 4
- Morwind III 4
- Gargoyle VI 6
- Diana V 5
- JP is Back IV 5
- Cascade IV 5
- Indicator Wall (Rght Hand) V 5
- Es Tressider and Paul Sab (Germany) did Stringfellow VI 6
- Freddie Wilkinson (USA) and Rok Zalokar (Slovenia) did 3rd ascent of Sioux Wall VIII 8 including the upper pitches. (photo Viv Scott)
- Albatros VI 5
- Darth Vader VII 8
- Stu MacAleese and Tomaz Jakofcic (Slovenia) did Cornercoupia VII 9
- Dave MacLeod, Hiroyoshi Manome and Katsutaka Yokoyama (both Japan) did a new route on the Comb above the Good Groove graded VIII 8. A great present for Hiroyoshi who celebrates his birthday today!
- Viv Scott and Domagoj Bojko (Croatia) did a new route VIII 8 that takes the obvious hanging chimney just left of South Sea Bubble Viv has provisionally named the route Salva Mea.
- Ian Parnell and Sean Isaac (Canada) did a new line based around the line of Last Stand on the Sioux Wall and provisionally named it Curly's Arete VIII 8
The BMC would like to thanks all the hosts and all the international guests for contributing to a fantastic week as well as all the staff at Glen Lodge for all their unflagging support.
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