{"id":3053,"date":"2011-01-05T20:56:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:09:45","slug":"knee-deep-on-beinn-a-chaorainn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/knee-deep-on-beinn-a-chaorainn.html","title":{"rendered":"Knee-deep on Beinn a&#8217; Chaorainn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought the East Ridge of Beinn a&#8217; Chaorainn (a &#8216;fine 300m Grade II scramble&#8217;) looked like a good choice for today with fresh snow loading things up and any gullies that might have attracted me for a solo mountaineering day likely avalanche traps, but really can&#8217;t remember when I last found so much deep snow on a ridge!<!--more--> So, OK, it was rarely over knee-deep except in drifts, but so consistently soft at that (the photos just don&#8217;t do it justice) that much excavation was needed on the steeper steps to work out what (if anything) I was trying to stand on. Which varied between flat rock (good), steep rock (not so good when you can&#8217;t see it properly), some harder snow (OK), turfy steps (good) and short cuts to Australia (no, just made that one up to stress the &#8216;lucky dip&#8217; character of it all!), but contributed no end to a hard-working &#8216;short&#8217; day at good value for a &#8216;scramble&#8217;. Nice little snow apexes up much of the ridge too, honed to a sharp angle but not actually corniced on either side. And a near-whiteout on top for some navigation practice to get off again. So maybe a perfect day given current needs?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05ridge1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3061\" title=\"2011-01-05ridge1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05ridge1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05ridge1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05ridge1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05ridge2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3062\" title=\"2011-01-05ridge2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05ridge2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05ridge2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05ridge2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05ridge3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3063\" title=\"2011-01-05ridge3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05ridge3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05ridge3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05ridge3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05cairn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3064\" title=\"2011-01-05cairn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05cairn-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05cairn-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-01-05cairn.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought the East Ridge of Beinn a&#8217; Chaorainn (a &#8216;fine 300m Grade II scramble&#8217;) looked like a good choice for today with fresh snow loading things up and any gullies that might have attracted me for a solo mountaineering day likely avalanche traps, but really can&#8217;t remember when I last found so much deep snow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11870,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions\/11870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}