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Waterpipe Gully Sgurr an Fheadain

Waterpipe Gully Sgurr an Fheadain


Postby chazzyboy19 » Wed May 18, 2022 5:54 pm

Date walked: 17/05/2022

Time taken: 4 hours

Distance: 10.1 km

Ascent: 916m

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This was a day with John Smith of Skye Adventure, parked at the Fairy Pools car park and walked along the degraded path to the foot of the ridge, geared up and crossed the initial slabs in short pitches before crossing west onto the main ridge, mainly moving together, made good progress, then the rain came on so got on all the wet weather gear and then had a couple of short belayed sections before reaching the top in the pouring rain and strong wind. worked down slippy rakes to the top of the stone chute then down the scree to the corrie bottom, followed the path back to the car, soaked but happy. A great route slightly spoiled by it beingh quite so wet, of course it dried up a bit as soon as we got back to the car.
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Re: Waterpipe Gully Sgurr an Fheadain

Postby gaffr » Thu May 19, 2022 6:06 am

I guess that you mean the steepish terrain left of the dark depths of the damp spectacular slot : :lol:
I went to shin up a few dark slots in the past until I found drier stuff.....appears to be a reasonable way up to the ridge.
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Re: Waterpipe Gully Sgurr an Fheadain

Postby chazzyboy19 » Thu May 19, 2022 1:10 pm

Doesn't actually take you to the ridge there are still some more scrambly bits to go and another 150m elevation gain
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