Out with Nettle yesterday, 16/02/12, on Cam Chreag. We climbed climbed a line in the area of Spaewife. Having started up Spaewife to the belay at the wall we moved “up and left” as per the second pitch description. However, this didn’t lead to the corner and it seems like the description should say “up and right”. The moves up and left involved an exciting rising leftwards traverse using two parallel turf ledges and was very worthwile. We finished up and slightly left joining a steepening groove line to finish. Hard to grade, but we felt about V,4. We walked out via Meall Garbh and Meall nan Tarmachan.
The turf was very well frozen at crag height and warthogs were required for both runners and belays. The snow was firmish at the start of the day, but softened up throughout in the thawing conditions. There’s pretty good snow cover from just above the carpark height. By the end of the day the snow was soft and saturated at all levels.
