South Post Direct: a Winter Climbing Classic

For more years than I care to remember, the Post Face of Creag Meaghaidh has exerted a mixture of fascination and repulsion on me.  Years ago, when I was climbing at a reasonable standard; when I could have dealt with all the classics in reasonable style, I somehow just never got round to those routes.  I squandered much quality winter, in the eighties, scratting about on little miserable crags instead of getting myself north. A couple of years ago I went out with Mike W and we had a crack at Centre Post.  I didn’t have the arms to contemplate the direct pitch, so we beetled off around the old original route, which has a lot to recommend it if you’re not a full on modern ice warrior.  At last the spell had been broken and I had finally got a post...