Date: 03/09/2016
Time: 12:00pm - 4:30pm Location: Punakaiki People: Lucy Bennet, Issac Buerben, Tom Beadle, Matt Sparrow, Mathew Schweizer, Cam Bloomfield. Weather: Sunny, fine. Grades Climbed: Grade 13, 15 and 16 all on Lead. Personal Time Comments: Had some fun climbing around the main area. Found that I didn't really like the rock quality. mostly lead during the day. Enjoyed it, it was good to get climbing again on natural rock. Some tricky moves during the over hang parts of the climbs but managed to pull them off. Also practice change over to abseil and set up some 2 point anchors.
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Date: 24/05/2016
Time: 7pm - 9pm Location: Greymouth, People: Matt Sparrow, Mathew Schweizer, Tom Beadle Weather: Clear Personal Time Comments: It was good to be able to use the gym. We were all signed off to lead as well which was good. So we managed to get some good lead climbing in. Did pretty much all of the climbs available and got the most out of it I could before I started to tire too much to climb. Good Practice and exercise. Date: 14/04/2016
Time: 10am -5:30 Location: Wanaka People: Lucy Bennet, Ryan Colley, Issac Buerben Weather: Sunny, fine. Climbs: Hospital Flat: Main Cliff -Headbangers Arete Tombstone Personal Time Comments. Got rope stuck at the top of tombstone. Had to go up and get it because I thought there was a knot in it. There wasn't. It was frictioned on itself, which was annoying. Had a talk before we went up about this is the time things go wrong. So Ryan made sure I double checked everything. Other than that, Good climbs, heaps of fun. Date: 26/03/2016
Time: 10am - 2:10pm Location: Wanaka People: Mathew Schweizer Weather: Sunny/hot Climbs: Hospital Flat Little Big Wall -Tune In, Tune On, Drop Out, Grade 16 Multi-pitch Motatapu Valley Roadside Attraction Personal Time Comments: First Multi-pitch. Followed on top rope because I decided I did not want to lead until I had more experience. Took about an hour and a half. Abseil was pretty big. About 50m. Scary but exciting. Ascended with Prusik. Went to Roadside afterwards and lead an 18. Date: 25/03/2016
Time: 9:30am - 4:30 pm Location: Wanaka People: Mathew Schweizer Weather: Overcast Climbs: Hospital flat: Main Cliff -Headbangers Arete, Grade 17 -Bang My Drum, Grade 18 Diamond Lake The Bakehouse -Groove, Grade 17 -Stealing Candy From A Baby, Grade 17 Diamond Slab -Got A Job, Grade 17 Personal Time. Comments: 2:30am Start. Headed to Wanaka from Greymouth. Got to the crag and starting climbing at 9:30am. Lead my first grade 18 on Bang My Drum with no falls. Climbed my first overhang on lead on Stealing Candy From A Baby with no falls.but took a while to figure out after the overhang. Got to do a few change overs to abseil with prusik. Mathew fell on a grade 20 while I was on belay and I was pulled into the wall but I was able to hold on to the rope and prevent him from falling. Very long but awesome day! |
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