Date: 17th April
Location: The Roxx indoor wall (Christchurch)
Weather: Raining
Duration: 2.5 hours
Group: Me and Andy
Incidents: None
good day at the Roxx been there a few times and top roped and it was good to have a go at leading there.
Punakiki
Date: 10th April
Location: Punakiki
Weather: Fine
Duration: 6 hours
Group: Me, Andy, Luke, Ana, Gretchen, Kelly, Alice, Robbie
Incidents: None
A fun day climbing at punakiki i got in heaps of climbs in and did a cool grade 18 with a really hard over hand but it was missing a bolt so if i fell it would have been a big one.
Assesment Week Rock
Date: 7-8th April
Location: Greymouth climbing wall and Charleston
Weather: fine
Duration: 12 hours
Group: Orec group 1
Incidents: none
spent the first day assessing lead climbing, abseiling and top rope rescue. spent the Friday at Charleston setting up anchors, bouldering and top roping. i failed my first anchor and had to redo it my second one took 14 minuets and i passed
Punakiki
Date: 6th April
Location: Punakiki
Weather: Fine
Duration: 1 hour
Group: Me, Andy
Incidents: none
decided to go for a climb at 5 at night so we quickly packed up and left at 5:10 we got there and managed to get in 3 climbs each before it got dark.
Rock Week Two Tech
Date: 15th March - 18th March
Location: Greymouth climbing wall, Castle hill, Charleston
Weather: Raining most of the week. On Friday it cleared up
Duration: 24 hours
Group: Outdoor rec group 1
Incidents: None
On the second week of climbing we spent the first day back on the climbing wall in Greymouth practiced absailing from the top of a climb and setting up to be lowered and had another go at lead climbing. the second day we headed back up to charleston to set up our own anchors and climbed on them but it was raining heavily when we arrived so we couldn't climb them so we returned to greymouth early on the Thursday we drove 2 hours to castle hill to go bouldering but it was also wet so Dave and Rob talked us through the basics of spotting a climber on trees because we couldent climb the rock and different climbing techniques then returned to greymouth climbing wall for the afternoon and lernt top rope rescue. friday our group split up half went to punakaiki to lead climb and the other half went to charleston to practice setting up anchors i went to charleston practiced setting up a few anchors and also did more top rope climbing.
Climbing trees at Castle hill
Castle hill
Rock Week One Tech
Date: 1st March - 4th March
Location: Greymouth climbing wall and Charleston
Weather: Tuesday and Thursday rain. Wednesday and Friday fine.
Duration: 24 hours
Group: Outdoor rec group 1
Incidents: None
On the 1st of march we began our first week of rock climbing at the climbing wall in Greymouth we started with top rope climbing and Rob showed us the best ways to climb using our feet rather than relying on our hands to pull us up. in the afternoon we moved on to lead climbing we started with a top rope attached to us while we learnt and became comfortable clipping the rope in then moved on to lead climbing later on. The second day we traveled about 1 hour north of Greymouth to Charleston and climbed there during the morning in Ushers cove and practiced placing natural pro and setting up anchors in the afternoon. Thursday there was bad weather so we couldn't go to Charleston so we used the climbing wall again we learnt to prussok up a rope and seating up for an absail at the top of a climb. on Friday it cleared up so we were able to go back up to Charleston for the day. We spent the day setting up anchors. we set one anchor up the top and hung over the edge to test it. Then spent the rest of the day top rope climbing in Ushers cove.
The Greymouth climbing wall
