Rock-Personal

Date: Thurs' 21st April

Location: Charlston

Weather: fine, warm & sunny

Duration: 4hrs

Members: Me and Jimmy, Simon Barber, Rebecca Ewan.

Grades: 16-21

Key Learning: Building anchors, top rope

Went to Charlston and headed over to climb Racing the Streets first. Me and Jimmy both climbed it then i belayed Jimmy by an Italian Hitch for the first time. Then we went over to Sunset Rib where i set up an anchor to climb off the 19 and 21. Hadn't climbed the grade 21 climb before so was pritty stoked. After that we just had a play round Bouldering for a while then left. Sweeeet Day.

Kayak-Personal

Date: Tues' 19th April
Location: Mikonui
Weather: Fine and sunny
Group members: Jimmy Jarvie, Chris Harvey, Ben Searle
Duration: 3.5hrs
Flow: Low
Grade: 2+3
Incidents: none

Long run down the Mohikinui at a low flow so quite a few of the rapids were boney. Ran a sweet Grade 3 rapid and a few rapids required manoevering around alot of rocks so it was good for my stroke technique. would probably do it another time at a higher flow but was still a good trip.

Kayak-Personal

Date: Sun 17th April

Location: Crooked

Weather: Cloudy but mainly fine.

Grade: 2+

Group Members: Jimmy Jarvie, Chris Harvey, Ben Searle

Duration: 2.5hrs
Incidents: none

Another good run on the Crooked. Flow was a bit lower than the day before so i decided not to run the first grade 3 rapid. Rest of the run was fun tho. surfing on a few waves and having a play around on the buffer wave. Sweet day.

Kayak-Personal

Date: Sat' 16th April
Loaction:  Crooked
Weather: Drizzle, cloudy
Group members: Chris Harvey, Jimmy Jarvie
Duration: 2hrs
Grade: 2+-3
Incidents: I tipped over in a rapid, hitting my head on a rock on the way down and swam.

Went to the Crooked with Jimmy and Chris. Ran the first Grade 3 rapid, following jimmy down the correct line. It was good to paddle a slightly harder rapid and the rest of the run went really good but quite quick as we didn't play around on the Buffer wave etc for long. But still a sweet day.

Bush-Polytech

Date: Tues 22nd March-Fri 25th March

Location: Lewis Pass-Palmer Flat

Weather:  Very windy 1st night & rain then fine for the rest of the tramp.

Group Members: Outdoor Rec, Group 2.

Duration: 4 days

Incidents: Wasp stings but no one who was allergic got stung.

Key Learning: Navigational skills.

Quite a short walk on the 1st day from Lewis Pass to our chosen camp destination. Ended up being a really exposed spot so got hit by some strong wind and rain that night. got up at 7.30am to another cold, windy morning but it became fine in the afternoon. I took over leading that day after ben and lead us to Brass Monkey Bivouac where we stopped and had lunch. We thought that was going to be our camp spot but we got there at bout 2ish so thought we could get more walking out of the day so walked for another 2hrs. set up camp down near a river, cooked tea and made a fire. Woke up to a big frost that morning, had breakfast then Chris Harvey took over leading that day. Did some nav work throughout the day, stopped at a river/swimming hole that Zak jumped into and it was freezing. Carried on till we hit Lake Cristabel hut. Had lunch there, Rata took over leading and made our way round the lake, had a swim then hit our next camp spot for the night at the edge of the lake. Awesome spot with the view of the lake infront of us. Last day we walked for about 3 and a half hours approx to the vans. Really good tramp and great weather.

Rock- Polytech

Date: Tues 29 March-Fri 1st April.
Location: Castle Hill, Charlston, Punakaiki.
Weather: Fine all week-Sunny, warm.
Group members: Outdoor Rec, Group 2
Duration:  1 day
Grades: 17-19
Incidents: none
Key Learning: Bouldering, spotting, building anchors, top rope rescue, lead climbing.

Awesome day at Castle hill, amazing weather, solving good boulder problems and getting taught how to spot correctly. Had about 2 and a half hours climbing there then left. Climbing at Charlston on Wednesday and Thursday working on anchors, setting them up then climbing off them. Climbed the 19 i'd done before, few 18+'s. Also got shown by Rob how to Top rope rescue then practised that aswell as setting up anchors on Thursday. Friday we went to Punakaiki to do lead climbs and practise abseling and the change over to be belayed down. Lead a 18 at the end of the day to strip the climb then left. sweet week overall and really lucky with the good weather we got for it.

Kayak-Personal

Date: Sat' 26th March
Location: Crooked River
Weather: Cloudy, foggy/misty through the gorge but  fine
Group members: Sara Dwyer, Robbie Williams, Jimmy Jarvie, Greg Lee, Anthony Hobern, Mikey Perry, Andy Hall, Nick Bishop & Todd Murray.
Duration: 3hrs

Incidents: Nick surfing a hole, got tipped over and when rolling hit his head on a rock but no major injury.

Key Learning: More technical rapids-running the correct line.

Good run down the Crooked, watched Jimmy, Greg, Anthony & Nick paddle one of the upper crooked rapids then walked back down the track and met them at an easier put in. further down the river we surfed a big buffer wave, did my first unexpected roll so was pritty stoked. Carried on down through some cool rapids into the gorge. Pritty sweet day. Was good to do a different river.