Date: Tues 15th-Fri 18th March
Location: Lake
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Kayaking- Personal
Date: Sunday 23rd September
Location: Crooked
Weather: Warm and Sunny
Grade: 2
Group Members: Myself, Tui, Gretchen, Luke, Watson
Accidents/Incidents: None
Awesome, cruisy day down the crooked. Played in all the waves and caught as many eddies as we could to get the most out of the day. The flow was pretty low so we decided not to walk up to the grade 3 put in but still not a bad flow to play in waves etc. As Luke ran the shuttle we stayed in the river practising back deck and rodeo rolls. Didn't quite manage to nail it but it's my goal to try get one.
Location: Crooked
Weather: Warm and Sunny
Grade: 2
Group Members: Myself, Tui, Gretchen, Luke, Watson
Accidents/Incidents: None
Awesome, cruisy day down the crooked. Played in all the waves and caught as many eddies as we could to get the most out of the day. The flow was pretty low so we decided not to walk up to the grade 3 put in but still not a bad flow to play in waves etc. As Luke ran the shuttle we stayed in the river practising back deck and rodeo rolls. Didn't quite manage to nail it but it's my goal to try get one.
Kayaking-Personal
Date: Saturday 22nd September
Location: Arahura
Weather: Warm and Sunny
Grade: 3
Group Members: Myself, Gretchen, Eckies, Jake, Dan, Harvey, Sara, Martijn, Watson, Ru, Lenny, Tui
Accidents/Incidents: One swim from Eckies
Nice day for a walk up the Arahura. Big crew but we managed that by splitting into two groups so we wern't so clustered. Martijn and Jake went up further to run Cespit. We met them at the grade 3 put in and headed down. Not too far into it Eckies had a swim but no problems cleaning that up. Headed on down catching heaps of eddies and trying to milk it. Sweeet day!
Location: Arahura
Weather: Warm and Sunny
Grade: 3
Group Members: Myself, Gretchen, Eckies, Jake, Dan, Harvey, Sara, Martijn, Watson, Ru, Lenny, Tui
Accidents/Incidents: One swim from Eckies
Nice day for a walk up the Arahura. Big crew but we managed that by splitting into two groups so we wern't so clustered. Martijn and Jake went up further to run Cespit. We met them at the grade 3 put in and headed down. Not too far into it Eckies had a swim but no problems cleaning that up. Headed on down catching heaps of eddies and trying to milk it. Sweeet day!
Monday, 17 September 2012
Raft-Tech
Date: 18th-20th September
Location: Arnold, Upper Grey River
Weather: Fine
Group members: Tech raft students
Grades: 2-3
Accidents/Incidents: 4 broken paddles
Fun 2 days on the Arnold guiding and doing rescue scenario's such as tethered raft, throw bagging, z-drags and pig-rigs. The last day we went to the Upper Grey river to get some grade 3 guiding in.
Location: Arnold, Upper Grey River
Weather: Fine
Group members: Tech raft students
Grades: 2-3
Accidents/Incidents: 4 broken paddles
Fun 2 days on the Arnold guiding and doing rescue scenario's such as tethered raft, throw bagging, z-drags and pig-rigs. The last day we went to the Upper Grey river to get some grade 3 guiding in.
Sunday, 16 September 2012
Raft-Personal
Date: Sunday 17th September
Location: Crooked River
Duration: 2.5hrs
Weather: Fine
Group Members: Tui Kraal, Gretchen Dalzell, Luke Wilson, Myself
Flow: Low
Accidents/Incidents: None
Fun run down the Crooked practising our guiding skills and rescue skills for assessments. Started with doing some tethered rafts, some systems, flipped raft and just a good time guiding the Crooked which i haven't rafted before. Nice weather for it too!
Location: Crooked River
Duration: 2.5hrs
Weather: Fine
Group Members: Tui Kraal, Gretchen Dalzell, Luke Wilson, Myself
Flow: Low
Accidents/Incidents: None
Sunday, 9 September 2012
Raft & Kayak-Personal
Date: Saturday 8th September
Location: Arnold
Duration: 1 day
Weather: Thunder, heavy rain
Group Members: Myself, Ellis Slee, James Sadler, Gretchen Dalzell, Luke Wilson
Flow: 100cumecs
Accidents/Incidents: None
Monday, 6 August 2012
Kayaking-Personal
Date: Thursday 2nd August
Location: Hurunui
Duration: 1 day
Group memebers: Jimmy Jarvie, James Sadler, Myself
Weather: Rain and cold
Flow: 180cumecs
Accidents/Incidents: Heading into the gorge (Maori gully) I had a swim. Got tipped getting pushed under a slightly undercut/overhanging rock, losing my paddle so couldn't roll . Lost the paddle, so had to walk up the steep bank out of the gorge onto the road, haul the kayak up the bank and walk it to the take out. Not ideal.
So we headed to the Hurunui thinking the 180cumec flow was gunna bring something exciting, but all that we got was a washed out, faster flowing river. It was very boily and lots of lateral waves, buffer waves off the rocks on the side of the river so not as fun as it gets at a lower flow. Boils got the better of me a times, rolling alot but the one time i happen to roll over and lose my paddle, it was as we headed into the gorge so my swim was not ideal. Made a very hard walk out but all went well with communication with Jimmy and James. Once i got onto the road we blew our whistles to locate where each other were. Met them at the take out and drove the 4wd motorbike (As our shuttle) to the truck at the put in. We got changed, drove back to the take-out, loaded the kayaks and headed home. Not the best of days but a good learning experience. Maybe i need to get a hand roll locked down!
Location: Hurunui
Duration: 1 day
Group memebers: Jimmy Jarvie, James Sadler, Myself
Weather: Rain and cold
Flow: 180cumecs
Accidents/Incidents: Heading into the gorge (Maori gully) I had a swim. Got tipped getting pushed under a slightly undercut/overhanging rock, losing my paddle so couldn't roll . Lost the paddle, so had to walk up the steep bank out of the gorge onto the road, haul the kayak up the bank and walk it to the take out. Not ideal.
So we headed to the Hurunui thinking the 180cumec flow was gunna bring something exciting, but all that we got was a washed out, faster flowing river. It was very boily and lots of lateral waves, buffer waves off the rocks on the side of the river so not as fun as it gets at a lower flow. Boils got the better of me a times, rolling alot but the one time i happen to roll over and lose my paddle, it was as we headed into the gorge so my swim was not ideal. Made a very hard walk out but all went well with communication with Jimmy and James. Once i got onto the road we blew our whistles to locate where each other were. Met them at the take out and drove the 4wd motorbike (As our shuttle) to the truck at the put in. We got changed, drove back to the take-out, loaded the kayaks and headed home. Not the best of days but a good learning experience. Maybe i need to get a hand roll locked down!
Monday, 30 July 2012
Mountain Biking
Date: 25th-26th July 2012
Location: Hanmer Springs
Duration: 2 days
Weather: Drizzle then fine
Group members: Grey High Outdoor ed class
Supervisors: Myself and Wayne Cooper
Difficulty (grade): Intermediate
Accidents/Incidents: None
I was asked to go along to help out wtih Grey High Outdoor Ed class for their mountain biking trip in Hanmer. Wayne needed another helper/supervisor and a girl specifically to be a good role model for the girls in the class. We left Greymouth at 9am and got to Hanmer where we got ready to go for the first mountain bike ride. It wasn't the best weather on this day; Drizzling and cold but we still had heaps of fun. We had dinner after we'd arrived back then went to the hotpools. Next day we got up, cleaned the kitchen and our rooms and went for another mountain bike, this time a harder track but everyone did really well. We got back to the forest camp, had some lunch then went orienteering. I paired up with Charlotte so i could help her with her map reading. Had a really great time then it was time to head back to Greymouth where we arrived back at 7pm.
Location: Hanmer Springs
Duration: 2 days
Weather: Drizzle then fine
Group members: Grey High Outdoor ed class
Supervisors: Myself and Wayne Cooper
Difficulty (grade): Intermediate
Accidents/Incidents: None
I was asked to go along to help out wtih Grey High Outdoor Ed class for their mountain biking trip in Hanmer. Wayne needed another helper/supervisor and a girl specifically to be a good role model for the girls in the class. We left Greymouth at 9am and got to Hanmer where we got ready to go for the first mountain bike ride. It wasn't the best weather on this day; Drizzling and cold but we still had heaps of fun. We had dinner after we'd arrived back then went to the hotpools. Next day we got up, cleaned the kitchen and our rooms and went for another mountain bike, this time a harder track but everyone did really well. We got back to the forest camp, had some lunch then went orienteering. I paired up with Charlotte so i could help her with her map reading. Had a really great time then it was time to head back to Greymouth where we arrived back at 7pm.
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Kayaking- Personal
Date: Saturday 14th July
Location: Nine Mile Flood Run
Weather: Rain!
Group Members: Myself, Jimmy Jarvie and James Sadler
Grade: 3+-4
Flow: High
Accidents/Incidents: Jimmy hurt his ankle whilst going down the last slide. Hit the last ramp of the slide and nose dived rolling over and somehow sprained his ankle in the process. A stick and a paddle helped his walk out. :)
Awsome flood run! two sweet slides, the last being about 100m.
Location: Nine Mile Flood Run
Weather: Rain!
Group Members: Myself, Jimmy Jarvie and James Sadler
Grade: 3+-4
Flow: High
Accidents/Incidents: Jimmy hurt his ankle whilst going down the last slide. Hit the last ramp of the slide and nose dived rolling over and somehow sprained his ankle in the process. A stick and a paddle helped his walk out. :)
Awsome flood run! two sweet slides, the last being about 100m.
Kayaking Personal
Date:
Location: Hurunui
Weather: Fine and Sunny
Grade: 3
Flow: 40 cumecs
Group members: Myself, Jimmy Jarvie, James Sadler, Tom Slee
Accidents/Incidents: Tom had a swim but not a biggie. Car almost broke down on the way there in the middle of nowhere. But we got there in the end!
Awsome day on the Hurinui. Slow to get there because the car decided to blow its air condtitioning valve. (Not even too sure that's what it was) ha but we had to keep refilling the water every 5 mins. We managed to get it fixed and head to the river! Luckily. Put in at the grade 2 so we could warm up as Tom (who hadnt kayaked much at all) was coming down with us. He had a swim after pulling into an eddy and failing his roll twice and drank a bit of water so that was no good. We got out at the put-it of Maori Gully so we could walk to the car and drive it back to the take out. Then we had to walk all the way back to Maori Gully put in to kayak that section. The day was getting on around that time and getting pretty cold but the river was at a good flow and had heaps of fun. Wicked Day!
Location: Hurunui
Weather: Fine and Sunny
Grade: 3
Flow: 40 cumecs
Group members: Myself, Jimmy Jarvie, James Sadler, Tom Slee
Accidents/Incidents: Tom had a swim but not a biggie. Car almost broke down on the way there in the middle of nowhere. But we got there in the end!
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Rock-Instruction
Date: Tues 26th June, Wednesday 27th June
Location: Greymouth Civic Centre
Duration: 2days
Client Group: Grey High School
Instructors: Gretchen Dalzell, Chris Eckies, Phil Palzar, Myself
Tutor in charge: Phil Johnston
Accidents/Incidents: None
Good two days instructing. Although would've been better if the weather was on our side and we could have gone to Charleston but instead we were indoors. I ran the belay talk on the first day which went well. We also taught them how to put on a harness, figure of 8 knots, top-rope climbing and abseiling. On Wednesday we introduced lead climbing to upskill their learning. It went well and the kids enjoyed their two days with us.
Location: Greymouth Civic Centre
Duration: 2days
Client Group: Grey High School
Instructors: Gretchen Dalzell, Chris Eckies, Phil Palzar, Myself
Tutor in charge: Phil Johnston
Accidents/Incidents: None
Good two days instructing. Although would've been better if the weather was on our side and we could have gone to Charleston but instead we were indoors. I ran the belay talk on the first day which went well. We also taught them how to put on a harness, figure of 8 knots, top-rope climbing and abseiling. On Wednesday we introduced lead climbing to upskill their learning. It went well and the kids enjoyed their two days with us.
Sunday, 24 June 2012
Kayaking- Personal
Date: Sunday 24th June
Location: Crooked River
Weather: Rain and hail
Duration: 1 day
Flow: Med-High
Grade: 2+
Group members: Chris Eckies, Kristen, Rebecca, myself
Accidents/Incidents: 3 swims from Rebecca.
Good day on the Crooked. Raining and cold and a higher, pushier flow than usual after all the rain. had 3 swims from Rebecca but other than that no other problems. I was the most experienced there so was my responsibilty to take care of the group.
Location: Crooked River
Weather: Rain and hail
Duration: 1 day
Flow: Med-High
Grade: 2+
Group members: Chris Eckies, Kristen, Rebecca, myself
Accidents/Incidents: 3 swims from Rebecca.
Good day on the Crooked. Raining and cold and a higher, pushier flow than usual after all the rain. had 3 swims from Rebecca but other than that no other problems. I was the most experienced there so was my responsibilty to take care of the group.
Sunday, 17 June 2012
Camp
Date: Tues' 19th-Fri 22nd
Location: Lake Kaniere, Mt Brown, Arahura River
Duration: 4 days
Weather: Cold, showers
Group members: Myself, Luke Wilson, Sara Dwyer, Owen Wilson, Greg Lee, Keiran Chandler.
Tutor in charge: Phil Johnston
Location: Lake Kaniere, Mt Brown, Arahura River
Duration: 4 days
Weather: Cold, showers
Group members: Myself, Luke Wilson, Sara Dwyer, Owen Wilson, Greg Lee, Keiran Chandler.
Tutor in charge: Phil Johnston
Accidents/Incidents:
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Tramp-Personal
Date: Sat 2nd-Sun3rd June
Location: Cedar Flat
Duration 3-4hrs
Weather: fine
Group members: Me, Gretchen, Eckies, Zenzi, her bf, Johnny and his mate
Incidents/accidents: None
Cruisy walk up to Cedar flat on a late saturday afternoon. We started walking at 3.30pm, didn't get there till 7.30pm in the dark. Easy track to stick to and we all had head torches so it was algood. stayed in one of the older huts. The newest one was full but we got this one to ourselves. We walked up to the natural hot pools after dinner and stayed there till midnight and we were lucky to have a full moon that night too. Was really awsome. Left in the afternoon the following day finishing at 4.30pm. Fish and chips at Hokitika fish and chip shop to complete a w.e!
Location: Cedar Flat
Duration 3-4hrs
Weather: fine
Group members: Me, Gretchen, Eckies, Zenzi, her bf, Johnny and his mate
Incidents/accidents: None
Cruisy walk up to Cedar flat on a late saturday afternoon. We started walking at 3.30pm, didn't get there till 7.30pm in the dark. Easy track to stick to and we all had head torches so it was algood. stayed in one of the older huts. The newest one was full but we got this one to ourselves. We walked up to the natural hot pools after dinner and stayed there till midnight and we were lucky to have a full moon that night too. Was really awsome. Left in the afternoon the following day finishing at 4.30pm. Fish and chips at Hokitika fish and chip shop to complete a w.e!
Monday, 4 June 2012
Rock-Instruction
Date: Tues 5th- Fri 8th June 2012
Location: Greymouth Civic Centre, Charlston
Duration: 4 days
Weather: Rain, one day fine.
Instructors: Myself, Jacob Schrama, Owen Ripley, Luke Wilson
Tutors in charge: Phil Johnston
Accidents/incidents: None
The week was mainly indoors at the gym because of the bad weather but didn't go too badly considering. We had a mix of clients all week from school kids to adults. One of the days we only had three clients which worked out quite well in the end in terms of teaching. We got to teach them the basics to lead climbing which was a bit different to the other days of just sticking to top-roping. Taught how to put on harnesses correctly, how to tie a figure of 8 knot, belaying and setting up and running an abseil. We only had one day outdoors at Charlston when the weather decided to be on our side. We only managed to get through abseiling though with no climbing because we ran out of time.
Location: Greymouth Civic Centre, Charlston
Duration: 4 days
Weather: Rain, one day fine.
Instructors: Myself, Jacob Schrama, Owen Ripley, Luke Wilson
Tutors in charge: Phil Johnston
Accidents/incidents: None
The week was mainly indoors at the gym because of the bad weather but didn't go too badly considering. We had a mix of clients all week from school kids to adults. One of the days we only had three clients which worked out quite well in the end in terms of teaching. We got to teach them the basics to lead climbing which was a bit different to the other days of just sticking to top-roping. Taught how to put on harnesses correctly, how to tie a figure of 8 knot, belaying and setting up and running an abseil. We only had one day outdoors at Charlston when the weather decided to be on our side. We only managed to get through abseiling though with no climbing because we ran out of time.
Friday, 25 May 2012
Raft-Instruction
Date: Tues' 29th May-Fri 1st June
Location: Arnold River
Duration: 4 days
Grade: 2
Weather: Fine
Tutor: Zane Smith
Instructors: Myself, Jacob Schrama, Gretchen Dalzell, Owen Ripley.
Had an awsome, eventful 4 days rafting down the Arnold River taking clients from all ages. We talked about fresh water mussels that are found in 3 destinations on the Arnold. The third spot we found on the last day which was really exciting. We also had an encounter with a stranded Brown Trout that had laid its fish eggs on some rocks. We freed it back into the river and got it all on video. Played fun games with the clients and had some good times jumping off the bank. Everybody enjoyed their individual day with us taking them rafting. Good times!
Location: Arnold River
Duration: 4 days
Grade: 2
Weather: Fine
Tutor: Zane Smith
Instructors: Myself, Jacob Schrama, Gretchen Dalzell, Owen Ripley.
Had an awsome, eventful 4 days rafting down the Arnold River taking clients from all ages. We talked about fresh water mussels that are found in 3 destinations on the Arnold. The third spot we found on the last day which was really exciting. We also had an encounter with a stranded Brown Trout that had laid its fish eggs on some rocks. We freed it back into the river and got it all on video. Played fun games with the clients and had some good times jumping off the bank. Everybody enjoyed their individual day with us taking them rafting. Good times!
Rock- Personal
Date: 26th May 2012
Location: Cattle Stop Crag
Duration: 1 day
Grade: 14-18
Weather: Cold And foggy
Group members: Tom Slee, Jimmy Jarvie, Myself
Accidents/Incidents: None
Foggy, cold day on the port hills. But managed to get a good few climbs in. Cold fingers and sharp rock makes climbing hard..
Location: Cattle Stop Crag
Duration: 1 day
Grade: 14-18
Weather: Cold And foggy
Group members: Tom Slee, Jimmy Jarvie, Myself
Accidents/Incidents: None
Foggy, cold day on the port hills. But managed to get a good few climbs in. Cold fingers and sharp rock makes climbing hard..
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Rock- T2T
Date: 22nd-24th May 2012
Location: Greymouth climbing gym, Charlston, Punakaiki
Duration: 3days
Weather: Fine
Instructors: Keith riley, Paula Roberts
Incidents/Accidents: None
Went to the gym on the first day and learnt the basic set-up of abseiling if we had to set it up in the gym for the clients. Got a bit of climbing in and over view of top rope rescue.
Headed to Charlston on Wednesday. There we set up an abseil, and anchors for top roping so we have the knowledge of how to set it up & know where to place the gear for the anchors when it comes to client week.
Punakaiki on Thursday for another venue if the other two don't work out on client weeks. There we set up top rope anchors and climbing till lunch time.
Location: Greymouth climbing gym, Charlston, Punakaiki
Duration: 3days
Weather: Fine
Instructors: Keith riley, Paula Roberts
Incidents/Accidents: None
Went to the gym on the first day and learnt the basic set-up of abseiling if we had to set it up in the gym for the clients. Got a bit of climbing in and over view of top rope rescue.
Headed to Charlston on Wednesday. There we set up an abseil, and anchors for top roping so we have the knowledge of how to set it up & know where to place the gear for the anchors when it comes to client week.
Punakaiki on Thursday for another venue if the other two don't work out on client weeks. There we set up top rope anchors and climbing till lunch time.
Kayak- Instruction
Date:
Locations: Grey High Pool, Dilamns Dam, Grey river (Kiwi Corner), Lake Brunner, Lower Arahura
Duration: 4 days
Clients: Grey High School & JPII High School.
Intructors: Myself, Martijn Van Den Broeke, Jacob Shrama, Rata Lovell-Smith, Chris Harvey
Weather: Cold, drizzle.
Incidents/accidents: None
On the first two days of the week, Martijn was the TL. We had a pool session in the morning on Tuesday teaching confidence drills, how to wet exit and progressing on to rolling. The pool was really cold so we decided to cut it short and head to Dilmans Dam for a flat water session. There we taught forward paddling, sweep strokes, paddling on edge, deep water rescue, swimming with gear and throw bagging. Day 2 was the same but after the pool we went to Kiwi Corner. Flat water session at the start moving down to Taylorville. The next two days i was TL for JPII school. We had a pool session in the morning teaching the same things then went to lake brunner for flat water session. Day 4 we decided to have a river trip down the Arahura. Few swimmers but overall quite a success.
Locations: Grey High Pool, Dilamns Dam, Grey river (Kiwi Corner), Lake Brunner, Lower Arahura
Duration: 4 days
Clients: Grey High School & JPII High School.
Intructors: Myself, Martijn Van Den Broeke, Jacob Shrama, Rata Lovell-Smith, Chris Harvey
Weather: Cold, drizzle.
Incidents/accidents: None
On the first two days of the week, Martijn was the TL. We had a pool session in the morning on Tuesday teaching confidence drills, how to wet exit and progressing on to rolling. The pool was really cold so we decided to cut it short and head to Dilmans Dam for a flat water session. There we taught forward paddling, sweep strokes, paddling on edge, deep water rescue, swimming with gear and throw bagging. Day 2 was the same but after the pool we went to Kiwi Corner. Flat water session at the start moving down to Taylorville. The next two days i was TL for JPII school. We had a pool session in the morning teaching the same things then went to lake brunner for flat water session. Day 4 we decided to have a river trip down the Arahura. Few swimmers but overall quite a success.
Monday, 14 May 2012
Rock-Tech
Date: 19th-23rd March 2012
Location: Mt Somers
Group members: Gretchen, Jake, Keiran, Greg, Phil, Dan, Chris E, Chris T, Owen, Luke
Instructors: Paula, Jaime.
Climb grades: 15-20 for me.
Duration of activity: 5 days
Weather conditions: Fine/rainy
Incidents/injuries: None
Walk in for about 2hrs to an awsome, big hut. View of the climbs are behind us uphill where we will be introduced to Alpine climbing! Never done it before so was really excited. every morning we'd walk for about 1hr uphill to get to the climbs. We were introduced to Trad climbing which started off as a pritty slow progression as we were were getting into learning how to place gear again. At the end of the week we were multi-pitching on grades 15-16. Stoked. Had a wicked time.
Rock-Tech
Date: 4th-9th March 2012
Location: Wanaka-Kai Whaka Pai, Little Big Wall, Road Side
Group members: Gretchen, Jake, Keiran, Greg, Phil, Dan, Chris E, Chris T, Owen, Luke
Instructors: Paula Roberts, Jaime
Climb grades: 15-21
Duration of activity: 5 days
Weather conditions: Fine/rainy
Incidents/injuries: None
Long travel down to Wanaka for some amazing climbing! Had always wanted to go down there and climb so was really good to go with tech to get the feel of the place and where the good climbing spots are. Loved the rock, really nice to climb on and so many differnt routes.We were introduced to multi pitching on Little big Wall, how to escape the system and assisted hoists
Sunday, 13 May 2012
Raft-Tech
Date: 1st-5th April 2012
Location: Rangitata River
Group members: Chris H, Scott, Dan, Gretchen, Astro, Phil, Rata, Greg, Tui, Martijn, Jake, Sara, Owen.
Instructors: Koryn Gould, Reefton, Baz Goes.
River flow: 50-45 cumecs
River grade: 5
Duration of activity: 4 days
Weather conditions: Fine
Incidents/injuries: Coming down Rooster-Tail rapid, Reefton guiding our raft, hit the wrong line and got stuck surfing in a hole with me holding on to the outside line in between the raft and the hole.
The Rangitata was definatly a step up for us in terms off bigger volume. It doesn't require much more skills from a grade three river but requires alot more of using your voice, confidence and getting the right line. If not the consequence is alot more severe. That's where the difference between a grade 3 and grade 5 river comes in. It's really good that it has a gradual build up to the grade 5 section. We did alot of guiding, assisted flips, some rescue scenarios.
Raft -Tech
Date: 13-16/3/2012
Location: Murchison River Rescue Week, Lower Matakitaki River, Buller River.
Group members: Chris H, Scott, Dan, Gretchen, Astro, Phil, Rata, Greg, Tui, Martijn, Jake, Sara, Owen, Ben.
Instructors: Koryn Gould, Grant South, Baz Goes.
River flow: Medium
River grade: 3/3+
Duration of activity: 4 days
Weather conditions: Fine/overcast
Incidents/injuries: None
In Murch, we focused on river rescue sills. We excavated trees from the river, used lots of mechanical systems and got ourselves into many situations where we needed to put our rescue skills into action. I learnt alot from this week and enjoyed it.
Raft-Tech
Date: 2nd March 2012
Location: Arnold River
Group members: Chris H, Scott, Dan, Gretchen, Astro, Phil, Rata, Greg, Tui, Martijn, Jake, Sara, Owen, Ben.
Instructors: Koryn Gould, Reefton, Baz Goes.
River flow: Medium
River grade: 2
Duration of activity: 1 day
Weather conditions: Overcast
Incidents/injuries: None
Went to the Arnold river to notice out improvement on our skills we'd previously learnt on the Grey River.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Raft-Tech
Date: 28-1st March 2012
Location: Grey River
Duration: 3days
Weather: cloud and sun. Some rain overnight.
Grade: 3
Flow: Low to high after some rain.
Incidents: none
Key Learning: More advanced guiding on some technical grade 3
3 days on the Grey getting back in to the swing of rafting again after our hols. started off realy boney so we learnt how to use rocks to pivot off, slow us down. keep things simple etc. On the last day in the morning we got taught how to set up Z-drags and Pig rigs (mechanical advantage). Rain had fallen that night so the flow was a bit high so the rapids were bigger. So had some good variation of flows over the trip and was a good re-cap over-all.
Location: Grey River
Duration: 3days
Weather: cloud and sun. Some rain overnight.
Grade: 3
Flow: Low to high after some rain.
Incidents: none
Key Learning: More advanced guiding on some technical grade 3
3 days on the Grey getting back in to the swing of rafting again after our hols. started off realy boney so we learnt how to use rocks to pivot off, slow us down. keep things simple etc. On the last day in the morning we got taught how to set up Z-drags and Pig rigs (mechanical advantage). Rain had fallen that night so the flow was a bit high so the rapids were bigger. So had some good variation of flows over the trip and was a good re-cap over-all.
Kayak-Personal
Date: Saturday 3rd March
Location: Arahura
Duration: 1 day
Group Members: Greg, Phil, Rata, Martijn, Jacob, Logan, Harvey, Sara, Keiran,
Grade: 3
Flow: Med'
Incidents: Martijn ran cespit gorge (grade4) with Greg and Phil. He tipped over and rolled before any carnage. Other than that. Algoood.
We walked up to the put in of the Arahura. About 1hr. Dropped our boats at the grade 3 put-in and walked up to watch the others run Cespit Gorge. Once they'd ran it, the rest of us got back in out boats and ran the grade 3. pritty sweet section. Fuun day.
Location: Arahura
Duration: 1 day
Group Members: Greg, Phil, Rata, Martijn, Jacob, Logan, Harvey, Sara, Keiran,
Grade: 3
Flow: Med'
Incidents: Martijn ran cespit gorge (grade4) with Greg and Phil. He tipped over and rolled before any carnage. Other than that. Algoood.
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Kayak-Personal
Date: Wed' 22nd Feb
Location: Queenstown (Dogleg)
Group Members: Jimmy Jarvie & myself
Duration: 2.5hrs
Grade: 3-3+
Flow: Medium
Incidents: None
Me and Jimmy went for a paddle down dogleg which was a new river for me. goood fun. Trying to surf a good wave on do-little rapid. sweeet rapids towards the end that were quite big and fun. Camped at the take-out to hopefully kayak the meg the next day but it rained all night and the rivers were too high. but still a fuun paddle.
Location: Queenstown (Dogleg)
Group Members: Jimmy Jarvie & myself
Duration: 2.5hrs
Grade: 3-3+
Flow: Medium
Incidents: None
Me and Jimmy went for a paddle down dogleg which was a new river for me. goood fun. Trying to surf a good wave on do-little rapid. sweeet rapids towards the end that were quite big and fun. Camped at the take-out to hopefully kayak the meg the next day but it rained all night and the rivers were too high. but still a fuun paddle.
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Kayak-Personal
Location: Toaroha River
Weather: Humid, and warm
Duration: 2-3hrs
Group members: Greg lee, Rata, Phil P, Martijn, Luke, Sara, James Sadler, Jacob, Scott
Grade: 3
Type of river: Boulder gardens, boofs, technichal.
Flow: Low
Incidents: None
Had my best paddle on this river out of any of the other rivers i've paddled. We walked up our boats to the put-in which took 40mins. Never paddled this river before but felt really confident as five others had paddled it previously. First solid grade 3 in a while but after doing the first rapid i was quite confident. Had to scout about three of the bigger, technichal rapids. One which i was thinking about not doing as the others said they's portaged it more than once, but the flow seemed good and was a good run out if things went wrong but did it clean. No carnage, swims or any problems the whole trip which was sweet as we had 10 of us paddling. Wicked mission overall.
Monday, 6 February 2012
Kayak-Personal Hurinui, (Maori Gully)
Date: 15th January 2012
Location: Hurinui, (Maori Gully)
Duration: 1.5hrs
Group members: Nick Bishop, Martijn, Ben Searle
Grade: 3
Flow: 80 Cumecs
Incidents: None
We left Christchurch in great, sunny weather, got into the hurinui valley and the weather went southerly, cold and raining. So we had some problems with the kayaks on the roof with the wind which slowed the trip down as we were wanting to do more than one run. Got on the river quite late. Used my new mini mystic for the first time so that was a bit different but still a sweet trip.
Location: Hurinui, (Maori Gully)
Duration: 1.5hrs
Group members: Nick Bishop, Martijn, Ben Searle
Grade: 3
Flow: 80 Cumecs
Incidents: None
We left Christchurch in great, sunny weather, got into the hurinui valley and the weather went southerly, cold and raining. So we had some problems with the kayaks on the roof with the wind which slowed the trip down as we were wanting to do more than one run. Got on the river quite late. Used my new mini mystic for the first time so that was a bit different but still a sweet trip.
Raft-Personal (Work experience with OPC Peel Forest, Rangitata River)
Date: December
Duration: 3 days
Group members: Christ College High School kids
Incidents: None
Worked three days on the grade 2 section of the Rangitata with OPC Rafting. Good learning experience and all went well. Was good to see how a company works etc.
Duration: 3 days
Group members: Christ College High School kids
Incidents: None
Worked three days on the grade 2 section of the Rangitata with OPC Rafting. Good learning experience and all went well. Was good to see how a company works etc.
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