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!

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..

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.

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.

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

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.