Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Duntrooooooooon!!!!!!

Right, I got some photos from the world class climbing destination of duntroon!
For those of you who havent been there, dont get to excited....unless..... you want to climb some short, steep as, burly as, sport routes. And if your only alternative is long beach (poo to that!).
The mid grade steep routes are actually rather stella. The one below, "Dr with finger up his Arse" (26), I havent sent yet but its kinda fun with a 2bolt slopey traverse into the crux which I'm flailing at. I dont think this is how its done. Its a shitty side pull!

Lisa is on one of the best routes at sin city, a 3star 20m 21 called 'Tease the dragon", Big holds and actually really steep and sustained.

Seems to be fresh bouldering potential across the valley from the main climbing, its vaguely mentioned in the old guide book.
We've sent about a dozen new problems, of which most are real shit hot. The area is called Rhino rocks. This may have been a repeat, but it rocks, with powerfull pocket pulling.



The new bouldering area "Rhino rocks" is on the boulders along the base of the chossy crag



No this isn't castle hill. .....Elephant rocks for some easy toproping.


I'll try to score some more bouldering photos when I can convince more people to actually come out to duntroon.....hmmm.....sounds like the airstrip development days.....

Ciao

4 Comments:

Blogger General Rodriquez said...

Nice one John! Great to see ya cranking!

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8:00 AM  
Blogger james said...

yea man looks awesome!i tryed to convince my mates yesterday to stop there cause we had to take the pig route out of wanaka, they wern't having a bar of it.mite be keen for a weekend down there next term

8:09 AM  
Blogger newby said...

What did you get up to in wanaka?
Surely its still to fingernumbing over there?

11:30 AM  
Blogger james said...

boarding man!what else.it was snowing in town.The rock looks awesome though!you checked out some of the boulders around the car park?

11:41 AM  

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