NBS 2007 Update - Website Now Live - FOOLS!

Yo yo Team

NBS 2007 is coming soon and I’m so excited I might just climb some boulders and squeal like a girl!!!!! (what is new I hear some of you say…)

2007 Website is up and live – http://www.nbs.org.nz/ – check it out! Been added to our dirty old links section as well to keep it real.

The ASG hut is also all booked for us for the Friday (2nd of Feb) and Saturday (3rd of Feb) nights. Drop me a email if you want a bunk booked for the night. It will be wikkid to get the whole crew down there for both nights. Get some tunes cranking, a few cold beers and Jenkins can do a pole dance for us (it’s the new secret training to get you strong and limber – shake it baby, you will not break it!). Choice as.

Spread the word.

Check out this hairy little local! Totally amazing that he can even see to drive his mothers car!

Boulder guides

What do we do with them?
James txt me asking if we sell them at bivouac or something, or post them on the web.
Who thinks what?
I'm dubious about selling them. Although it would be sweet to get them out there in a proffesional format it might be hardly worth it for the xtra work needed to be put in.
Might be good if we revised the entire bouldering in the north island...?

Mount clampit guide can't be promoted yet till we confirm access, which no one seems to have checked out yet. No worries though 'cause i can have a go over cristmas when i'm up. I also want to finish getting photo topos of the Pond area, so we can get that out. So, get out there guys and send as many projects in the area as poss!

Here's a thought, we could get those areas done up in a basic guide and sell them off in a budget printed version at the NBS???

wotyarekon?

Been sending a few more lines out at Rhino rocks (just down the road from hulk hogan wall). I've got lots a video footage but bugger all photos but snapped these off the reel.

This is Botox, maybe a V7, and consists of big moves under a 3m roof. I think its got some of the hardest moves I've done, (or I've got weaker which is a high possiblity!)

And Window Willows traverse, which is a.....traverse. Brilliant moves with campusing on phat slopers. I think it goes at V5. Not bad problems for shitty rock.

The 'other' pond

I gave Lewis and Jen a tour of the pond area at waitomo last night. The conditions were finally on our side after a few frustrating trip out in drissle.

We quickly warmed up on the boulders up to the right of the car (what do you call them john??), and started on the project I got spanked on, on monday. While I was moaning about how hard it was, Lewis found the key foothold and sent the stand start, followed by the sit. With my pride in tatters i decided to try...not surprisingly, pulling hard= send.
The final move is a great pull off a sloping arete and a highish foot to a horizontal break near the top of the boulder. We decided on a grade of V6, favouring the tall.
Me working the sit start.

We had a crack at the improbable dyno on the other side of the outcrop, heres Lewis on another attempt.

Of course the tour of the pond isn't complete without the classic 'Cytokine Storm' V5, Lewis came up short of the onsite, but nailed it on the second go in classic brit style, which looked a couple grades harder! I showed him to tomo stylings.

Finished up with the sloper project, yip its still desperate! We did make a bit of progress, sticking the arete, but its not over!

It'l be sick when it goes!

look out for the new guide to the pond soon, thanks to John.

New problem at the strip

Bev, Stefan and I hit the tomo yesterday for an evening sesh after work. I was hoping to tick some numbers after sunday's 'close but no cigar' attempts (it was wet...well I thought it was a good excuse!). After a quick warm up at the totem area, we headed into the bush for a crack at the project on the far end of the bellow alchemy wall.
After some ok attempts and extender pole action (ie, stefan on our shoulders), the sequence unlocked and I got through the crux, and casually topped out the high slab above a tomo (emphasis on the casual!). Giving Nightfall V8 (maybe V7, not too sure). A few more goes were had by Bev and Stefan under headlamp, but no 2nd or 3rd ascents.