At last! climbing outdoors again. Headed off on Friday night (Warick & Aroha, Michelle, Luke and I) up to Nelson (via a fun swim on the way up ;) And stayed that night with Joe and Andrea, friends of Michelles.
Next morn headed off to Paynes Ford – one of the two main sport climbing crags on the South Island. It’s quite nice limestone. Did 11 routes in total, led most of them – one 19, many 18s,17s and 16s. Good fun – this pic me on Hula Yula (19). Though I think I might have cheated.
But a great days climbing. We were really lucky with the weather.. it was supposed to be a bad weekend with a front coming up in, but the part of the S.Island we were in often seems to escape – and it did this time.
Sat eve went to The Mussel Inn for dinner. It was quite yum, and the 10% beer I was drinking went down well too. It had some pretty excellent signs too – I thought.
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Sunday – headed off climbing at the sea cliffs, was great to be back climbing over the sea again. I definitly miss climbing at gola on the west coast of Ireland. Think that has to be one of my favourite places… even if it is all scary trad climbing!
This pic of Michelle on Woosh(18) I think.
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So yes, a great weekend, quite a long way to go – but some quality climbing, twas fun. So Thanks to: L->R (Joe,Aroha,Luke and Warick) (Andrea and Michelle) for a great time.. hopefully won’t be too long before the next trip!
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