South Wye

We have been busy developing a new climbing area in Queenstown with our friend Tony. it is about 2 hrs walk up hill to the rock wall which is 200m high. so far we have walked along the half way ledge and abseiled down place bolts to climb back up. we have done 2 new routes.
One is called Big day out and is 4 pitches long the difficulty grades are 20,21,16,18. the hard bits are short. The other one is called 2 steps ahead of the pack and is 2 pitches long. grade 20,24 this is consistently hard.
The cliff is huge so there are a lot more climbs to do as well as the top half above what we have done so it should keep us buy for many weekends to come. we have made a rock bivvy there so have somewhere nice and sheltered to sleep. We will probably camp up there for the first time next weekend.
On a personal note my brother John is going to have his first baby( well actually Steph is) and I am super excited about becoming an aunty. Love you too Holly and Patrick.

Photos
1) our bivvy cave
2) Sally climbing at South Wye
3) Tony Burnell
4) Aaron

We had a lovely weekend up in Canterbury

Aaron flew up after work on Friday night and we went to Curators for a nice meal.
The following morning we Wandered around the shops and had brunch in Christchurch city.
That after noon we meet Simon out at Castle Hill for some bouldering( thanks for the photo's Simon)
We got tired out on the first 3 boulders we got to!
A night in Methven then of to Hanging rock near Pleasant point ( great icecream shop). Hanging rockkhas beautiful views and is a really nice place to visit. The climbing was quite hard though! maybe because the holds are very open compared to our local rock.
All in all a fantastic weekend

Photo's
1) Aaron at castle hill
2) Sally at Castle hill
3) Aaron at Hanging rock on Mad gesture 19?