Remarkables Traverse

For Simon and Pip's wedding in Feb lots of people came back to town
They came through Queenstown on Holiday and a group of us all went out to do the Remarkables Traverse.
Team: Bruce hasler ( guide) Mick heli skier not climber, AD Kayaker not climber, Frog( guide) , Simon, Aaron and I who are all climbers.
The guides teamed up with the non climbers and much to our suprise they were really fast and confident.
There was cloud on the Mountain tops but it was a nice sunny day otherwise

Easy ledges
Telecom tower( or weather station) If you go here you will need to rap off the cliff- most people head to the notch and miss this Peak


Simon on the technical crux( easily avoidable)


Me up in the clouds but still smiling


Lunch on Single cone summit( very different to Winter!)
we meet 2 tasmanians, a german , and Chris Prudden up there- a very popular spot


The normal descent would be the couloir but rather than get wet feet in the snow or get our rope out we scrambled down the North ridge. 95% walking Hands on for the rest.I was wearing 5 10 approach shoes which are nice and gripy though

A fantastic day. We were back at the pub sharing a few drinks in the Sun mid afternoon

Routeburn Rescue

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3356768/Injured-tramper-lucky-to-be-seen-after-falling-10m-into-rocky-ravine

Aaron had another rescue The article isn't right on the timing and The winch wasn't long enough so they set up Rope system hauling.

Vinyard concert series

We went to The Millbrook concert with Boh Runga, Che Fu, Bic Runga, Dave Dobbin, and Tim Finn. Great to hear a few Kiwi classics.
Saw lots of people there including the Dee's when they weren't on the bouncy castle.

Amalie and Maryanne Dee

We had a few wines in the last of the evening sun and even Kaitlyn tried to get in on the Boozy action at her first ever concert



The stage, Teresa and Kaitlyn. She has a cool dance move ..The washing machine!

Tooleys

our friends Stu and Teresa came to visit.

Riverside. Aaron climbing we also climbed Far side, Alcove,Falcon steep at Cutting
We spent a weekend climbing in Wanaka with them and their darling daughter Kaitlyn( Aaron's special friend)

Martin/Maurice visit

dan and Stacey came to visit ...Yay.
Unfortunately we had had the flu and were really low energy and boring,. managed a small bike ride and Burgers at the beach but that was about it for the week. They introduced us to their little friend Turtle

South Wye again

We have spent alot of this year exploring around South Wye looking for good lines, and started one.

Aaron on Pitch one of our new route...Easy( 16ish) but run out at the top. 40m

We also enjoyed the peace and quiet up there and did a bit of relaxing in the sun

The lovely view over our feet as we lie relaxing just in front of the bivvy

More photo's

wedding

Honeymoon