raft ( tec )

On the 1st of april i went to rangatata rafts. we went down the river everyday, taking turns guiding down the rapids and doing the safety talks.
When we got there the river was at around 50 cumex and buy thursday it had droped to around 45. rangatata rafts go down it right up to 200 cumex.
the weather was good as every day. in the mornings there was a cool mist along the river but burned off by around 10 to a beautiful day

sea kayaking (tec)

10 day sea kayaking trip  from the 15 to the 24th of august.
the first day was just traveling to the Able Tasman. the next 3 and a half days we spent paddling up and back down the Able Tasman.We then went over to nelson were we went out and got some freshes for the next 5 days . we then camped out at the Marlborough sounds, and spent the next 4 days paddling up around there. and on the last day we just drove back.
the weather was as good as we could have hoped for.witch made the experience even better.
up the Able Tasman we saw cub seals, soo cute haha. and in the Marlborough sounds we saw a massive boil up seals fish dolphins and birds all going crazy around us. we say the same set of dolphins on the last day too. i bought my hand line and caught around 7 fish,3 blue cod witch 2 were big enough to take.so i had 2 and Brent got 3, we took them on the beach were the others had muscles. Brent filleted his fish and taught me how then i did mine... first time ever doing it,3 near perfect filet's and one av. i was stoked as.
This trip for me had alot of ups and downs but i think that that is what made it such an amazing trip. oh and the 2 instructors Brent(bulet or boyze) and nick(taz) were soo much fun and really made the trip that much better great guys and great instructors.

rock (tec)

On the 19 drove to mt summers and walked up to the pinnicals hut. 20th to the 22nd we climbed. first day we just did bolted climbs but on the next two days it was all on trad. the weather was good most of the time. we walked out on Friday the 23rd and drove back.

It was another good as week of climbing rock in beautiful places. and learning lots of cause.

                                         

rafting(tec)

Last week from the 27 to 30th we had raft it was a lot of fun. on Tuesday we went to lake Brunner to learn some paddle strokes and what to do it the raft flips then it was off to the Arnold. it was rather low today. we went down taking turns at guiding.our tauter today was Koran i was finding it hard to get the hang of it but was good start. Wednesday we had a short classroom session then went to the Arnold again and did much the same stuff, I felt I went allot better.our tauter today was Southey .Thursday was cool day we went to the grey river (gentle Annie section).our tauter today was Phil Jonson. I went shit couldn't catch many of the Eddy's Phil told me to get so I was disappointed with this day.and on Friday we went back to the Arnold and it was real low but made for some good rock dodging.we had Southey again today, I went alright but i think i need more time on the guide stick to get the hang of it. hopefully next week I get better I plan to do raft next year so want to get the hang of it.

Mountain (tec)

on the 20 of September we climbed up mt Avalanche in Arthur's pass.
we left grey mouth at 7 30 am.And started walking at 945am we had lunch 3/4 of the way up. it is 1833m to the top over 4-5 kms. it took us 4 hours to get up  and around 2 30 to get down again. it was a beautiful sunny day with barley a breeze of wind, great day out. on the way up and down we were also being quizzed on avalanches and mountain travel.

Mountain (tec)

went to temple basin on the 9th to the 12th of august.
we lernt basic mountain skills including crampon walking(sound dumb but there is alot of different was to utilise the crampon and use mininal energy) avalanch prediction and rescue, multi pitching(including different types of anchurs) , ridge travel and offen the one most people get wrong decenting.
the fist two nights we stayed in the lodge on the mountain and on the last night we made snow caves witch was vey cool... cold. was sill warmer than out in the wind.
no epics on this trip. i took my board up got about 45 min until i couldnt see the jump, was still fun.

rock climbing (tec)

12 of June I took a trip out to castle hill for a day of bouldering with Adrien, Grace, Nick (Smegal) and Kat.
We left grey and it was pissing down but over the hill it was beautiful blue sky's. We got there and got climbing around 12 30 bouldered till 3 30. Was a great day  Smegal knew allot of climbs so he showed me around. I was working on a climb was having real troubler, Smegal showed me how to do it and i eventually got it it was cool as. And it turned out to be a V4 so was real stoked.
Got back from world class bouldering,castle hill at 6  flat mates cooked stir-fry on rice. now thats a good day.

ice climbing (tec)

Went down to Franz Josef glacier for 3 days of ice climbing.
the first day we drove down,walked up the glacier getting used to the crampons and did some basic climbing skills.
second day had a full day of building anchors and ice climbing.
last day went up learned the 'V' anchor and climbed on these.

 Toddy

Brent

                Robbie Williams

                                     Me with Robbie in my glasses

was great weather all three days and a cool as experience.

rock week 2 (tec)

The first day we went over the pass to the world renowned castle hill for bouldering. it took around 2 hours to get there so we only had 3-4 hours on the rock,witch is enough if your hard out bouldering.its all line stone so the holds were smears and finger pockets.i liked this for my hand holds but found it real hard to keep my feet on.
day two and three we went to Charleston and did allot of setting up anchors top rope rescue.got a few climbs in,me and Kerrin also practiced lead climbing natural pro with a top rope as safety.
on the Friday we went out to Punekaiki and did some sweet as lead climbing and abseiling down. was real good i had a climb that pushed me but the other climbs were good for sum of the less experienced climbers.

another good week of learning.

kayaking week two(tec)

on the 15march to the 19 march my group did another week of kayaking.alot of this week was based on rescue.we did a morning in the pool to critec our role,T rescue,H rescue and get introduced on how to do a deep water rescue. that day and Thursday we did all of this out on the river(Arnold). on Friday we went to the ardahuda,we put in at the section above the red shed.a new run for all the students.this day was about working in small groups and navigating our way safely down the river.we had an unexpected swimmer,witch was fun because we got to put the new rescue techniques into action. all in all another great week on the water learning lots.

kayaking week one(tec)

From the first to the forth of march my group at tec started our first week of kayaking. the first few days we were in the pool and on flat water.this was good for everyone to learn hoe to role.i learn to role on both sides but couldn't get the hand role. the next couple days we got to go out on the rivers.the first river we went on was the grey, it was good to get out there though there was little rapids we practiced our rolling in moving water,river navigation and getting in and out of eddies.we also went on the adahuta for half a day there was i big buffer wave close to the rocks with a eddie on the outer side.i tried a couple times to get to it on my 2nd try i flipped,tyred to role couple times(couldn't),so banged on my boat and waited hoping someone would T rescue me but didn't have enough time.yep i swam.the next day we got to go out to the Arnold.this was heps of fun.we practiced the same stuff again but this time there was alot of eddies in the middle of the river,boules and wave that we had a go at riding.there was a cool buffer wave,i rode it a couple times but on last try a flipped couldn't role,panicked and swam,i was real annoyed for not holding on for longer and trying again.
still had some good runs and learnt alot cant wait to go again!

rock climbing at charlston(tech)

my first week of rockclimbing with tpp
this started at the indoor wall in greymouth.this was a chance to find out what level we are at and a chance to get back in to in.some of us also got a chance to do some lead climbing.
the next day we went out to charlston to learn about climbing, using natural pro gear and setting up anchors for top rope climbing. also worked on our technique.
it was a real cool climbing right beside the waves crashing against the rocks.
we camped for 2 nights was only a 15 min walk to the rock.
most of the climbs that we set up were not much of a challenge for me but was a good start for some of the other students that hadn't done much rock climbing.
on the last day it was raining so we went back to greymouth,and went on the indoor wall.at indoor wall we worked on abseiling. on my last climb i tried leadclimbing the big over hang which went onto the roof,didn't make it all the way but made it 2 clips further than the first day. this would have been one of the highlights of my week, used up all my my energy but was worth it.