kayak (sdl)

11 of June went down the crooked with Rhymie, Grace and Adrien.
The flow was higher than normal. i nervously paddled the first grade 3 rapid.
I borrowed a friends rpm max, was a bit big and felt weird after my normal boat.but got the hang of it.
no problems, was different paddling with the second years they did more  technical moves witch was good for me to follow. Rhymie and I ran the shuttle, only took us 35 min to get back to the girls.

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.

kayak (sdl)

Saturday the 4 of June went down the Crooked river.it was just high enough to do the grade three rapid at the put in so few of us gave it a go.was cool.
weather was good.river was cold as usual.
had a bit of trouble finding the farmer for the key to his gate. the farmers brother was there, i asked him and he went out to the truck but froze up because he had parkinsons and hadn't taken his pills yet.i helped him to the door but he couldn't get any further. Chris had found the key and came to get me.Chris got the guys pills then we carried him inside and sat him on his chair,the pills kicked in prity quick.He was quite great full.
i took my camera and got some cool footage..

        This is me doing a whoopy and a role

This is me doing the seal launch.

kayak (sdl)

Monday 6th of June. got 7 of the orecers together and went down the Miltown gorge.
It was low to normal flow, the features were a bit smaler than when we went with tec ,but still fun to play around in.

Robbie Williams.

started of a nice sunny day but ended up drisiling the last half of the river.
We had a bit of a upset doing the shutle, two of the boys ran back to get the vans but they had never done it befor.We ended up waiting 3 hours befor they came back.in this time we had caled a Dan to pick us up and do the shutle,hoping the boys wernt injured or realy lost.the boys came back as Dan came to pick up up for the shutle.Dan brang towls and warm raro for us to warm up. every think worked out fine in the end but could have been alot worse.
I did get some cool fotos of the crew too...

Grace Slee

Martiln Vandenbroeke

Robbie Wiliams

Chris harvey

river crossing(tec)

Went out to the arahura river on the 10/3.there was allot of swimming.which was good too. was rather cold but we had our wetsuits on.
gave us a good chance to gauge how hard it is to cross,even when looks shallow.
also held up a stick to simulate a strainer, worked real well.was hard to get over(much eazyer to avoid)

rock (sdl)

Sunday 24th went up to wanaka,met Mikey had 3 lead climbers,was a bit windy but not too bad.met astro that night.stayed the night in my van.then spent all Monday climbing.was a beautifully sunny day.all climbers were lead, astro did real well, since she hadn't done much. we tout her to absail down after a lead all went well. since it was a public holiday there was allot of climbers out.though this was fine since there was so many climbers out there. got some cool photos too...

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.