Climbers are invited to the inaugural NZ Rock Festival at Whanganui Bay on Auckland Anniversary Weekend 2011. This festival will bring together climbers, whanau and the Whanganui Bay Trustees to enhance future relationships between these key groups.As well as stacks of climbing at the premier crag in the North Island the festival will ...

There will certainly be a 3 summits trip early next year and, richard, do you ski? I'd love to tour the 3 summits in a day next winter/spring

To celebrate the life and climbs of Erica Beuzenberg and Gottlieb Braun-Elwert, the Erica-Gottlieb Trust wish to contribute a financial scholarship towards the alpine instruction of an aspiring young women climber. To apply, you must be female, under thirty years old and passionate about mountaineering. The scholarship is available to NZAC ...

Thanks Scotty, look out for instructional meetings on the safety/ survival side of things next year by Army/ SAR guys.   Also on a side note, try and make thread titles more informative in future,   Cheers 

A reminder to everyone that this tuesday at 7.00pm we will be dining at Hede, 43 Cuba St. as a big family of trampers and climbers, celebrating the year past and trampers lost, being merry and presenting the much sought after, highly anticipated Billy awards!  Come along, price will be <$20 (tbc), BYO and you may just win a prize! ...

Mangaokewa Mangaokewa first appeared to me on my local gym’s notice board as a collection of promising but ill-defined photos ofoutrageous, steep lines captioned as ‘The Paynes Ford of the North Island’. Twoyears on after an amazing effort of development, both of access and routes, the only change is the sharper definition, an abbreviated ...

This weekend, we are making the drive way north to Te Kuiti (6-7hrs) to sample the coolest rock the N. Island has to offer, limestone! Plan is for at least one car (mine) to head up thursday night, and either climb undeveloped boulders at a new spot called riverside and climb the sometimes steep, all weather, tightly bolted limestone at ...

If your membrane is degraded from too many sweaty bush tramps then you are, indeed a bit fucked. Best bet is to not sweat :) But otherwise, good jackets only wet out (don't beed, absorb!) once dirt (hydrophilic (likes moisture)) gets in the pores. As you said, a wash with grangers 30 deg (what arcteryx recommends and seems to work well) should ...

Get in contact with me if you are still interested in going, i may beable to find some other people!

Il bring my new 7 but yeh, bring as many as you can pack :) Gives us more group versatility. Bring your fav rock pro  and il bring a rack too.