Hey Hey Everybody, rock craft 2 is coming to town!!Well by coming to town, i mean we are leaving town to go on rock craft... We will be going to a exotic location called Wharepapa south, which is about an hour or so north of taupo, this will be happening on ANZAC weekend.  vague plan is to drive somewhere halfway on thursday night, camp, drive a ...

Hey guys, Glenn Pennycook is offering a couple of free alpine courses again this year: 5-6 July (basic rope) and 12-13 July (advanced). See his website here for more details. I'd highly recommend going on his basic climbing with ropes course, I did it last year and its what really got me into it! He has a great no-nonsense way of teaching ...

Make You Think Climbing Mt. Lloyd & Mt. Cran Jan. 2008   After waiting for nearly a day for the rain to clear, Jeremy and I finally set off up Freds Creek with ropes, slings, a full rack, ice axes, crampons, 6 days worth of food, a Microlight tent fly, half a toothbrush and a spoon. An hour later darkness fell, so we pitched the fly ...

Howdy all, Just thought I'd let everyone know that there's a climbing trip going on heading somewhere up the North Island. The ultimate destination is Wharepapa and Waipapa but may include stops at almost any of the North Island Crags including: Ruapehu, Whanganui Bay, Kinloch or Karakara Bay or some combination of them. Nothing is ...

And i shall be headed to Wharepapa, which is a really cool climbing place about 6 hours drive away... will be there (or some other rock climbing area in the central north island) for the 5? days that us uni students  get off :D Not too sure how much space will be in the cars, im not even sure who is coming who has a car... but there should be a ...

Yeah, swimming around there is a bit dodgy, especially on the southern edge where it looks real dangerous, but apparently up the east shore on the inside of the habour (north of the rock) its possible to go swimming. In fact Yannick went for a refreshing skinny drip after the bouldering competition! I'm not sure about the river down by the rocks, ...

Howdy all, Thought I might let those who don't know know what going on this Saturday. Its the first Rock Craft trip of the year and we're heading to a secluded bouldering wonderland called Baring Head. Its about 40 minute drive around the habour + 15min walk along the beach to get there. It'll cost you nothing but $5 to cover petrol for your ...

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Hey guys, hopefully you've all recovered from freshers and are keen for more adventures! Come along to the meeting tonight (Tuesday 7.30 pm, student union building) to find out about rockcraft and the party, learn how to join and use the website forums, and see a slideshow of some of our summer adventures climbing and tramping in the southern ...

Yep no problemos - I was thinking of leaving from town around 10am or so anyway so could you meet up at uni shortly after that? For anyone else interested in coming we should have 2 cars leaving at 10ish on Saturday from Hunter Carpark (behind big brick building at Vic Uni Kelburn Campus). Let me know though so we can make sure theres enough ...