Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Grass Roots Fundraiser Bouldering Event - Jan 26th

http://www.facebook.com/pages/LM-Photography/217302638375218The quarry is open again, now called the AGS Rockwall and on January the 26th a fundraising boulder comp was held at Extreme Edge, Panmure. The comp consisted off 30 odd boulder problems worth varying points based on the difficultly and  two hours to complete as many as possible. I ended up with three problems I couldn't complete, one in the UV cave that was crazy hard, a real reachy problem that i kept peeling off on the last hold and a real staunch slopey problem that Zane managed to get with only one minute remaining meaning I ended up with second.

If you are interested in climbing at the quarry you now have to be registered, (register here: http://www.aucklandclimber.org.nz/quarry.html) when you register you will receive a tag which must be worn while climbing at the quarry. All donations go towards keeping the crag open, if your interested in reading about why the crag was shut and how it got reopened read this page: http://www.mojozone.co.nz/forum/mt-eden-quarry-1



Monday, 10 January 2011

Kick things off


Well I finally decided that it's time to get a blog up and start documenting my climbing. Just to kick things off, hi I'm Daniel Krippner and I've been climbing for about 3 and a half years, this year I am starting a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Waikato University. I was awarded the Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship so that I can keep climbing while I'm at university provided I can keep up my grades, extend myself with leadership opportunities and keep climbing at a high level. In the last couple months I also created an account on www.8a.nu to keep track of my climbing outdoors. The next few posts on here will just be about whats already happened this year so far.