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[TR] Long Beach, New Zealand- Sunny Rock 2/18/2006


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Climb: Long Beach, New Zealand-Sunny Rock

 

Date of Climb: 2/18/2006

 

Trip Report:

Hello everyone, hope the cold weather is making for some good ice conditions! I miss the good climbing partners from the NW, but New Zealand has been sunny and friendly. I made it out to a beach-side cliff yesterday with a local fellow for a day of climbing around. The spot (Long Beach) is about 20 miles from my school/town in Dunedin. The grades system was a bit hard to get used to, but rock is rock the world over, and offwidths are hard everywhere too!

 

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Climbing was interrupted by swimming with nearby seals in the warm waves.

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I ran into a fellow on the beach who snagged a belay or too, and it turns out he's from WA. Funny to get into a big conversation about Thin Fingers and Sagitarius with a complete stranger while on a beach in New Zealand.

 

 

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...then it was off to French lessons with Colin and Ken. yellaf.gif

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Well, I'll keep my eye out for both of those things guys.

 

The handcrack on the right, that splits the shade/sun

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was evidentally led by jamming sticks into the cracks and slinging them. It's rated 20/.10c and sorta a local benchmark. Before it was climbed, someone fell from 12 meters up, ripped out their "firewood pro" and landed in the sand but walked away. hellno3d.gifhellno3d.gif

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