Saturday, March 17, 2007

Flock Hill Guide

The locations of these boulders are VERY ROUGH and ment only as a starting point for you to look for the problems. At some stage I hope to provide a map with slightly better descriptions, but for the moment please bear with me...

ClimbGradeRatingLocation
SupermanV11up and left of the trifecta boulder


ClimbGradeRatingLocation
Apollo 10V10upper bell-boulder gully
Camp AmericaV10mid bell boulder gully
Girl PowerV10
Boulders betwen Flock Hill & Dry Valley
Vapour TrailV10split apple field


ClimbGradeRatingLocation
Hipster(ss)V9left of the bell boulder
Mayan's Runnels
V9
-
Lower trifector gully
Prince Tui Teka
V9
Boulder beside hundred times slab


ClimbGradeRatingLocation
Captain Contact(ss)V8uh...captain contact gully
Captain NemoV8
Split Apple Field
CosmonautV8Split Apple Field
Disconnect Extra
V8mid-left of trifecta gully
HipsterV8left of the bell boulder
HumphV8
-
upper bell boulder gully
Ice AgeV8left of split apple field
MobeousV8
lower-left from trifector gully
Porky
V8
Mid trifector gully on this boulder
Psychic Tealady
V8upper bell boulder gully
Psycho Killer
V8
-
Beside hundred times slab
Super ShacktiV8-mid bell boulder gully
Sunset AreteV8right of bell boulder
Stoneworks
V8mid bell boulder gully
The RootsV8
mid-right bell boulder gully
The VandalV8
lower-left from trifector gully
unnamedV8upper-left split apple field on this boulder


ClimbGradeRatingLocation
Captain ContactV7uh...captain contact gully
JP's Split Apple Dyno (ss)V7lower split apple field
Sunset Showdown
V7
Bottom of trifector gully
unnamedV7mid-left of bell boulder gully
unnamedV7-split apple field on the captain nemo boulder
unnamedV7split apple field on the captain nemo boulder
unnamedV7lower bell boulder gully on the far left of this boulder
unnamedV7lower bell boulder gully on this boulder


ClimbGradeRatingLocation
Mullet Arete
V6mid-left of trifecta gully
Raven The Craft
V6
Beside hundred times slab
UnderworldV6mid-left of bell boulder gully
unnamedV6upper-right split apple field on this boulder
unnamedV6split apple field


ClimbGradeRatingLocation
Boy Power V5
Same boulder as Girl Power

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Preliminary NBS Results

While Jamie chills for a couple of days to recover from the madhouse of events that was the National Bouldering Series 2007, I thought I'd post a few of the results from the final round. Disclaimer: These results are by no means complete and may not even be totally accurate. They are composed from a vague memory that was partially distorted from drinking beer and not really paying attention at the time. I apologise in advance for any mistakes.

The day went off without any hiccups and a great time was had by all. Despite high temps and less than ideal conditions some managed to still tick off a few of the harder problems before the day came to an end. Despite Connie and Andrea "Jellybean" Barrueto both starting the comp around lunchtime, they both still crushed the opposition in the women's recreational division sending 51 problems each. The women's expert division was easily won by Mayan with Terezka coming in at second place. As for the men's expert division, Jan was thwarted from a clean sweep of the series due to local knowledge coming up trumps on the day. The category was won by, well...me, with Jan coming in at second place. Even with spending most of the day filming Stuart Kurth pulled out several V8 and V9 flashes, only put 5 climbs on his scorecard and still managed to secure third place. Nice one bro!

As for the series results, it was czeck city on the highest part of the podium as Yan and Terezka both won the overall expert Division. Liz came in second in the female expert, while Myself and James Morris placed second and third in the men's.

I'd also like to give a big shout out to Jamie, who's early mornings and weekends have been sacrificed for the past few months so we can all take part in the best outdoor competition in the country. Good job!!!