Aicken Blimit traverse- ACR Training day

Changed due to WX in Arthurs Pass

Saturday Rock climb at Holmes Bay on the Bank Peninsula.

Text me 0274 940 250 if you keen to make it or register at the bottom of this.

We leave around 7.30am sat morning and take Police Van to site from Hornby.

cheers

jason

ACR Training day- Aicken Blimit traverse

When: This friday night and for Saturday morning start early.

Location: Arthurs Pass

Accom: Stay at NZAC club hut friday night

Transport: We have police Van ready seats 8 and I can take my car if needed for overflow to 13 total

Bring your lightweight kit and dayout kit, as we travel light and climb fast good training for some of the newer crew...

Ascend Mt Aicken. From the summit, the long tortuous ridge that encloses the Punchbowl Falls Creek catchment is visible. Continue along this ridge. Most obstacles tend to be gendarmes, being generally bypassed on one or other side (mostly Punchbowl Creek side). Towards Blimit the ridge rock rises in 30°–60° slabs, some with extreme exposure. Protection is sparse, but the climbing is easy (Grades 12–14). This buttress can be avoided by sidling out under its southern flank and ascending a narrow, loose gully to join the South Ridge. Descend to Bill’s Basin.

details here: http://climbnz.org.nz/nz/si/arthurs-pass/blimit/aicken%E2%80%93blimit-traverse