Begehungen in Kura Tāwhiti / Castle Hill Basin haben Beta

To the right and back of the letter box boulder, huge slopey pockety slab.

Mantle the no. 15 on map 11. Pretty good!

First properly awkward Castle Hill mantle. My right gluteal kinda hurt afterwards from so much pressing down with the heel!

Very nice and unique! Feels like you´re a kid climbing on something that´s not rock!

Felt like a soft V3 until I got to the mantle

I´m talking about the one to the right of The Element V5, one throw to big slopey pocket+mantle. Last problem of the day!

My best flash and beautiful ascent on cool pockets! Did the sit start. Techy mantle at the end, perfect setting with Nick and Maria!

I´m talking about the one that looks like Atari where you slap on either side up, the stand start (sit start´s V6). Took my first biggish fall bouldering here! Pretty fun V3!

I´m talking about the one with the big pocket where you smear to turn your hands round to mantle, pretty good!

Again, wet pockets, sketchier mantle! This is on the submarine boulder, dunno if this is the right entry...

First climb of our mega trip! Also my first boulder in NZ and Castle Hill. Wet pockets, slick limestone, but pretty solid and fun! Like the style. Even though it´s winter, I was on my t-shirt all day because of the sun, very agreeable. Dunno if this is the right entry, I mean it to be the pockety V2 in the submarine boulder...

Scary in the wind, but fun.

Was ok.

Super fun beginners climb.

Cool slab. Had quite a few goes before it went.

Really interesting footwork

Great climbing.

Some sensible bolting and great slab

grunt up. V3?

an excellent highstep/balance crux move leads to a highball finish

great climbing with one committing smear move

high with one tricky section (graded 16 in the new Castle Hill guide and has several bolts)

slippery ramp

tough bridging, crimping, smearing and laybacking up classy line

technical sidepulling and smearing

worth the 3 stars

nice slab

smear up blank groove

a Castle Hill special with contortions and friction moves up glassy blank pod. Sick bro

nice slab problem. Really V4(?), but there is a 50 feet drop just L of the climb which you could fall down if you came off it. x2

sneaky smearing

technical and goey

awkward top out

same start then L to high finish

tricky start to sustained face climbing on shallow pockets

High and scary... I'm getting too old for this

weird moves into scoop

awkward move high up

Awesome! I found it soft for castle hill V8, considering i couldn't do a bunch of the 7's and 6's? but maybe it's my style.

rightwards up slab

rock-up on pockets

rock-over and L up slab

tricky arete