Voodoo Thursday

At TDA, Marijus Šmigelskis managed to open one of the last remaining lines. "Voodoo Thursday" 7C+, starts as for "Invisible Monsters" and moves right straight away to the start of "Fatman" and tops out as for that problem.

Martinengo and Reed

Clinton Martinengo opened two new problems at the boulders of CBD. Both problems have the same start and the same finish, except that "The Contents" 7C+, uses slopey holds on the arete, while the harder slightly eliminate version "The Handbag" 8A, does not.

Just before moving to the UK, Craig Reed managed to add a sit start to "Swim Coach" at the classroom late one the evening using a head lamp. This ups the problem significantly to 7C+.

On that FAAAAR Ridge!

Clinton Martinengo re-visited his problem "Drag Queen" at the Topside and managed to add a harder sit start, uping the grade to 7C+ and called it "Drag King". He then moved to the Lookout and opened a problem left of "Fit Birds" which he named "Great Escape" and also graded it 7C+.

Redhill's Hardest!

At Redhill, on the Vajra boulder, Emile Esterhuizen opened "Elfen Lied". The line traverses a steep face on poor slopers and crimps. Although he refuses to grade the problem, those that have tried it think it's somewhere near the 8A mark, which would make it the area's hardest problem.

Down South

Near his home in Simon's Town, Emile Esterhuizen opened two really cool problems, "Ooze smug" is a diagnal line crossing an overhanging face. Emile is always reluctant to grade anything so Marijus Šmigelskis tried the problem as well and reckons that 7C+ would be a conservative grade. Emile added "Koi Kaze" 7B, to a roof further uphill, an amazing problem with a striking resemblance to the pocketed limestone roof Chris Sharma climbs in "Rampage". And, at Redhill, at the Mushroom area, he opened another roof problem which he named "Zan Koku na Tenshi no Teeze" 7C, meaning "Cruel Angel's Thesis" in Japanese.