New Redhill Moderates

At Redhill, Edvinas Šmigelskis established 3 more problems on the "Flying Wombat" boulder. First he managed to grab the first ascent of a very technical traverse from Emile and Marijus, which he called "Rolling Stones" 7B+. He then added two slightly eliminate problems on the prow, "Usoske" 7A+, and "The World is Out to Get Me" 7B+.

Emile Esterhuizen and Edvinas also opened a few more problems on a few newly discovered boulders at the Vanilla Sky area. Emile opened a cool roof problem, "Rodin" at about 6C+ and Edvinas opened the awesome "Blackjack" 7A, and "9mm" 6C+ as well as a 6C highball called "Starship Enterprise".

Mushroom Projects Sent!

Visiting american climber Zach Levitt spent a day at Redhill and managed to open one of the projects at the Mushroom area. "Wild Wild West" is a two move problem just left of Anarchy. The problem originally received a grade of 7C+, but after a few fast repeats by more climbers, 7B seems to be more accurate.

A few meters away, Edvinas Šmigelskis managed to open the long standing sitstart project to "Flaming Pig". This currently makes it one of the hardest problems at the Mushroom area, graded at 7C.

Vajra additions

Emile Esterhuizen opened a few more problems at Redhill, near the Vajra boulder. He added a harder finnish to "Dark Lord Sharon", naming it "Shark Lord Darren", this ups the grade to 7B. He also did a low sit start to Silas Kruger's problem "Schwann Ping" 7A, now somewhat harder, and then opened his new project, calling it "The Hobbit" and it receives a grade of 7C. Marijus Šmigelskis repeated the problems shortly after, confirming the grades.

Emile on "The Hobbit"

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+.