Redhill Boulder Day 2005

The Redhill Boulder Day went pretty well and had a decent turnout despite the inaccurate weather reports. Top spot in the mens category went to Silas Kruger and the womens category was dominated by Kirsti Meyer. Thanks to City Rock, SA Mountain Magazine and the Esterhuizens for sponsoring the prizes.

The Destroyer of Worlds

Emile Esterhuizen has opened the lastest Redhill testpeice at the Vanilla Sky area on the Starship Enterprise boulder. "The Destroyer of Worlds" 7C+ climbs a small roof to a crux on the lip and onto a blank slab.

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"