The Executioner

At Ikes Boulder in Cecillia Forest, Clinton Martinengo made a fast first ascent of the "The Executioner" 7C+. Clinton almost sent the problem in the last 20 minutes of daylight in one evening session, but kept missing the finishing hold and had to come back the next day for the send. The name refers to the hard dyno that one must execute in order to do the problem, which is then followed by a tricky mantle top out.

Locals Rocklands Repeats

Rocklands saw a lot of local action this past winter season. Here are a few high-lights:

Arjan de Kock spent most of his winter bouldering and managed an impressive ticklist with the second South African ascent of "Tea with Elmarie" 8A+ as well as sends of "Pendragon", "No Late Tenders" both 8A and the rarely repeated sit start to "Question of Balance" called "A Matter of Power" 7C+.

Arjan on "Pendragon"

 Justin Hawkins sent his first 8B "Armed Response" (with "Leopard Cave" now at 8A+) and flashed "Black Spider" 7C.

Ben Harper made a fast repeat of "No Late Tenders" 8A and Shaun Jansa sent the impressive dyno "Black Velvet" 8A. Marijus Šmigelskis also managed to repeat "Tea with Elmarie" 8A+ for his first of the grade.

Marijus on "Tea with Elmarie"

Chaos

Emile Esterhuizen has opened the much tried "Chaos" project at the Mushroom area at Redhill. He discovered a new sequence for the crux move, by moving slightly more right than originally intended and the problem now goes at around 7C/7C+

Roudnitska

At the newly discovered "Outer Limits" area at Redhill, Emile Esterhuizen opened "Roudnitska", similar to a shorter version of "Elfen Lied". The problem took Emile four days of attempts and is about 7C/7C+.

The Exceptionals

In Rocklands, Edvinas Šmigelskis established a new problem at the Roadside area, on the "Black Labour" boulder (just above the "Black Eagle" boulder). "The Exceptionals" 7C+ starts as for "Segregation" (the 7C dyno), but then does a big move left to a small crimp, and then climbs straight up to top out from there.