We are excited to announce that we are officially going digital!
From now on, our memberships will be run through the Hivepass App. Just download the Hivepass App on your smart phone and register as a member with the Queenstown Climbing Club. It’s as easy as that!
With Hivepass, you will have your own digital membership card that you can show off to access many of the local partner deals on offer to QCC members! Not only that but there is an awesome newsfeed feature that will enable us to keep you up to date on all the exciting club news and events! There is even an inspiration section if you’re looking for ideas for your next adventure.
No more forgetting your membership card or accidentally leaving it in a pocket and running it through the washing machine, it now all on your phone!
No smart phone? No problem! There is an option for signing up via the web for those of you without smart phones.
To download the Hivepass App and register as a member, please head to https://get.hivepass.app/
No climbing in level 3
Unfortunately, climbing, mountaineering and backcountry snowsports are not allowed according to official government advice.
Please refrain from going to crags and bouldering locations, even local ones.
We are really stressing this so that there is no bad press against climbing and climbers. If anyone is noticed not respecting these rules, it could impact our relationship with local landowners and bodies (e.g DOC, QE2).
Thank you everyone for holding tight...a bit of pain for a long term gain!
2019 Queenstown Indoor Bouldering Series
2019 Queenstown Indoor Bouldering Series at Wakatipu High School
Over 50 people turned up at the inaugural Queenstown Indoor Bouldering Series last Saturday to compete or support climbers at the school bouldering wall.
Participants were as young as 10 years old and came as far as from Milford Sound (!), Te Anau, Invercargill, Wanaka, Mossburn and from primary schools around Queenstown and of course there was a strong keen contingent from the high school and students from Wanaka and Invercargill.
Qualifying climbs allowed climbers to warm up on easy routes and to tackle much harder and more technical climbs.
2019 Gorge Road Maintenance - Magnum Wall
2019 Gorge Road Maintenance - Magnum Wall
During the 2018/19 summer the QCC removed old expansion bolts at Magnum Wall and changed to more secure glue-in anchors, better suited to the rock at this location.
Thanks so much to the effort put in by Diego, Wulf, Bill and Guillaume in researching the best options and completing this maintenance project.
2019 Queenstown Climbing Club Festival
Another great celebration of where we live with over 40 club members and guests taking part over 3 days from the 1st to the 3rd of March.
Day One - A movie evening at the Wakatipu High School theatre
Day Two - XWye Climbing Marathon on Saturday
Day Three - The weekend finished with an indoor speed climbing competition
Lots of fun and a great and chillax atmosphere!
2019 AGM - Queenstown Climbing Club
August 2019 - 6.30pm Queenstown Events Centre - Date TBC
Agenda
A look back on the last year
Presidents Update
Review Club Accounts
Youth Development
Club Events
Community and Enviromental Projects
Elect new committee
Southern Lakes Access Meeting - All Welcome
A meeting to discuss maintaining and improving access to the backcountry.
Coronet Peak
The Remarkables
Pisa Range
Cardrona / Soho Basin
Tuesday 25 August.
1930 at Wakatipu Senior Citizens Association rooms.
10 Memorial St, behind Fluid Design.
AGM 2015
A massive thank you to everyone that came along to our AGM last night. Great to see some new faces.
All of the existing committee were stood down and re-elected to their positions. We also welcomed two new faces to the committee, Leah as Secretary and Paul Cunningham as Youth Development Officer. Make sure to pat them on the back next time you see them!
Thanks to Adela for the presentation of financial statements. It's good to see that the Club is in a healthy financial position. This started a great discussion about what uses the Club should put our funds toward, over and above the programme of events that we have planned. Have a look at the Club's objectives and get in touch with us about your ideas!
Finally, we had a great little slideshow from Steve Skelton about the FWA of the South Face of Mt Suter. This ascent was nominated for a Piolet d'Or and we are super proud to have had a Club member in the frame for the most illustrious prize in mountaineering.
X-Wye 2015
X-Wye, Queenstown's Best Rock Climbing Festival - 24-25 January 2015 @ Wye Creek
Website Update
Please excuse us as the website is updated over the next while...it's been a long time coming, but it's coming....
Youth Climbing Camp in Mount Cook : 28th Feb - 1st March '14
The Queenstown Climbing Club is aiming to take young climbers (from 7 to 18) to climb on Sebastopol Bluffs from the 28th of February to the 2nd of March. Spread the words about this cool event and let us know if you know any youngsters interested and we will email them an application form :-)
Small Planet...Big Prizes!
Small Planet have offered up some amazing prizes for this years X-Wye. The prizes are not yet confirmed but insider knowledge has leaked a pic of what might be available to the lucky competitors of saturdays events. Drop in and see the friendly team for any bits you may need before the event or just for a friendly chin wag about where you've been on the rock!
Visit Small Planet Here
X-Wye Program and Application Form 2014
Hi Folks, We're having a few teething problems with the website so we've reposted this information, and the link to the programme and application form. Who knows, maybe you'll have to bring your winter climing gear if the snow keeps coming ;-)
X-Wye, Queenstown's Best Rock Climbing Festival - 24/25/26th January 2014 @ The Find,QT & Wye Creek
This year we are kicking the festival off with a "Short Film" festival sponsored by SteepEdge, followed by Climbing clinics with the best local guides, Climbing contests in the Creek, Food & Prizes at "The Find" and of course our signature event, the awesome, "X-Wye Climbing Marathon"!
The marathon is a fun team event (teams of 2 to 3 climbers) where people try to climb as many routes as possible. Routes are worth so many points depending on location, height, difficulty. You can score more points if you wear fancy dress and there will be some other more fun ways to score more points on the day. Anyways really good fun! Then we will celebrate at The Find, have a feed and present winners (...and non winners) with some great awards & prizes!
Sign up here by downloading the registration forms and emailing your completed forms back to us at queenstownclimbing@gmail.com
Program: Download Registration Form: Download
"Steep Edge" film festival to open X-Wye 2014
SteepEdge is passionate about the great outdoors and their mission is to make all the best outdoor adventure films available, no matter how rare or obscure, to watch when or where you want.
Something to wet you apetite? Check out this awesome vid by uphighnz;
[Climbing in Wye Creek on Proud Monkey Roof]
Whats more they are offering PRIZES! So come down to the adventure film festival tomorrow (Friday 24th - 6pm) at The Find. Register for the X-Wye festival and be in to win.
The mighty X-Wye Trophy!
Well if the bragging rights of winning the climbing marathon on Saturday is not enough for you here is another equally brilliant reason to push hard and defeat wye creek and your adversaries to take victory (and this awesome trophy) home with you.
This amazing sculpture/trophy was designed and fabricated by our very own strong man and artist Tom Van Den Berg. Cheers lots Tom you litteraly and meaningfuly rock!
Saturday Fancy Dress Marathon & Routes Released for Sunday Comp
This weekends X-Wye is all about having fun on the rock and socialising with lots of local, national and international climbers. If you thinking of entering the Saturday marathon compete fancy dressed and earn 50 extra points! Last year Owen Hale and Edwin Edino Hollins were definitely up there with their costumes.
and then...
Entering the competition on Sunday?
Routes for the climbing contest on Sunday have been chosen! 4 routes from 21 to project grade (30+). To qualify for the contest you will need to climb clean Beril Vibe (21) in less than 4 minutes at Hidden Wall ( a stellar climb put up by Rupert Gardiner). Other routes will be kept top top secret until the D-day. Get up there and see what your made off!
Local legends drop top prizes for X-Wye 2014
The guys and girls in our favourite places have been really generous and supplied lots of prizes for the X-Wye, make sure your there to get involved in the comp or simply relax in the sun and watch some world class climbing in a world class location. Once again a massive thank you to:
Patagonia (Let's Get Outside - 11 The Mall, Qtown),
Cookie Time (cookietime.co.nz),
Lakes Leisure (sportrec.qldc.govt.nz),
NZ Shred (nzshred.co.nz),
Cactus (cactusequipment.co.nz),
Appellation Central (appelationcentral.co.nz),
SteepEdge (steepedge.com),
The find (theworldbar.co.nz)
Warming up for X-Wye at Wye Creek
Quick whip around with a hoover (chainsaw) and a few cobwebs brushed under the carpet (with a weed whacker) up at Wye Creek over the weekend! A good mission has seen the crag ready for a weekend of fun and games at X-Wye. Thanks to all the team for your input, big thumbs up to Owen Hale (DOC), Estelle Poiron, Guillaume Charton, Mark Dewsbery, Philip Green, Nick Odroft, top work guys!
Whilst up in the Creek the team checked the possum and stoat traps as well as moving several. There are also 6 new yellow possum traps in place, (please don't touch unless you have been shown how to operate as they are very powerful!)
If you are interested in helping with trapping please volunteer by letting us know here. And if you have never been up to the Waterfall by Zippity Zap it is a great spot to go for lunch if a hot day. Not to mention a few very cool climbs!
QCC Weekly Photo Comp!
Congratulations to Thomas Van Den Berg for his great pictures of Michal Karnik climbing the Living Tree in Little Babylon which got many 'likes' by the local climbing community. Although his pictures are (a bit) outside of the Queenstown region they still deserve a big thumb up. Thomas wins this Macpac hat worths $30!
If you haven't entered you photos for this weeks prize just jump on our Facebook photo comp page and get posting!
QCC Social Events this Week!
This week we have arranged some events that will let us all chill out together in the longer evenings and soak up some of the glorious country (without down jackets hopefully)!
BBQ TIME! - Weds 20th Nov (Tomorrow!!!) 
Social Climbing Club BBQ at Frankton Beach (7pm below the Frankton Arm Tavern). We will provide BBQ + Gas, you just need to bring your own food/drinks.
Look forward to seeing you out there. If you need more information just drop a note on our Facebook page.
HERO WALL MEETUP - Thur 21st Nov
Social Climbing at Hero Wall - meet at 5pm at Fernhill carpark by the Fernhill roundabout, bring your own gear and lets go climbing!
Hope to see you all there on the ramp up to the weekend.