Ω What better way to kick off the 3rd generation Powerband bouldering portal than to take you back to where it all began……Wellington! As best as I can recall, my very first post on the original Powerband website was reporting great deeds of strength and endurance at Baring Head, then the crucible of hard bouldering in New Zealand.
Times have changed.
Nobody goes to Baring Head anymore (except me and Richie Rich). And the crucible of hard bouldering in New Zealand is now Castle Hill basin. Still, new and exciting stuff continues to happen (if rather infrequently) in the Wellington bouldering scene. Certainly the New Zealand bouldering scenes is as strong (if not stronger) than ever.
After a partially successful experiment with the ‘coordinate’ blogs (41174 and 43171), it’s time to reignite my dreams for world (climbing website) domination. This time I will be more-than-ably assisted by Richie Rich (Minister of Information), Gomez (editor at large), the Koppulator (large editor) and hopefully you. Please send us your news, images and videos. We wont bite (well, we wont puncture the skin).
Anyway, back to the real point of this post,which is my AWESOME new problem at Turakirae Head. It’s big and bold, with long pulls between good holds. It’s everything you could want in a modern boulder problem at the grade. It’s the next generation. On reflection, I probably should have called it Powerband! Ω
looking good!
cheers. isn’t it funny that, back when we were all dialing up Powerband at 14kbs per day, it was 95% image files, and now we’re all logging in at lightspeed to a site that is mainly white space…
yeah loooking good, like the hands
might be lightspeed at oban rd bro. Lyttelton broadband often moves at the same speed as those minute electrical charges coursing between Matt Piersons nuerons …
Rad looking wall!
Awesome!!! I was a big follower on the old Powerband back in the day, and how I have missed it so..A bouldering only NZ website site, my dreams have come true again….
Brill site bro, thanks for putting this together. Now I have something to look at when I’m not chasing Swine Flu swines. Of the old Powerband, I remember a flash production of ‘Ships Prow’ on lakeside boulder in Wanaka… good memories…
Resurrection = back from the dead. Wonder if DT’s old google baring head website is still kicking around somewhere!
baring head was also being visited by other old has-been types. But not me for a while, I’m focusing on the Harz, and Norwegian boulders the next few months.