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Castle Hill - New Zealand

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www.tota.co.nz/castlehill/index.html

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Castle hill is in New Zealand, which is a little English speaking country in the south of the Pacific Ocean. It has lots of mountain climbing type stuff and is a real outdoor paradise. Hey, if you what to know more, use a search engine and look up some touristy sites. What we are concerned with is climbing (probably bouldering as that's en vogue). We have climbing on all types of rock but generally on a smaller scale, except the Darrens, which is a huge granite big walling type place and there is bound to be some bouldering too. All the other areas are great, but if you want boulders - Castle Hill is the place. It is a place like no other, a style not found anywhere else in the world.
Even better, New Zealand is cheap; our dollar is as weak as toilet paper. What else is good... the weather - all year round climbing. Summer is hot and the rock has bad friction but summer still seems most popular. Winter is cold with a bit of snow, but friction to die for. Autumn and spring are the seasons that you should aim for. Castle Hill is in a basin so the weather is weird - it is the last place to get rain and not much wind ever gets in. Of course when it does rain just go to Christchurch and hang out, or climb there, if its fine, at one of the dozen local crags.

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