Some stuff

Here is the link to Jakes blog, where he has posted some pic from last weekend

http://yabodigg.blogspot.com/2007/08/climbing-pics.html

This weekend i'm in Auckland btw, for the first weekend in 2 months!! Trying to finish my assignments before the midsemester break that starts next friday. Funny that next week is my last week before the break, and the first week of the new semester for you guys back home :)

The semesterbreak is already kind of planed (ferry tickets over cook strait bought). Me, Owen, Jake, Kristin and Ingrid are takeing Owens car and are going to drive down to Arthurs pass near Christchurch, where we will meet up with Stafanie and Stefan. And then we are planing on climbing!

New gallery

I have finally got a new gallery too!

http://picasaweb.google.com/ingavatne/

I'm a kayak, hear me roar!

For everybody that have heard me and Lisa talking about beeing a kayak and seen our comments on skype and msn and facebook and been wondering what it means: Here is the scene from Gilmore Girls it's from!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyCfX7M7WtY (big credit to Lisa that managed to get it on You Tube! Good kayak!)

And as a comment to Lisas comment to the Pinapple joke: No, Lisa, not unfair, I think people understand the joke well enough to not want to know what it is about :)

Correction

Marty does not have anything to do with the pinnaples on the blogpost furher down (that one was for Lisa, Carmen, Heike and Aurelie! :)

And to something else, I love comments on the posts!

Mamma

For those not knowing me too well, and wondering why I am as I am: This is my mum! :) (on a mountaineering course, high in the norwegian mountains)

Mt Ruapheu once again!

Once again we went to Mt Ruapehu to do some mountaineering in the weekend, the 5 hour drive each way is starting to get really familiar, and doesn't even feel so long anymore!

It ended up beeing only me and Shiva going this weekend, a really girly roadtrip in other words :) Since two girls alone in a tent in a desert campsite is not to safe, we decidet to spend the nights at the hollyday park in Ohakune, which totally overcharged us and demanded 16$ a night for each of us in our tiny tent ("We could have hired a guy for that prize!" was Shivas comment:)

On Saturday morning we met up with Glen and the other peole doing the course. We had a long day climbing the summit of Girdelstone (around 2600m). The snow and ice where totally crappy, but it was beutifull in the mountain anyway! We ended abseiling down again in the dark, with amazing moon, and the fantastic stars of the southern hemisphere. After 14 hours in the mountain we finally got back.

But the way back was not completly without problems... When we almost had reached the skifield, me and a swedish guy called Magnus walked another way than Shiva and Glen, because Shiva wanted to be more careful. (Shiva is wise!) We where walking down agains a gully near the skifield, when Magnus suddely slipped and started to slide down the slope. He did a almost perfect self arrest, but the ice was way to hard for the iceaxe to get in. It was a really scary experience to se your climbingpartner just slide down the ice faster and faster without being able to do anything, and just see him slide and tumble untill it got flat and he stopped, and just see a light lying still. Espesially since I was the one leading on, and saing the way is fine.. Luckly he got up after a little while and was able to walk the rest of the way down, where we got him to the hospital. He wasn't seriosly hurt, and felt fine the day after, but still it was a shock. Lesson learned: use you rope and pros!

As this wasn't enought, when we got down, we where still missing one person. So Glen got Magnus to the ambulanse while me and Shiva stayed at the skifield waiting for the last guy, which turned up about 3 hours later than us. He had also slided on the ice, lost his ice axe and hammer, and had quite a hard time getting back only with crampons.

This in total made a really long and hard day, it wasn't untill four we finally was back in the tent in the nice and warm sleepingbags. To use the sunday then to just drive slowly back to Auckland, stopping on a couple of nice cafes, and going to a natural warm streem, was perfect.

Funny things

"The dog" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHTQUxwYc2o
For imitation wake Anders up at three in the morning!

Martys english/aussie course: (published without premission:)

stupid
adjective

1 they're rather stupid unintelligent, ignorant, dense, foolish, dull-witted, slow, simpleminded, vacuous, vapid, idiotic, imbecilic, imbecile, obtuse, doltish; informal thick, dim, dimwitted, dumb, dopey, dozy, moronic, cretinous, pea-brained, halfwitted, soft in the head, brain-dead, boneheaded, thickheaded, wooden-headed, muttonheaded, daft. antonym intelligent.

2 that was a really stupid thing to do foolish, silly, unintelligent, idiotic, scatterbrained, nonsensical, senseless, unthinking, ill-advised, ill-considered, unwise, injudicious; inane, absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous, laughable, risible, fatuous, asinine, mad, insane, lunatic; informal crazy, dopey, cracked, half-baked, dimwitted, cockeyed, harebrained, lamebrained, nutty, batty, cuckoo, loony, loopy. antonym sensible.

3 he drank himself stupid into a stupor, into a daze, into oblivion; stupefied, dazed, unconscious. antonym alert.

my fuk'n vapid noddle is flat-out like a lizard
translation: my brain is not working

And last but not least, girls: remember to eat pinapple!

Or wait.... was it the boys...?

Second Ruapehu weekend and bouldering competition

This weekend i was once again on Mt Ruapehu, learning ropework for alpine climbing on steep snow. A really cool guy named Glen are arranging free courses in alpine and ice climbing, and I attended to the basic one. Which was really a lot of fun, and I learned a lot. If someone wants to see some more cool pictures from Mt Ruapehu they should check out Martys gallery (see links).

The only bad thing I have to say about the mountains in New Zealand in winter is that they are kind of disapointing compared to Norway :) Walking with crampons are not much fun compared to walking up with skis with skins and ski down again! And as a addition after Martys comment, Mt Ruapehu is really beutifull, and I have not yet been on the south island and seen the mountains there, they might be even nicer! So I might not be able to compare properly :)

This wednesday I attended to a bouldering competition, first climbing competiton i have ever attended to. Which was really really fun, even tough I ended up with a hurting wrist and 0 points... :)

I also have to mention that I suddenly one day ran into Kristin at the rec senter! Really fun to completly unexpected se a familiar face here on the other side of the world! Kristin also joind AURAC and attended to the bouldering competition, so I could cheer with Hu & Hei once more again :)

Me climbing the first intermidiate problem

Kristin climbing same problem as me.

Edwin on an advanced problem

Andrew on an advanced problem

Garry in the end of on of the advanced problems