Rock Climbing At CattleStop Crag
On Monday 20th June Rimu Class went rock climbing for the William Pike Challenge Award at Cattlestop Crag. We couldn’t of gone up to rock climbing without Andrea, Tanya, Miss Todd, Mrs Royfee and Miss Blair who provided transport to Mt Pleasant. At first it was very windy and cold but after 10 minutes it was really warm and not windy at all.
When we stopped driving we had to walk the rest of the way down the track to the rock. As we were walking down to the rock we past the abseiling rock, It was really high up. When we got to the climbing rock our instructors asked us what we knew about the William Pike Challenge. Our instructors names were, Steven and Josh. When we first got there I felt excited but also nervous because we were so high up but the view was fantastic. Below us we could see all of Christchurch and the estuary near Redcliffs.
What I enjoyed most was walking the track and climbing the rock as well. I didn’t do the abseiling because I was to afraid to, because we were already high up and we had to climb higher to abseil down the rock. I also didn’t want to walk down a wall backwards.
At the end when we finished climbing we all walked over to the abseiling rock and my sister was still abseiling down, when she got to the bottom of the rock most of the class walked down the track back to the cars. A few of the values that William Pike told us were to have pride in what we had achieved and to also show resilience in climbing. I can see how these values relate to me from previous hockey injuries, and my everyday school life.
