UPDATES Central Otago News Line UPDATES Newsletter of the Central Otago Section of the New Zealand Alpine Club - August 2019 (#8.1) Following the dispatch of the August Newsletter yesterday, this brings you a few important updates. Next Section Trip Spring Trip - 28-29th September 19-20 October – Nigel & Beatrice (venue to be confirmed) AGM – Wednesday 16th Thursday 17th October – followed by a talk from Kieran Parsons 7.00pm at the Sherwood – Queenstown Indoor climbing - Basecamp Adventures, Queenstown - NOW OPEN Admission: $22 NZAC member $25 non-NZAC member Basecamp Adventures has opened a new indoor climbing centre in Queenstown. The new centre offers both technical climbing routes as well as indoor entertainment in the form of Clip ‘n Climb. The new facility includes lead and top-rope climbing and bouldering and NZ’s only speed climbing wall – making it the first wall in New Zealand to cover all three Olympic disciplines. The 250m2 bouldering wall is one of the largest in NZ and includes a 25m traverse wall, huge cave and LED Moonboard. The Sport wall has 40+ climbs spread over 15 ropes (including one auto-belay) and grades 12-25+. Clip n Climb offers hour-long sessions on individually themed climbing challenges provide exciting active entertainment for everyone. Address: Unit 3, 15 Red Oaks Drive, Frankton Hours - 7-days, 10 am - 9 pm Phone - 03 443 1110 to book Photo credit: Basecamp Adventures MESSAGE FROM NATIONAL OFFICE Winter Book Clearance We’ve just discounted some more NZ Climbing Literature titles. Please login online for member rates and check out the following. In addition, past Journal issues have been added for early years that weren’t available previously. Numbers are limited: https://alpineclub.org.nz/product-category/specials/ .