NZ Bouldering Notes
An independent guide to New Zealand bouldering, its competitions and its history. We write about where people boulder, how comps are run and scored, how the scene got here, and how to build a sensible wall at home.
Guide
Where people boulder in New Zealand and how to look after the rock.
Competitions
How bouldering comps run, how they are scored and how to get ready for one.
History
Two decades of New Zealand bouldering competitions, told neutrally.
Home wall
Planning, building and looking after a bouldering wall at home.
Recent notes
- Planning a home bouldering wall: space, angle and fall zone
- Greywacke by the sea: Baring Head and Turakirae
- North Island limestone: bouldering around Waitomo
- Bouldering at Kura Tāwhiti / Castle Hill: access, care and etiquette
- From grade points to Fibonacci: how bouldering comps are scored
- Thirteen summers of national bouldering comps in New Zealand, 2003–2016
- Bouldergaine: the day rogaining met bouldering at Kura Tāwhiti
Looking for the old competition site that used this address? See the archive note. We are a separate, independent site.