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AccessWaikatoPakeho

Celebrating a massive community effort at Pakeho

Every climber knows the feeling: the quiet frustration when you hear a favourite crag is closed. For many of us, Pakeho was that crag. With its classic limestone routes and stunning Waitomo bush setting, it was a special place for climbers of all levels, and its closure in 2022 was a big loss.  But this sparked a massive effort to bring it...
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Pakeho crag reopens!

ACAT is stoked to announce that Pakeho will reopen to the public from the weekend of 9-10 November 2024. The crag reopens thanks to a massive community effort and crag-wide rebolting work that cost over $15,000.  Incredibly, the crag has also doubled in size! The original 68 routes plus 16 re-discovered routes have all been rebolted with 316-...
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Donate to Pakeho

Pakeho crag was reopened thanks to a massive community effort and crag-wide rebolting work that cost over $15,000. Your donation will support continued crag access plus essential maintenance work at Pakeho and other crags. If you have climbed or will climb at Pakeho, we encourage you to make a donation of at least $10 per person for each day you...
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Pakeho Crag re-opening project update

Since ACAT signed an MOU with the Pakeho landowners in January, Chris Hailey has been leading an epic community effort to get the crag ready for re-opening.  The main job has been re-bolting the existing routes with glue-in 316-grade stainless steel eye-bolts, so we can assure the landowners that all climbs have been safety-checked and the...
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Progress on Pakeho crag

ACAT has been working behind the scenes toward re-opening Pakeho crag, and has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the landowners and started re-bolting the crag. Pakeho is a beautiful limestone crag in the Waitomo area popular with beginner-intermediate climbers and instruction groups. It was closed in 2022 for reasons including...
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Pakeho crag is closed

We are gutted to announce that Pakeho crag has been indefinitely closed for climbing. Pakeho is a beautiful limestone sport climbing area in the Waitomo district. Pakeho was re-opened in 2017 with assistance from ACAT’s GM Edwin Sheppard and volunteer Michael Donovan (well before ACAT existed). Since then, thousands of climbers have enjoyed...
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