Leading tree climbing photographer Rob Fisher was at the recent 2011 VTCC, and has been kind enough to let the VTIO use some of his pictures (see below). For more great shots of the day please check out his website, where he has posted a gallery of VTCC shots.
On 11 Oct 2011 the VTIO held it’s AGM. Outgoing president Pat Kenyon accepted the thanks of the committee for several years of hard work on behalf of the organisation.
The new committee and office bearers are as follows:
President: Kiah Martin
Vice-president: Joe Harris
Treasurer: Pete Reynolds
Secretary: Dean Simonsen
Website Manager: Juri Meggarity
Media Officer: Shane Hall
VTCC coordinator: Pat Kenyon
Promotions and prizes: Grant Cody
General committee members: Graeme Hughes, Troy Porter, Andrew McKennan, Michael North, Matt Weatherhead, Mark Cashmore, Alex Pinniger
Entry for the 2011 Victorian Tree Climbing Championship is now closed. The event will be run on Saturday 12 November at the Commonwealth Reserve in Williamstown, to the west of Melbourne. The aim is to run the whole event in a single day, weather permitting, so we’re going to be on a tight schedule!
The event will be run in the same format as last year, with competitors split into four grades: Student, Men’s Open, Women’s and Men’s Masters grade. Entries for the Masters grade will again be capped at 25, with places awarded on previous competition ranking then by precedence, so get your entries in early.
On the day before the competition, the VTIO will be offering a full-day tree climbing workshop, focusing on honing the skills and techniques used at the climbing competition, but also on tying those skills in to the practice of tree climbing in your day-to-day work. Presenting the workshop will be some of the top climbers in the world: Scott Forrest (ITCC champion), Joe Harris (ITCC runner-up) and Grant Cody (3 time Australian champion). Please see the post below, or click here to download a PDF of the flyer.
Entry for both the 2011 VTCC and the preliminary workshop closed at 6:00pm on Wed 2 November.
Please click on the image above to download a PDF version of the flyer
The CAV and VTIO would like to thank ENSPEC, Homewood Consulting and The Tree Works, for their contributions to the tree defect workshop in Bendigo. Furthermore we would like to thank The City of Greater Bendigo for the use of their Botanic gardens and the excellent lunch that was provided to all participants of the tree defect work. This was another successful day with 110 participants where everyone gained something out of it.