Australian Tree Climbing Championships 2011

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Joe

After 10,000km of roadtrip, and three regional tree climbing competitions, the into trees crew took part in the Australian Tree Climbing Championships in Darwin on the weekend of May 28 – 29.  The preliminaries were held on the Saturday, with five male and two female climbers progressing through to climb in the Masters’ Challenge on the Sunday.

into trees is proud to announce that Joe Harris has won the 2011 ATCC Masters’ Challenge, and is the current Australian tree climbing champion.  Fellow roadtripper Kiah Martin also cemented her reputation as Australia’s leading female climber with a 10th win at the national level: Joe and Kiah will be going to Sydney to represent Australia at the International Tree Climbing Championships in July.  More details, full results and some photos will be posted here shortly.  The event attracted national media attention, with television coverage on several channels as well as reporting in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and on the A.B.C.

The roadtrip continues…

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Let this one run – Darwin

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Joe

After another few days on the road, the crew are in Darwin, with a week to go before the Australian Tree Climbing Championships 2011 – time to get acclimatised, and to get used to the legendary green ants! 

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Brad Bowden – rope guide install

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Joe

One criticism that has often been levelled at the groundbreaking ART Ropeguide by climbers using ‘traditional’ two-ring cambium savers (or even more traditional natural crotching) is that the Ropeguide cannot be installed from the ground.  In the video below, leading Western Australian climber Brad Bowden demonstrates that this assumption is definitely not true.

Brad would be the first to agree that this technique is not one which would be required often – the usual approach of installing an access line and using SRT to head straight to the top, or installing a mid-line anchor point on the access line, would in most cases be a straightforward way of achieving the same result. However, tree climbers who become comfortable with this technique might well find situations in which it was the most effective solution for the problem – possibly for a large removal, where the lowest branches could be cut-and-dropped in small pieces?

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