The National Tree Climbing Championships held on Saturday 21 November at Pollard Park, Blenheim provided plenty of drama. James Kilpatrick led the mens event into the Masters but overall victory went to Scott Forrest.
The Mens Masters qualifying points are as follows:
1) James Kilpatrick 147.28Arborists can't be working very hard today - following the previous blog posts we have had a number of requests for us to publish the full NTCC results prior to the masters.
These are unofficial preliminary results - check the NZ Arb website for the Official version.
Just in from Rick Mexted (new President of the NZ Arboriculture Association) - the Womens National TCC results are as follows:
1) Chrissy Spence 129.56The Aerial Rescue was particularly challenging for most of the climbers. Woody was ..
Good luck to all the climbers in the National Tree Climbing champs to be held this coming weekend at Pollard Park in Blenheim.
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