Cup weekend at Arapiles

Requirements: Trip meeting will be at 7pm at the Dan O'Connell Hotel (225 Canning St, Carlton).

Public holiday on Tuesday November 4th! Take Monday off and spend 4 days climbing at Araps!

The plan is to leave Melbourne Friday evening, camp, climb Saturday to Tuesday and leave Araps Tuesday late afternoon.

The Nati Frinj Festival is also on this weekend. It's an arts event run by Natimuk, a small town of 500 people where 10% are climbers. Visit http://actnatimuk.com/nati-frinj/2013-nati-frinj-biennale for more details. 

One event that may be of particular interest to climbers is Arapiles 50: A celebration.

As described by the VCC: "This small scale forum will look at climbing at Arapiles over the last 50 years from the sport itself to the environment we use to explore it. Static displays set up within a meeting place across the weekend will encourage people to visit within their own time frames. These displays will cover the many aspects that climbers engage in when they climb. This will culminate in a presentation Monday 4th November evening by a number of notable climbers from the early years, followed by a Q & A style discussion. A lively attitude will be encouraged! An entertaining and thoughtful approach to climbing then and now, what has and hasn't changed and what do climbers want and expect from their climbing and the environment they engage in. 

The presentation of slides and anecdotes, includes the climbers Geoff Schirmer, Michael Stone, Simon Mentz, Peter Jackson and Louise Shepherd telling their own unique stories from the storybook of Arapiles.

The Q & A panel discussion has a lineup of climbers, Arapiles identities and land managers that are all poised to fire up the night with their answers to your questions. A healthy dialogue to be engaging in with the future of Arapiles now under discussion.