Saturday 9th June at 9:00am What are we planting this time? – 20 x White Cypress Callitris glaucophylla – 10 x Port Jackson Pine Callitris rhomboidea – 20 x Drooping Sheoak Allocasuarina stricta – 20 x Yellow Gum Eucalyptus leucoxylon ssp leucoxylon – 3 x Wallowa Acacia calamifolia All gathered seed from Mt Arapiles and […]
Saturday 5th May 9:00am
The Northside Summer Boulder Ladder Final will be held at Northcote Northside Boulders on Friday 16th March from 4:30pm. Come along and try the new problems – the whole gym is being reset. Over $2000 worth of prizes. Entry is $10, with $5 being donated to Cliffcare. Have a great time and support Cliffcare!
One of our sponsors, The Wilderness Shop in Box Hill, is holding a VIP Buying Night. VCC members can use their VCC Membership Cards to obtain 20% off gear. Just in time for your Easter Climbing Trip. When: Tuesday 20th March 2018 Where: The Wilderness Shop, Whitehorse Rd, Box Hill Time: 5:30pm – 8:30pm VCC […]
Climbing Film Festival Saturday 31st March 6:00pm Arapiles Community Theatre Films, Food, Fun times and Prizes. All monies raised go to the Arapiles Community Theatre, which brings us great events such as the Nati Frinj. Goatfest is still wanting more films, including anyone interested in making their ‘directional debut’. So let your artistic inner self […]
The Wilderness Shop Annual Sale is scheduled for Friday 17th to Sunday 19th November 2017. VCC members have been invited the exclusive pre-sale evening on: Thursday 16th November 5.00pm to 9.00pm. All stock will be a minimum 20% OFF (normally 10% off for club members). In addition there will be hundreds of other specials […]
REEL ROCK Film Tour 2017 is hosted proudly by Bogong Equipment at The Astor Theatre, St Kilda. 21st November 7:00pm For one night only, join Melbourne’s climbing community in a social film night. Kick back and take in the year’s best climbing films on the big screen. Join us for climbers’ biggest night out […]
One of our sponsors, The Wilderness Shop, is holding a VIP Buying Night. VCC members can use their VCC Membership Cards to obtain 20% off gear. Just in time for your Easter Climbing Trip. When: 4th April 2017 Where: The Wilderness Shop, Whitehorse Rd, Box Hill Time: 5:30pm – 8:30pm To download or print the […]
Melbourne’s latest Climbing Gym, North Walls, has finally opened. Situated in the heart of Brunswick, there is excellent public transport access. Melbourne climbers have never had it so good for training facilities and variety in route setting! North Walls has feature walls by Walltopia, a world-leader in climbing wall manufacturing. Address: Unit 3, 17-19 Hope St, Brunswick […]
From the 15 December there will be a new gym in town, check out the Gravity Worx web site here and opening flyer below.
Final days to order your copy. Get in and order before it’s too late! It’s time for another beautiful collector’s Print Edition of Vertical Life – Australia’s premiere climbing magazine. That’s 144 pages (+ covers) of reading pleasure on thick matte stock: the best stories and photos from the eight issues through 2014–15, plus a […]
The VCC Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 15th September at The Retreat Hotel in Abbotsford. The meeting will start at 7:30pm in the Carringbush Room. Meals and drinks available. The AGM will feature all the usual AGM Reports, Voting for the new Committee, Reports and Speeches. And this year the highlight will […]
There’s a whole magical world out there: mountain life! We want to give you an idea of what mountaineering is about, where its beauty lies and why it is so addictive. Like climbing on rocks, mountaineering is an activity requiring a mix of skills. In the past many successful rock-climbers like Brigitte Koch, Alex Honnold […]
The Wilderness Shop is having its once a year 20% OFF club buying night and we would like to invite your club. Details are as Follows: 20% OFF all stock*. The Wilderness Shop 969 Whitehorse Rd, Box Hill Thursday 21st April. 6pm to 8:30pm. Food and drink will be provided. The sale night is not […]
Thought you’d missed out, we are told there are a handful of tickets remaining for this Wednesday. Catch Monique Forestier and Simon Carter on their exciting tour when they visit Melbourne. Not sure if you’ve heard of Monique Forestier, but in the world of inspirational rock climbers she is top notch! She’s one of Australia’s […]
GET YOUR TIX BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE Tickets to the 2016 Banff Mountain Film Festival Australian tour are selling out fast. This year’s tour is jam packed with insane powder, breathtaking scenery, awesome mountain biking, courageous climbing and inspirational adventures. Featuring a specially curated selection of films from the recent Banff Mountain Film Festival in […]
This year’s winning ticket numbers are: Bayside Rock 6 month memberships: 3000 0967 $500 Bogong voucher: 5822 Roos with a View weekend accomodation: 1175 Beal Opera Rope from Sea to Summit: 4291 Breathe Pilates 10 class multipass: 1759 Mount Zero Log Cabins weekend accomodation for 2: 5633 Hardrock 10 visit pass: 5762 5660 1713 5761 […]
Welcome to the VCC’s new web site thanks to a dedicated band of volunteers Tim Lucas, Josh Bassett, Andrew Clark and Hywel Rowlands. The site has been developed free of charge and we are stoked with the result. We hope you like it. We look forward to improving and updating the site over the coming […]
Black Ians Rocks is in the Black Range in The Grampians. It has a well deserved reputation for superb crack climbing in the intermediate grades, as well as a range of other styles of climbing. The crag now also has a number of mostly harder sport routes. Black Ians is also a perfect winter crag, […]
The VCC are holding regular Club Nights at Gravity Worx Indoor Climbing Gym. For 2018 these will be held fortnightly on the second and fourth Thursday of each month. We will be climbing on Thursday the 14th and 28th June. These Club Nights are relaxed and informal. The idea is that you can come along […]
The third Learn2Lead Course for 2018 has been rescheduled. The course will now run at Mt Arapiles/Djurite from the end of June until early July. It will run from Saturday 30th June – Thursday 5th July, 2018. These new dates also fall in the Victorian School Holidays. The VCC offers this course exclusively to members. […]
Cooler weather means great friction – what better reason is there to visit Mt Arapiles in June? Enjoy the sun on the Watchtower slabs or on the sunny side of Mitre Rock. Get up (reasonably) early and catch the warming rays on the nearby classics and well-worn trade routes in the Organ Pipes. Maybe explore some new areas […]
It’s never too early to start mountaineering … except if there’s no snow 😀 however our statistics junkie figured out that this is the first weekend with guaranteed natural cover. Join Matt, Petey and Philipp in this endeavour to find the little pockets of mountaineering adventures in Australia. We’ll try to tackle some steep snow and ice […]
Crag X and The Solarium are in the Red Rocks area of the Victoria Range in the SW Grampians. The area has recently undergone a transformation. It used to consist mostly of a few harder trad routes from the late 80’s, but now it has been reborn as a sport climbing area. The sport climbs […]
Cooler weather means great friction – what better reason is there to visit Mt Arapiles in July? Winter at Arapiles can provide some stunning climbing. Enjoy the sun on the Watchtower slabs or on the sunny side of Mitre Rock. Get up (reasonably) early and catch the warming rays on the nearby classics and well-worn trade routes in […]
Although this year will be the year without Game of Thrones, snow will still fall and we’ll be back on Mt Feathertop! You’ve done some rock-climbing and want to step it up? You’re thinking about doing a Technical Mountaineering Course? You want to climb the Himalayas? This is EXACTLY the right trip for you. Hopefully […]
… snow, Snow, SNOOOOWWWW! Yes, the end of August is statistically the best time to venture out into the Australian backcountry and guess what we’re doing? Yep, hitting the sugar coated hills in the High Country for another time. The outlook for the Australian climate drivers (ENSO, IOD and SAM) are all meh (= neutral) […]
Join VCC & WVCC in an enjoyable weekend of family climbing in the Grampians. Is there a better way to spend the Grand Final Long Weekend than climbing with kids? Bush camping on a private farm in the Southern Grampians and climbing in the Central Grampians, we will visit a progression of crags for younger […]
