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+++++ Accidental deletion of event/bookings for the Thursdays 21/04 and 05/05 +++++

We mistakenly deleted the next Thursday events in the booking calendar and thus deleted all the bookings you made. 😬 This impacted the dates 21/04 and 05/05. Sorry about that! We cannot recover the bookings through the website booking plugin and there had not been any notifications been send out. So the only thing we can do is open up the days again and hope everyone impacted will find out.

Apologies for the inconvenience! We hope that everyone gets the info in time.

+++++ Climbing night cancelled due to heavy rain (14/03/22) +++++

Unfortunately, we have to cancel the climbing tonight.
TNO had to close the site because the causeway got flooded due to heavy rainfall (120mm here in Redlynch this morning).

 

+++++ Back to normal! Starting next week (07/03/22) +++++
Good news everyone!
The COVID restrictions are loosening and we are going back to the full amount of people per climbing night. We had 15 in January and 20 plus volunteers in February, which allowed everyone to keep physical distance and for us to have enough volunteers to run the nights. Fortunately the omicron wave was rather mild in Cairns and most of us got away pretty well.
In addition, the QLD COVID regulations are loosening this Friday (04/03) and we do not have to wear masks in the gym anymore!
We will also allow to climb next to each other but keep the hand sanitizer as an optional feature.
 
So, from next week on we will pretty much be back to climbing nights as it was before the pandemic with the benefit of having a booking syste:
Full numbers, no masks, no physical distancing, no need to sanitize hands between climbs!
Hoorray!

+++++ COVID community transmissions and the CCC (01/02/22) +++++

Hi everyone!
Quick update on how we will continue the climbing in the club during the ongoing omicron wave.
We increase the numbers to 20 booking spots plus 3-5 volunteers for February or until further notice.

 

+++++ COVID community transmissions and the CCC (17/01/22) +++++

Hi everyone!
Quick update on how we will continue the climbing in the club during the ongoing omicron wave.
We (the committee and other volunteers) want to be back to have normal climbing nights, but we also want to keep us and others safe. The best solution we see at the moment is to run nights with reduced numbers, which 1) makes it easier to social distance and limit possible transmission, and 2) requires fewer guides, which make is more likely that we can run the climbing night and don’t have to cancel.
This means we will reduce to 12 booking spots until the end of January (plus 3 volunteers). Apologies, for some bookings will be cancelled. The bookings made first will be preferred, and people that have been cancelled at one night will be preferred the following. We will try to not split groups (e.g. families).
To limit any potential transmission, e will be also continue with the usual precautions:
    • keep one rope free between climbing teams,
    • physical distance on the ground as much as possible,
    • sanitize hands between climbs (treat gear and the wall, which we cannot clean, as potentially infectious).
In addition, we will comply with the actual QLD restrictions:
    • check-in when entering,
    • wear masks inside, although the mask can be taken off when climbing hard (strenuous activities).

Further, we ask everyone to do the right thing and take care for each other: take the precautions more serious than in times when we had no active cases in Cairns,

    • do not come, if feeling unwell or experience COVID symptoms, and
    • do not come, if you have been in recent contact with someone COVID positive.
We hope that we can stay safe while get back to a somewhat normal climbing life. Stay safe everyone and see you soon!

+++++ COVID community transmissions and the CCC (05/01/22) +++++

Dear CCC members,

COVID finally arrived in Cairns with case numbers rising every day and testing being rather insufficient at the moment and uncertainity how everything will develop. The increase in community transmission is of concern for us volunteers running the climbing club.

We do have some precautions i.e. hand sanitizing, physical distancing, mask wearing inside (but strenous activities like climbing can be done without mask), and taking used gear out of circulation for a week. Still, we are a lot of people in a small building, excercise, touch the same gear, have children running around… All in all not great to prevent community transmission with us volunteers being more exposed.

The committee has therefore decided to have a short halt on normal climbing nights and see how the situation develops here in Cairns. Today we do have not enough guides and would have to cancel anyways, and next Thursday is route setting. So we will also cancel next Monday in order to have 2 more weeks to decide how to move on (= no climbing nights until 17/01 or further notice).

It seems like the high vaccination rates and the prevailing omicron variant being highly infectious but also milder might lead to a normalization without too much stress on the health system (fingers crossed). This would allow us to take up business as usual soon.

Stay safe everyone! Please take care of yourselves and others and respect different opinions; we are all in it together!

+++++ Important Notice (05/12/21) +++++

Unfortunately, we had an accident happening during the last climbing night on Thursday; a climber had a ground fall!

The incident happened at the end of the night and involved two experienced climbers. It happened in a single-belay team and we believe it was a combination of factors that lead to the belayer not catching the fall of the climber properly. The fall came as a surprise and because the device had not been locked the slipping rope lead to rope burn and loss of control by the belayer. The climber fell several meters to the ground. Luckily the climber got away with only minor injuries.

The committee is in the process of analysing what happened further and will revise our standard operating procedures in order to come up with a solution that reduces the risk of such accident happening again.

Until further notice everyone must climb with a back-up belayer!

+++++ SummerFest / AGM 2021  +++++

05/12/2021  2pm-7pm

2pm – 5pm Climbing for everyone! ($10 entrance fee that pays the pizza toppings)

5pm – 6pm Stone oven Pizza (BYO drinks are welcome, but without glass)

6.15pm – 7pm AGM

More info on facebook or via email.

+++++ 20/11/21  COVID Update +++++

Social distancing while climbing is not required anymore. This means, you we can climb adjacent to other climbers and do not need to leave one rope free in between.

+++++ 04/08/21  COVID Update +++++

There has been at least one case in Cairns since yesterday! Contact tracing is on the way! At the moment that includes places in Cairns City, Trinity Beach and Yorkeys Knob. Please check the contact tracing page of QLD Health.  More places might be added soon.
We will proceed to have climbing on tonight but watch the development during the day.
Do not come to climbing if you are feeling unwell or have been to the exposure sites and do not have a negative test result!

+++++ Rain may impact access to the site +++++

Happy new Wet Season everyone!!!

Flood warnings are out for the next days and here comes the reminder that the site won’t be accessible during heavy rain. The little causeway on the road to the climbing gym floods quickly when it rains in Redlynch and we won’t be able to get in or out.

Climbing nights will be cancelled, if it pours down and the creek gets too high.
Be aware that cancellations may happen on very short notice, and if we are in and it starts pouring down we might have to call it and get out quickly. Also take into account that even if it is dry in the rest of Cairns, it might rain heavily in the valley.
The booking system makes it easy to inform everyone per mail. So please check your mail before coming when it looks like it might be wet.
In any case, stay safe and enjoy the rain!!!

+++++ CCC SummerFest 2020 (20/12/20) +++++

The CCC Summerfest is happening on Sunday afternoon!

In short this means we will have a Sunday afternoon/evening filled with climbing, T-shirt printing, stone oven pizza, the club’s annual general meeting and finish off with a climbing movie.

    • 3:00pm – 5:00pm Climbing For everyone! ($10 entrance fee that goes to the club)
    • 5.00pm – 6.00pm Stone oven Pizza (BYO drinks are welcome, but without glass)
    • 6.15pm – 7:00pm AGM
    • 7.15pm – 9:00ish Movie

Everyone is invited. We will still limit the number of people in the gym to 30 but allow more people in the outside area.

We start on Sunday at 3pm and finish around 9pm.

    • From 3pm to 5pm the climbing gym will be open. The entrance fee is only $10 (for everyone) but it goes all to the club (Thanks TNO!) so we can buy the ingredients for the pizza and the colours for the screen printing.
    • At the same time we will also do the screen printing. Bring a t-shirt or anything you want the CCC logo printed on.
    • From 5pm to 6pm we will prepare and eat fresh stone oven pizza.
    • After we filled our bellies, we all attend the annual general meeting (6.15-7pm).
    • This is the official part of the evening and contains the presidents and treasurers report about the last financial year. We will end with electing a new committee. Everyone who is interested in taking constructive part in the club is welcome to join.
    • To finish off the evening, we will watch a climbing movie on the big screen.

Everyone is invited to come, climb, have fun and eat as much pizza as possible. Please stick around for the AGM, as it is an important event of the club and please help out where you can (e.g with pizza preparation and screen printing).

It will be heaps of fun and I hope to see a lot of you on Sunday.

+++++ We are back to normal climbing nights including new members (06/08/20) +++++
Please check the info on the bookings page.
In order to keep climbing with the club relatively safe during a pandemic, we have to introduce some procedures and rules. Please read all info carefully before booking.

Our situation in the gym is a bit special and not ideal for containing infectious diseases. We are all cramped in a small room and touch surfaces and gear that cannot be cleaned efficiently. Please keep to the following procedures.

Before climbing:

Make sure you are healthy and do not have any of the symptoms!

  • Do you have fever? Cough? Sore throat? Headache? Shortness of breath?
  • Has anyone in your household had these symptoms in the last 14 days?
  • Have you been in contact with anyone having COVID-19 in the last 14 days?

If so, please do not come to the climbing gym in order to protect the health of others!

We will check your temperature before registering and will not allow you in if it exceeds 37.5 degrees.

Please make sure you understand and agree with the following procedures and rules before attending. There is a certain risk involved for you and others. Be aware of that risk and take care!

During climbing events:

Physical distancing

  • Keep 1.5m distance from your climbing partner and others in the gym.
  • Leave one climbing route free next to a climbing team.

Hand sanitizing

  • Please wash or sanitize your hands when entering the gym.
  • Use the hand sanitizer after you change a climbing route/set of anchors.

Treat the walls, belay devices, and ropes as if they are infected. They cannot be cleaned efficiently.

Gear

Gear will be lay out for everyone to take upon arrival and should be placed in boxes when leaving the gym. We try to keep the contact as little as possible. The gear cannot be disinfected chemically, but will be set aside for 7 days in order to have potential virulent particles become inactive. This is not the best way of disinfecting. Please be aware of that when using rental gear. It is recommended to use your own gear. We might also run short of gear, if we have multiple events per week.

Again! Please be aware of the risk involved for you and others. The club is run by volunteers and we are trying to keep the risk of infections as low as possible. We will have to make sure that everyone is safe and non-compliance with the procedures can lead to exclusion from climbing with the club.

Fortunately, the situation is not serious in FN QLD at the moment, but this can chance rapidly.

Thank you very much for your understanding!

Happy (and safe) climbing!!!

+++++ update on the progress of getting us back on the wall  (26/06) ++++++
TNO is slowly getting back to running their activities and we can get back into the gym, if we take care of a bunch of things.
As everyone might expect there will be a few changes in order to make climbing safe. Most importantly we will implement an online booking system. This will benefit everyone in that we can manage numbers better and make it fair who gets a spot. Plus no one has to leave after driving the whole way out there just to see that it is full already.
We will first run smaller groups (20max), which is 15 climbers, and 5 volunteers (guides and door management). This all means more work/climber for volunteers and might stretch the limitations of having not enough guides even more. But we will look into solutions, e.g. two sessions of 2h per evening. It will also mean, that because of the limitations we will run the first climbing events for regulars (members who paid the annual fee) and then for normal members, before we will take in new people. So please be patient. It will probably take a few weeks more. But we shall be back with a better system in which we can stay safe and healthy, while having a good time on the wall.

+++ IMPRTANT UPDATE +++ (17/03/2020)+++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Given the actual situation around the pandemic coronavirus, we decided it is the best to pause the climbing club activities for a while.

Looking at the development worldwide, Australia is one of the late countries to be hit. But the virus is here and it will spread. We can be active about it and try to slow it down in order to be able to deal with it better.

We believe the gym is a good place for spreading the virus. We cramp 30+ people in the small room and touch the same biners, tubes, ropes and climbing holds, while high-fiving our awesomeness and hugging constantly, because we like each other so much!

In addition, we are all fit, energetic, beautiful people with incredible finger strength and impeccable immune systems. Therefore, we might be carrying the infection without even noticing it. And even though we are not the risk group, we might have loved ones that are not so tough. And because they constantly want to touch our rock-hard biceps, they might risk infection with more severe outcome for themselves.

Fun aside, all signs alert that it is a serious thread. We are lucky in Australia that we are late and can see what happened in other places. Good advise is to isolate and help slowing down the spread to reduce the number of fatalities.

Please understand that not coming to the climbing club will be a good thing.

We miss you already and there will be a big group hug event when it is over, which might take a several weeks/months.

Stay safe and healthy!

The Committee

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Welcome to the Cairns Climbing Club Website!

Our club has access to the climbing facility of the Northern Outlook in Redlynch and runs regular climbing nights for its members.
Everyone is welcome to join the club and be part of a small friendly community of climbers. That means there are no restrictions on age, prior experience, or anything else.

Just come along to any climbing night, sign up, and get started! Kids are very welcome, but might want to bring their parents or a guardian to watch them or help them belaying.

Any new member will get an introduction, in which they get familiarised with the belay technique and the gym in general. The set-up of the gym differs from normal climbing gyms in that we have only top-rope, back-up belayers, and guides to oversee the climbing activities.

There are shoes to rent and harnesses/helmets to use. You only need to bring sporty clothes. You do not need to bring a climbing buddy or a belay team, but can easily meet fellow climbers on the site. We are a very open and friendly community. Just come along and check it out!

Climbing nights are usually every Monday and every second Wednesday, but make sure to look into the calendar!

There are more infos on the info page and better check the location page, if you need directions.

See you soon!

Disclaimer: The club is non-profit and run by volunteers. This means we try to keep the costs for members as low as possible, and it may be possbile that climbing nights are cancelled on short notice due to lack of available volunteers.

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General Info

Climbing Nights

Everybody is welcome!

Monday nights are for everyone, including newcomers. If it is your first time at the club, you have to come on a Monday. We will give you an induction and teach you how to belay/climb safely.

The second night per week (either Wednesday or Thursday) is for regulars only (who paid the annual fee). We do not give inductions on a regulars night, but if your schedule does not allow to come on a Monday, write us and we will find a solution.

 

Children and Teenagers

There is no minimum age for climbing, we do have very small harnesses.

Parents are expected to supervise and climb with their children. We do have blue cards, but we cannot take care of kids and we do not offer climbing lessons. We teach everyone from 10 years or older how to belay and 8 years or older to use the back-up belay. Parents/guardians of children are expected to learn how to belay in order to climb with their kids. Parents who do not climb (even if they belay) counts as spectator and does not need to pay the entrance fee. Every person needs a booking. 

Teenagers that are expierienced and self-sufficient can be left without supervision from their parents.

 

Costs

Entry fees are $18 for adults and $15 for everyone less than 18 years old. Regular members pay $30 per year, which reduces each entry to $15.

We only accept cash!

The entrance fee includes harnesses and helmets as well as beginner Climbing shoes (from the site). Club shoes can be borrowed for $2.

Time  

6pm to 9pm

Date 

Usually every Monday and either Wednesdays or Thursdays. Check the booking calendar for dates.

We generally take public holidays off and once in a while skip a regular’s night for route setting.

Location

Address: 646 Redlynch Intake Road, Redlynch 4870.

The entrance is on the right after the quarry and after the horse paddock.

More info here.

Spontaneous cancelling

Be aware that the site may be not accessible during heavy rain! The causeway to the facility floods fast, which blocks our access.

Climbing nights might also be cancelled on short notice, when our volunteers that run the nights are not available.

Location

The climbing gym is located on the property of The Nothern Outlook.

The address is 646 Redlynch Intake Road, Redlynch.

Google maps link

It is past Redlynch on the way to Crystal Cascades, just behind the quarry and the horse paddock to the right (there is a turning lane). Drive through the gate and follow the road until the end. We are in the tallest building.