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Someone else will have to post the actual numbers but Kudos to Charlie Wagner for winning the Masters'Challenge. Chris Schra (A rookie who wound up with third)climbed the dry tree in a flash but The other three masters had to wait on a thunderstorm. Charlie was first up the wet tree and did it right. Luke ? (Sorry Luke I forgot your surname) won the overall in the prelims but took second right behind Charlie in the Masters.
 
Thanks for clarifying Fred. It was likewise great meeting you.I'm glad you mentioned Kyle Baxter. I know that Kyle didn't win the throwline because he didn't take the highest shots and thus didn't have the highest point count but he impressed everyone watching by setting two ropes in under 2.5 minutes-He was smoooooth.
 
Yeah, Kyle is as good a climber to never make the ITCC as we've ever had in the chapter. I will miss him after 7 years of working with him: he's transitioning to full-time yoga instructor.

Other notibles: Jeff Hafner (how the twins doing, Wisconsin?) ran the Work Climb just 2 seconds slower than Charley, made some huge moves very smoothly, but maybe lost a few bonus points due to being the unknown guy. Matt Mayo took second in the AR, but DQ'd for the second time in 3 years from the Work Climb. He was definitely a favorite to make the MCh. James Melton executed a phenominal swing in the work climb, but didn't have a good (for him) footlock, and came in 5'th.

Luke climbed exceptionally well in the MCh, including a mid-climb switch in strategy. But Charley blew everyone out of the water (there was alot of that element in the tree), with a key high redirect that put him in great position for the final two stations, and a huge, breathtaking sideways/downwards leap onto a rain slimed limb. He finally pulled out his tape-measure-encased-retractable-throwline-redirect retriever that he kept in the bag last year, to remove a second redirect that had dropped him right next to the bell on the limbwalk station. And, he had the presence to crack up the crowd with a well timed comment about his mother's particular style of cheering for him.

All in all, a great day. Special thanks to Tom D and Mahk for setting the tone.
 
Rock on (perhaps I should say Tree On) Charlie! Looking forward to climbing with you in Nashville!
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Hey all any women compete in the comp??
 
I think that we got most of the annual rain in Denver in the last week or so. Too bad it was when we wanted clear weather.

Having such a wonderful group of volunteers to work with on the crane workshop and the TCC made my job very easy, and fun too :)

We spent the whole day inside because of rain. The crane operators attended the workshop and added some good insights. Mahk has a phenomenal program put together.Many of us agreed that more was learned from the presentation than by going out and cutting the tree down. Like Wyatt, Sr. said, "Everyone should know how to cut limbs by now."

Charlie came up with an idea for the TCC that we tried out. Instead of five events rotating on the hour we had the Work Climb, Aerial Rescue and Throwline going with the 33 climbers in three groups. When the 3 events were done we ran the speedclimb and Footlock. We didn't actually save any time on the clock but many people liked the format. This gave the climbers more opportunities to see how there buddies climb and to actually chat with the rest of the "family" during the day. The spectators were able to see many climbers do the events.

A suggestion came back to run the two speed events at the same time as the tree working events next year. That has some merit. If the climbers knew that they had to get the two events done by a certain clock time, they could choose the best time for them. That way we would be done much earlier too.

What do other people think of the idea?

The sportsmanship was first rate. All good cheer and professionalism.

Tom
 
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