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CLIMBERS SURVEY – HAVE YOUR SAY

Save Grampians Climbing have put together a climber’s survey (Dec-Jan 2021) and we’re inviting all climbers that have visited Arapiles or the Grampians to fill it out.

https://forms.gle/ndnTDm2HN8JUsFEs

VIDEO: A WORLD LESS TRAVELED

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Recent Posts

Management Plan Submissions – You have until 24th January! January 9, 2021
Climber’s survey – Have your say December 12, 2020
Off the Charts – the real route losses in the Grampians November 19, 2020
New Management Plan Revealed – Only 22% of routes open to climbing, Permits required, Bouldering decimated November 11, 2020
Hollow Words – PV Ignores Tourist Damage at Aboriginal Site October 28, 2020
4500+ Climbs Closed – 38% Gramps and Arapiles Now off-Limits October 26, 2020
Sign of the Times – Protection Rules Relaxed for Profit? October 21, 2020
Arapiles Protection Declaration Expires October 7, 2020
Legal Action in the Supreme Court (Plus Formal Complaints) September 25, 2020
Divided We Fall August 20, 2020
Taipan, Spurt and Bundaleer – “Temporarily” Banned August 14, 2020
Declaration Protection – It’s Official June 19, 2020

ACAV Updates: Australian Climbing Association (Vic) Inc.

Victorian Climbing Management Guidelines – Version 4

Following a period of consultation, the Victorian Climbing Management Guidelines document has been updated to version 04. The Victorian Climbing Management Guidelines V04 This document has been issued to interested parties at all levels. It is intended to inform and advise with a view to establishing excellent climbing management practices for the benefit of everyone. […]

Time for an Audit, Parks Victoria

Blanket bans on rock climbing in Gariwerd/Grampians National Park and Tooan/Arapiles State Park have been introduced by Parks Victoria under the advice of one consultant archaeologist. When a site has been assessed by this archaeologist, the Aboriginal Heritage Act comes into play and the barriers go up. This has brought about climbing exclusions on a […]

New Grampians Management Plan Imminent

This ACAV update covers Victorian climbing access issues in the lead up to the proposed release of the draft Grampians Landscape Management Plan 2020 by Parks Victoria, due for review by the Environment Minister in June 2020. The 2003 management plan defined the Special Protection Areas (SPAs) that were later invoked in 2019 to ban […]

Archaeologist Complaint lodged by ACAV

The Australian Climbing Association Victoria has made a formal complaint to the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists regarding the conduct of a registered Archaeologist, Robert (Ben) Gunn in relation to the nature of his published work, reporting on alleged rock climbing impacts in the Gariwerd/Grampians region. Complaint letter The outcomes we seek are:1. To retract […]

Declaration Crag “consultation”: worrying precedent for Arapiles closures

Parks Victoria has been quietly getting on with business during lockdown, entering into consultation over Declaration Crag / Taylors Rock at Arapiles with 3 community groups: Arapiles District Community Group Mount Arapiles Advisory Group Gariwerd Wimmera Reconciliation Network. No climbing groups were consulted. This is concerning. Alternative viewpoints from a climbing perspective are unwelcome it […]

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