Fleming students take to the trees for annual competition
Fleming College’s Arboriculture students will take to the trees next week for the annual Fleming Tree Climbing Competition at the Frost Campus. The competition, organized by the Arboriculture Program, will take place on Friday, April 11, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. near the Centre for Heavy Equipment Technology at the campus, 200 Albert St. S. in Lindsay.Students will compete in five categories:• Belayed Speed Climb – a timed event in which competitors must climb to the top of a 25-metre tall tree• Aerial Rescue – a timed and judged event in which competitors must extract a 170-pound dummy from a tree• Footlocking – a timed event in which competitors ascend the tree on a rope• Work Climb – a judged event in which competitors must visit four stations in a tree and then hit a landing target on the ground• Throwline – a judged event in which competitors throw a weighted line at various targets in a tree. The competition is scored according to the International Society of Arboriculture’s International Tree Climbing Championship rules, based on the timed events and points amassed in the judged portions. All are welcome to stop by and watch the competition.Event: 10th Annual Fleming Tree Climbing CompetitionDate: Friday, April 11, 2008Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.Location: Frost Campus, west of the Centre for Heavy Equipment Technology – 30 -For more information: Laura Copeland, Communications Officer, 749-5530 ext. 1370 or copeland@flemingc.on.ca