I just had a few beers over lunch with Tony McKenny and Dave Humphries.
Amongst other things, we discussed the possibility of reviving the CCT.

Tony's idea is to make the club as online as possible - a virtual club, so as to minimise all the crap you have to do for an association - meetings, minutes, officers, constitutions, membership, bank accounts etc etc. We would still have to have an AGM and a public officer, but there aren't all that many legal requirements.

The main purposes for the existence of the CCT I can see are:

• Advocacy: representing climbers' views to government as orgs such as National Parks and the Wellington Parks Trust
• Guidebooks: being the publisher and copyright holder for guideboooks, such as the upcoming Pipes guide
• Standards: publishing codes of conduct, and things like policies on bolting

I am more than willing to create a space on this site for the CCT, involving a set of pages, a membership list, and a forum. In order to resurrect the CCT it will require at the least a new constitution, and some new members. Wouldn't be anything to grand to start with, but it could grow if people get keen.

Ideally, if we can manage it, membership would be free or very low cost.

So, are people out there keen for the resurrection of the CCT? Would you be a member?

Jon.