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The local koalas are getting excited. Only a couple of weeks before they can watch teams navigating past their tree top posts. The best time for you to see the koalas is at night. Their eyes shine brightly in the torch light. This is the home territory of ACT's pet koala "Barkley". Named after the amazing koalas in this area that are known to eat bark.

Entries close on 1st May. Come and exercise off all that Easter chocolate.
Buses are running from Sydney on Friday and from Canberra on Saturday morning. Book your seats for a social time going to the event and a well earnt sleep on the way back.
Dinner on Friday night and breakfast on Saturday morning is also available for purchase. It’s a fund raiser for the local Jerangle Primary School and they make fantastic tucker! See you at the event!

Come on all you blokes and sheilas; its time to pull your socks up and enter the rogaine. This is the Oz champs, but in the interests of fairness, anyone can give it a go! It's a friendly course with open bush and nice places for controls. Have a squiz at the photos and the other goodies on offer on the website.

If you want an event t-shirt, you need to enter (to get the promotion code) and then order the shirt through the Mont shop before 14th April. This is what one happy rogainer said about the T-shirt - "I went out to Mont on the weekend and tried on a generic event shirt to get the size right - they are lovely shirts, they hang really well, nice material and good price. Gonna get one, maybe two."

There will be plenty of food at the Hash House as well as an All-night-tucker-n-cuppa stop about in the middle of the course area. BBQs are a theme for this event. Join in the Friday dinner and Saturday breakfast for the full service and help support the Jerangle Primary School raise funds.

We and our NSW rogaining friends have organised buses to get you to and from the event. Jump on at Sydney or Canberra for stress-free travel with plenty of time to chat or sleep. Order your seat by 21 April (Sydney bus) and 1 May (Canberra bus) so we can have it warmed and ready for you. Contact us after that date to check if any seats are available.

Uni and Tafe students - we're running your special Inter-Varsity event at the same time. Grab a friend from the same uni or tafe and enter - just remember to tell us where you're from.

There are a number of key dates for ordering certain items - these are important to make sure everything is in place before the event on May 5.

 

14 April Closing date for orders of championships technical tee-shirt
Note - you need to enter the event to get the discount code to order an event T and get 20% discount on other items from Mont.
21 April for Sydney bus and 1st May Canberra bus Closing date for booking seats on the buses. You can contact us after these dates to check if there are any spare seats available.
23 April Last day for cheaper entries
30 April Cut-off for orders for Friday dinner and Saturday breakfast
1 May Final date for event registrations

Don't miss out!

It's 8 weeks to go till the 'Ridgy Didge' event, so plan on a few extra walks or runs to get those legs and minds into gear!!

The event will be using the navlight scoring system which many of you will be familiar with. If not this is how it works: All team members will be provided with a small green 'tag' which looks a bit like a toy wrist watch. You attach this with a tamper-proof wrist band and it must be worn for the whole event. At each control all team members must insert the navlight unit (looks like a thick pencil) into the green tag. The navlight will flash to indicate it has connected and scored. At the end of the event, the tags are scanned and you receive a print-out of all the controls you visited with split times and the total. Even though you might be pretty tired, check the printout to make sure it is correct.

Bus to and from the event for safe travels. There will be a bus from Canberra to the event site on Saturday morning (leaving at 6.45am) given the strong interest. In addition, we are planning for a bus to go to the event on Friday evening. This bus will be coming from Sydney leaving central station at 2pm. It will pick up in Canberra at about 5.30pm. PLEASE BOOK SOON OR WE MAY HAVE TO CANCEL.

Mont Adventure Equipment have a great special on the event T-shirt ($47.95) and 20% off any other equipment that is bought at the same time. See the Mont web site for details. T-shirts must be ordered no later than 14 April (ie before Easter).

If you are not not familiar with the rules of rogaining, or need to brush up on them, please read these on the Australian Rogaining website. A few basics are that you can only use your compass, basic time piece and the map to navigate. That is: no GPS capable devices (unless these are in a special sealed bag), no altimetres and no other maps. Teams must stay together and be in voice contact the whole time and compulsory equipment for this event is a whistle and space blanket.

Welcome to the new website for the Australian Rogaining Championships. Thinking about entering the event? Have a look at the photos of the open eucalypt forest and get talking to your team mates. The event weekend is 6-7 May 2017. The Hash House and event camping is about an hours drive south of Canberra - between Bredbo and Cooma.
Also look at the event T-shirt under the "Event Info" - "Merchandise" section. Mont are sponsoring this event and are selling the shirt directly from their website. They have put together a group of other gear that suits rogainers. If you are buying an event T-shirt, everything you buy will be 20% off.

Never done a rogaine before? There is information about navigation and rogaining events at ACT Rogaining Association's getting started page.

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