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.