BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Australia/Sydney X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3426@unswoc.org DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE:20240706 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE:20240707 DTSTAMP:20240703T015807Z URL:https://unswoc.org/wordpress/events/inward-bound/ SUMMARY:Inward Bound DESCRIPTION:Hi Everyone!\n\nI (Margot) with some help from my faithful wive s\, am organizing a new thing for the club inspired by ANU's Inward Bound. \n\nWHAT IS INWARD BOUND?\n\nKind of like spicy rogaining\, Inward bound i s an event where you get dropped in an unknown location\, a map where your finish location is marked\, and you work out where you are and race other teams there. ANU is hardcore and had divisions where you get dropped off up to 100 km from the finish\, but we are mostly not that hardcore and I d on't want to deal with people being out after dark so I'm aiming for a 15- 20 km day. Ýou'll have a map and a compass but obviously no GPS nav is al lowed. Just you\, out there\, raw dogging navigation just like they did in the old days.\n + + \n \;\n\nWHAT KIND OF DAY CAN I EXPECT?\n\nLike I said\, I'm aiming to have teams travel 15 to 20 kms\, which will be most ly on roads and trails but expect some bush bashing too. I would like to h ave everyone out by sunset ideally\, cause I don't want to have to worry a bout you all\, so expect an early start. I think aim to camp at a campgrou nd up in the Blue Mountains (I will announce later) Friday night\, then we 'll move from there early Saturday morning. Leaving Sydney at an ungodly h our and driving up to meet us at the campground would also work. Then you' ll be blindfolded\, and dropped off with your team in a location with your day packs and given a map\, and from there its up to you!\n\nHOW WILL THE TEAMS WORK?\n\nI am currently thinking the most likely arrangement will b e 4 teams of 4. It would be great to have more spaces\, if more are keen\, but we'll be limited by how many people can fit in a car and how many vol unteers I have to drive cars\, and then how many people fit in a car. If y ou have a car or access to a car that can fit more than 5 let me know as w e can have some bigger teams then. If stoke is high and we can't accommoda te all the people who are keen hopefully this will be a proof of concept t o have more/bigger events in the future. I will assign the teams myself\, to do my best to evenly divide up abilities and also to make sure there ar e people in each team I trust to get dropped off in a random location in t he bush. Feel free to add your team preferences (if any) in the comments a nd I'll take those into account\, or flagrantly disregard them.\n\nWHY ARE YOU ORGINISING THIS SO EARLY? (This doesn't seem in character\, are you o kay Margot? Have you been kidnapped?)\n\nCause I'm leaving to go on the La rapinta bitches! I'll be on the Larapinta from the 7th to the 22nd of June which would be prime time to organize this so I have chosen (with admirab le responsibility\, although it's probably not necessary) to start doing s tuff now\, and mostly I'm after an idea of how many people are interested\ , so probably not much will happen till I get back. This means if you don' t hear from me for ages\, don't stress\, I'm just chilling and vibing in t he outback\, and your trip request will be dealt with in time.\n\nHOW WILL YOU KEEP ME SAFE?\n\nI am still working on the details of safety for this event. All teams will have a PLB of course\, but I'm hoping all teams wil l also have a InReach (or similar) for less emergency safety contacting. I f you have or have access to a InReach or something of the sort let me kno w! I'll give you priority with getting a spot on the trip.\n\n \;\n\nT his event is still a work in progress\, so will keep you updated with timi ng and logistics\, and what to bring later as things progress. I'm posting this now mainly to get a grasp of numbers and if we can get cars/InReache s off people. So\, If you're keen please put in the comments:\n\n Your ro gaining\, navigation\, bushwalking/trail running or other relevant experie nce/ability\n If you have a 4wd\, or a >\;5 seater car you're donate to the drop off efforts (I'm hoping 4wd will not be necessary for the drop o ffs but just incase)\n If you have an InReach\, satellite tracker\, or ot her satellite communications device (not a PLB) that I might be able to us e for this event\n A cool fact if you have one and want to sway my decisi on to give you a spot and/or brighten my day\n If you think this sounds c ool and would like to be involved but don't want to be lost in the bush ru nning around all day let me know if you'd be keen to volunteer to help org anize the event! Mainly I'll need people to drive the teams out but I'm su re it will be a fun day of talking shit and waiting for the teams to turn up\, and you likelyhood of having type 2 fun in some scrubby gully full of lawyer vine is drastically reduced.\n\nEDIT: I HAVE GONE AND SUSSED OUT T HE ROADS AND WE TOTALLY WILL NEED SOME CARS THAT CAN GO ON MODERATELY SHIT ROADS. If you have a 4WD or AWD or could possibly borrow one please put i t in the comments! Enough people have volunteered in reaches so we should be good on that!\n\n \;\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Hectic Hiking LOCATION:https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Mount+York+Campground/@-33.55 42008,150.2165711,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b12735602d30fb1:0x36c4573 1227bc0ec!8m2!3d-33.5542008!4d150.219146!16s%2Fg%2F11smb_hkqk?entry=ttu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Sydney X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20240407T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR