You can now get a live listing of trips that you are signed up to including your current status on these trips (confirmed, waitlist etc) through our website.

First you need to link your forum/website account to your club membership details that you use to sign up for trips. Once that is done you will be able to access the list of trips you are currently signed up to and also join trips without having to go through the verification email process!

This can be access through the User Control Panel. See the screenshot to the right for an example listing!

OutdoorGearStore.com.au is proud to offer RMIT Outdoors Club Members a 15% discount from our new online store, where you will find everything from camping gear to ice climbing, adventure racing even snowboarding gear. Our range is growing daily, with IceBreaker Merino wool clothing coming online this week, and OnePlanet Sleeping Bags and Packs only a week or two away.

To get your 15% discount at any time, simply use the following “Coupon Code” at checkout: RMITOC

Your discount will automatically be calculated before you part with any credit card details. We accept Visa, MasterCard, AMEX and Bank Direct Deposits.

We also charge a flat fee of $5 delivery – anywhere, any size in Australia.

Starting from today the Gear Room will no longer be opening on Wednesdays, we will look at getting another day time opening happening again when Semester 2 starts.

Evening opening hours (Tue + Thu 6.30-7.30pm) remain unchanged.

UPDATED LIST OF BARS FOR THIS EVENT - SEE BELOW

Come have some yummy Thai food at Cookie & enjoy a drink on the rooftop bar.
Then we move onto 3 other rooftop bars in the CBD.
Don't worry, if it's raining all these venues have indoor areas.

CITY BAR-HOPPING SPOTS
7-9pm: Cookie/Rooftop Bar, Curtin House, 252 Swanston St
9-10pm: Madame Brussels, 59 Bourke St
10-11pm: Trunk, 275 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
11pm-onwards: Palmz at the Carlton, Rooftop 197 Bourke Street

Tonight we are conducting a stocktake of club gear at the gear room from 6:30pm.

We are still in need of volunteers to help out - so come on down if you can lend a hand.

Free beer & pizza will be provided!

Last saturday's sky diving photos have been uploaded onto the gallery! Check them out!
Go to: gallery2.php?g2_itemId=12377 In addition, photos from other recent social events have also been uploaded.

Come along next Monday 4th May from 8pm for a social get together at L3 Melb Central. Have a beer and an awesome burger at Grill'd! After dinner we can move to nearby Melbourne Central Lion Hotel or Cho Gao for more drinks. Great chance to catch up with other members and start planning your next adventures!!!

RETURN CLUB GEAR ASAP!!!

We need all club gear not being used on upcoming trips this weekend and next weekend to be returned to the gear room as soon as possible, as we are planning a stocktake for mid-May. We will have a gear return amnesty (no late fees, no questions asked!) up until the deadline of Thursday 7th May 2009. Any gear not returned by this date may incur late fees. In particular, we are missing a lot of climbing gear, so if you have any climbing gear please return it ASAP!

As the title implies...

THE GEAR ROOM WILL BE CLOSED THURSDAY NIGHT (9th April) !

Just an additional 'heads up' that the gear room will NOT be open during the usual time of 6.30 to 7.30pm this Thursday due to the Easter trip.

However, you can still go Tuesday night during the regular time (6.30-7.30pm) and the new Wednesday time (2-3pm) if you need stuff for a trip.

Have fun over the break!

You can now get your very own personalised iCalendar Feed. This will only show trips that you have registered for.

Plug the following link into your favourite calendar program.

webcal://www.roc.org.au/my_roc_trips.php?ID=xxxxxx

With the xxxxxx replaced with your launch ID (as per the back of your membership card!)

Starting from Wednesday 8th April the Lunchtime Gear Room Opening will be rescheduled to:


Evening opening hours (Tue + Thu 6.30-7.30pm) remain unchanged.

Welcome to all our new members who signed up during Orientation Festival Day!

Next big event is Intro Night, on Wednesday 4th March from 6.30pm. Information Session will be followed by free BBQ. See the calendar or poster below, for more details.

Intro Night Poster

Our newsletter is now also online! Have a read about some of the trip from last year!
2009 Outdoors Club Newsletter

New to the club ? Have a read of our Orientation Guide. Contains lots of info including what to take on trips, food etc.

Gear Room has resumed regular operating hours, currently opening hours are
Tuesday and Thurdays Evenings 6.30 - 7.30pm

Also for the time being there will also be a Thursday Lunchtime 12.45-1.45pm opening


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Orientation festival Day is on Wednesday 25th Feb from 11am - 4pm. We will have a stall in Bowen St (near the basketball court) where you can come and find out more about the club, the activities and trips we run. You will also be able to join up to the club. We will also have outdoors club T-shirts available for the bargain price of $10.

Intro night is Wednesday 4th March from 6.30pm, it will be held in the Uni Function Room in Building 8 (Enter off Swanston St, near the Commonwealth bank, its the first room to the left of Keleide Theatre).This night will start with an information session where you can find out all about the activities in the club and some of the upcoming trips. You will also have a chance to sign up to the club. The information session will be followed by a free BBQ where you will have a chance to meet many of the clubs members.

Please note if you are a new member, it is best if you complete the online registration on the Launch site and bring your booking confirmation (or Launch ID and Booking numbers) along when you join. See here for instructions.

Gear Room - will be re-opening on the Thursday 26th Feb 2009. The hours for Semester 1 will be Tuesdays and Thursday 6.30pm to 7.30pm.

Intro Trip - has been set for the Labour Day Weekend (6th-9th March), after the success of last years trip out to the Otways Ranges we have decided to head back again this year for another long weekend of action, including Mountain Biking, Bush Walking and Surfing! Rock Climbing Intro will held on the following weekend 13th-15th March and Paddling Intro the weekend 20th-22nd March tails about these trips and plenty more for Semester 1 to come soon.

Orientation Festival Day - will be held in Week 0 this year, on the 25th Feb 11am - 4pm, so if you are not doing anything that day come along and find out more about the club and sign up. We will be running an Information Night on 4th March at RMIT where you can also find out more all the activities we offer and the trips we run and afterwards enjoy a free BBQ.

Keep an eye on the calendar and weekly club emails for further details as they become available!

The Outdoors Club gear room is now closed for summer and will not be operating regular opening hours over the summer (uni) holidays, it will operate by appointment only. If you need to hire or return any gear over the summer you need to email gear@roc.org.au atleast 3 days before to arrange a suitable time.

Well if you haven't heard yet, our gear room has moved to a new location. Its a Bigger and better and all new and shiny gear room, which actually has enough space for all our gear (well atleast until we go and buy more gear). It is Located in Building 8 level 2, just to the right of Kaleide theatre as you walk in through the auto-doors. To make it super easy for you find we have produced this map. If you get lost trying to find the new room you can reach us on our new phone number 99255254 (during opening hours only).


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Have now also added a iCal Feed for upcoming trips, you can subscribe to this feed from your calendar program and you will be able to see all upcoming trips in your calendar.

Upcoming Trip iCal Feed

This has been tested in Mozilla Sunbird (and Lightning for Thunderbird), iCal (Mac) and Google Calendar (Web) it should probably work in any other calendar program that can handle .ics files.

To subscribe to the calendar in Google Calender Click 'Add' then 'Add by URL' and enter the link above.
or just click on this link

We now have an RSS feed for our upcoming trips. http://www.roc.org.au/rss_trips.xml

If you are using firefox 2+ or IE7 you can add this feed as a 'live bookmark'. You can then get direct access to upcoming trips directly from your bookmarks or bookmarks toolbar and new trips will get pushed to your browser daily!

If you are using an older version of firefox or Internet explorer then you may be able to get a plugin to enable rss feeds or you can use a stand alone rss reader such as http://www.feedreader.com/.

you can also add this rss feed into your google account!

Sun 05 - Tue 07 Jul - Snow Trip
Other - Falls Creek and Mt Hotham
Mon 06 Jul - Monthly Social Night - July - Dinner: Half Price Mondays!
Social Event - The Carlton Hotel, 193 Bourke St Melbourne
Fri 10 - Sun 12 Jul - Downhill Ski/Board Trip
X Country Skiing - Mt Hotham
Fri 10 - Sun 12 Jul - wicked boom splitboard/ski backcountry fun
X Country Skiing - Mt Loch, Derrick Hut
Fri 10 - Sun 12 Jul - Lead Climbing Trip
Rock Climbing - Mt Arapiles
Sun 12 Jul - Beginner/Intermediate MTB Trip
Mountain Biking - Lerderderg State Park

Mon - Indoor Bouldering
Rock Climbing - Lactic Factory, Abbotsford

Tue - Weekly Climbing
Rock Climbing - Cliffhanger, Altona

Wed - Street Orienteering
Orienteering - Various places around the suburbs

Thu - Indoor Climbing
Rock Climbing - Hard Rock, Nunawading

Thu - Mid Week Riding
Mountain Biking - Yarra Trails