The ROC website will be down for around 24hrs this weekend, while its moved across to a new server.

Most of our existing members will know about this, but just posting it up for all our new members.

There are a bunch of extra features you can access once you register for our site and then link to your membership using this page. Link Membership

These features currently include

• - See a List of all trips you are signed up too.
• - Check details of gear you have hired out
• - Express signup to trips (no need to verify email etc)

To get to these, log into the ROC site and then open 'User Control Panel' and hit the 'ROC Trips' tab!

The club gear room is open regularly for members to hire gear, browse through the club's library of books and maps or just drop by for a chat.
Here are the new hours effective immediately.



Opening hours are subject to change each semester.
For any enquires you can contact the gear officers at gear@roc.org.au
Our Phone Number is 9925-5254 (available only during opening hours)

Location: RMIT BLDG 12, Floor 5, Room2
Time: 6.30pm

Come along to an info session where we will talk about the club, the activities we provide and some of the major trips coming up.
We will show some photos and videos of some of our activities. Each activity convenor will give a quick rundown of their activity and some of
the upcoming trips. There will be time to ask questions and 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.

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Congratulations to the following three winning teams for the ROC Pubgaine 2009

First place
Team: Tom is a Cheat - 480 points
Claire
Rich
Billy
Soeamh

Second place
Team: World Police - 380 points
Bob
Tom M
Nick
Mickey

Third place
Team: Fab 4 - 350 points
Clem
Chiko
Diana
Yike

ROC is now on Twitter!

Follow us for regular updates @ http://twitter.com/RMITOutdoorClub

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.

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!)

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 14 Mar - Beginners Orienteering
Orienteering - Woodlands Park
Mon 15 Mar - Wildlife Walk - koalas, roos, owls + possums
Bushwalking,Social Event - Warrandyte
Thu 18 - Mon 22 Mar - Tassie Hiking Trip II
Bushwalking - Tasmania
Thu 18 Mar - Microbrewery Showcase - Beer Tasting
Social Event - Federation Square
Fri 19 - Sun 21 Mar - Beginners Climbing Trip
Rock Climbing - Mt Arapiles
Sat 20 Mar - 6 Hour Rogaine suitable for beginners
Bushwalking,Rogaining,Social Event - Daylesford

Tue - Weekly Climbing
Rock Climbing,Social Event - Hardrock CBD and Cliffhanger Altona

Wed - Street Orienteering
Orienteering - Various places around the suburbs

Thu - Weekly Bouldering
Rock Climbing - Lactic Factory, Abbotsford

Thu - Mid Week Riding
Mountain Biking - Yarra Trails