Events

As part of the University's Pride celebrations we are hosting a night of friendly competitions at Warners Bay this Wednesday with Pulse kindly donating some vouchers for our winners!   Grab your NUMC members fee to Pulse for $8 (accessible here https://pulseclimbing.com.au/numc/) as normal and grab a ticket for this event if you would like to join in with the competitions so I know how many scorecards I need. I will touch base with everyone who gets a ticket to help sort out teams of three, feel free to make a team with your friends! The club night will be operating as normal too.   In teams of three you must climb the hardest grade you can in each of the colours of the rainbow, with the highest grade for that colour counting towards your team score. I have set up a digital scoresheet for teams to record their climbs (e.g. red grade 7, orange grade 6, yellow grade 8, etc). Whichever team has the highest score at the end of the night wins, with 5 bonus points on offer for each item of rainbow clothing one of your team members wears on the night (please make sure you don't wear anything that isn't safe to climb in)!   Important housekeeping rules: Please bring your student card, it's a lot for the staff to process all of you whilst tending to their usual customers so please make their lives easy and bring your student card for easy entry. Make sure you have checked in for the club night at the front desk as usual   Keen to see you there! - Captain Phil

LET’S GO CAVING…  If you have been wanting to try caving or are experienced and want a weekend escape into the abyss, this is the trip for you. We have heaps of places for you guys to come out to Timor Caves, in Geawegal Country. When: 9th October. The plan is to leave at 5PM on Friday, set up camp and hang around the campfire and then wake up bright and early Saturday to cave the day away before leaving for home in the arvo.  What: Now this is the fun part. First, we make our way to the caves which will be a short (or long) walk depending on how good you are at finding the damn things. Second, we put on our helmets, switch on our torches and dive into the underground world of rock, darkness and awesomeness. Once inside we walk, crawl, slide, and swear our way through the tunnels, trying to see what we can find and where we can get. It’s the ultimate in terms of exploration, the only thing stopping you from finding out what’s around the corner or in that tunnel is you. If you are claustrophobic, this is not the trip for you. We're aiming to get through 2-3 caves in the area over the day; all caves will be optional though and if you don’t feel like caving all day you're welcome to stay at camp.  Skills: This is a beginner trip so no prior experience of caving is required! However a reasonable level of fitness is needed as there will be 10-15 minute walks to most of the caves. What to bring: - 1 lunch and 1 breakfast. Dinner will be provided on Friday night. Saturday's dinner will be on the road, but likely a pub feed with everyone together.  - Water for one day (at least one litre in a sturdy or plastic bottle, each car will have a 10 or 20 litre water container for refills, but you NEED a bottle) - Clean clothes for the car ride home - Camping gear (can be borrowed from the NUMC gear store or BYO) - Torches (can be borrowed or BYO) ***Head torch ESSENTIAL*** - Overalls (optional) - Spare batteries (Club torches take 4 AAA or 4 AA batteries, you MUST have a complete spare set.) ***ESSENTIAL*** - Backup torch (a $5 hand torch is fine) ***ESSENTIAL*** - Helmets (Gear store) - Sturdy and/or cheap shoes. Following the “they gon’ get dirty” theme. (You get the point by now, there is dirt. Everywhere. Like, EVERYWHERE. And also water. Water and dirt make mud. You get the picture.) - Wet wipes/baby wipes recommended - Cheap gardening gloves (Also highly recommended) - Face masks (these caves are DUSTY) For additional information, feel free to flick me a message. Once you've got your ticket, make sure to be at the gear store by 5PM AT THE LATEST on Friday the 9th of October for our departure at 5:00PM.  Camping gear can be borrowed prior, it's a first-in-first-served system.  That's all from us, get keen and sign up, Cant wait to see you all there! Cheers, - Captain Phil