Good afternoon everyone.

Looking forward til later in the month & early November we have 3 more events, The Battle of the Beasts mountain bike ride seems to be under control (Graham, can you let me know ?), and we now need to look at the Fitz's Challenge bike ride being conducted on Sunday 27th October, and a week later we have the Tumut Rally on Saturday 2nd November.

For Fitz's Challenge, we need a minimum of 10 field stations, 3 mobiles & 3-4 people in HQ across the day, ideally we would like a total of 25 people to cover off all checkpoints, mobiles & HQ however it is very hard to get that sort of numbers.

This event starts at 6.00 AM for the "Extreme" (255 KM) and "Epic" (205 KM) rides, with other ides commencing at 7:30 AM for the "Classic" (165 KM) 8:30 AM for the 105 KM "Tharwa" ride, and 9:00 AM for the 50 KM "Tidbinbilla" ride.

We need to be set-up and in place at HQ prior to the start, and we need field stations in place at Tharwa by 7:00 AM (and those people at the 6 checkpoints beyond Tharwa need to be past Tharwa by 7:15 so as to be in front of the cyclists).

For the Tumut Rally we need to support 11 field stations and 3-4 people in HQ.

The location is at "Bondo" about 30 KM's from Tumut (look for Bondo Forest HQ which is about 2 KM's away). This is approx 225 KM's (2.5 hours away) from Canberra via the Hume Hwy through Gundagai and Tumut, or 126 KM's (2.8 Hrs) via Wee Jasper, or 95 KM's (2.7 Hr's according to Google Maps) via Brindabella Road (the last 2 have a fair amount of rough dirt road - but passable in 2WD with reasonable clearance).

It is hoped that we will again get a number of people come over from the Wagga Wagga ARC, and we already have a volunteer coming from Western Sydney for the day but we do need a core of people to drive down from here as well.

So now for the normal plea, could you please hit the REPLY (and not REPLY ALL) button and let me/us know of your availability for each event, please be a bit specific as to which you can or cannot attend.

Cheers,

... Phil VK1PL.