{"id":160,"date":"2011-01-03T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackrussell.cobradah.org:8196\/wordpress\/?p=160"},"modified":"2011-01-26T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T10:10:08","slug":"crest-celebrates-10-years-of-assistance-to-the-oxfam-trailwalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"CREST celebrates 10 years of assistance to the Oxfam Trailwalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- td p { margin-bottom: 0cm; }p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } --><\/p>\n<h6>Sunday, 30 August 2009<\/h6>\n<p>On Friday 28 August 2009 the annual Oxfam Trailwalker commenced in   Sydney&#8217;s north. The fundraiser held by the charity Oxfam is an event   where teams of 4 people walk or run over a 100 km trail through Sydney&#8217;s   northern bushland and National Parks.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney CREST has provided communications support for the last 10 of   the 11 years that the event has been held. A network of fixed and   portable radio repeaters are set-up and are linked together to provide   safety communications to each of the checkpoints along the course.<\/p>\n<p>This year 500 teams (that&#8217;s 2,000 individual participants) commenced   the walk of 100km principally on the Great North Walk from Brooklyn on   the Hawkesbury River to Georges Heights near Middle Head on Sydney   Harbour. Each year, teams have 48 hours to complete the course however   the fastest teams typically complete the course in under 14 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Teams are required to raise a minimum of $1000 each. In 2008, over 2   million dollars was raised for Oxfam. These funds support Oxfam&#8217;s work   in 26 countries including indigenous communities in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The event is a multi-squad Volunteer Rescue Association (VRA) event.   VRA Bushwalkers Wilderness Rescue also assists Oxfam with the event by   &#8220;extracting&#8221; injured walkers from the trail, providing operational   logistics in the control centre and sweeping some trail sections to   ensure that all walkers are through. CREST has been assisted by other   VRA squads including the NSW Cave Rescue Squad and Wicen. Members of the   Manly Warringah Amateur Radio club also provide operators to man the   CREST control station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, 30 August 2009 On Friday 28 August 2009 the annual Oxfam Trailwalker commenced in Sydney&#8217;s north. The fundraiser held by the charity Oxfam is an event where teams of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}