Bushwalk Australia

I hope this is the right forum to place this, but hopefully search and rescue isn't a part of bushwalking for anyone here, but it is a bushwalking discussion as I'm sure we're all glad they exist..

Somebody asked in another forum "why support local retail?", and one of the considerations I suggested was that it can support your community (at many levels). I've been working with LandSAR http://www.landsar.org.nz/front/front.aspx?ID=996 here in NZ to develop a way Macpac can help ensure the continuity of excellence Search and Rescue provides to the lost and the missing. Together we've partnered with the largest communities of outdoor user groups, the Federated Mountain Clubs (FMC) and the New Zealand Alpine Club (NZAC) to drive an awareness campaign that has several initiatives that will see Macpac donate 10% of all sales* towards LandSAR equipment requirements, and additional fundraiser activities.

While we are still working on an equivalent scheme in Australia (search and rescue), you guys have the option to support NZ search and rescue in the meantime (just ask in store). Who knows, you may be one of the 100's of Aussies that get "geographically embarrassed" in the hills over here one day.

(This is part of our Macpac Adventure Partnership (MAP), http://www.macpac.co.nz/our-company/map . Other MAP partners include Forest & Bird, and several outdoor education programs in AU & NZ and the Hillary Trust.)


cheers,
Cam
(*all sales where a customer nominates LandSAR as their preferred MAP recipient- i.e. : there are other communities one may choose to nominate)

Ahh well, Ill bite.
Good on you.
Im sick and tired of the complainers pointing the rude finger at the prices retailers charge to keep a business solvent and their salaried and wages employed.
Ive no idea how you manage 10%. Hope the love of it doesnt keep you poor.
Love the attitude commitment and sentiment. Well done. I hope you get to buy a decent car some day.

"There was also a guide there who used to take tourist parties up the Franz Josef Glacier," Dot [Butler] recalled. "He would give them a regular spiel to the effect that ... 'This glacier comes down from 9000 feet to sea-level, it has 3672 crevasses and there's an Australian down every one of them!'