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<?php begintextdatebox("Mallorca","Easter Tour 1st–8th April 2012");?>
<p>Back to Mallorca, our first return since 2005. Sun, Sea, Sailing, Sports Climbing, Canyoning & more caves than you can shake a Stop at!<br>
</p>
<center><a href="/caving/mallorca/mallorca12.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/tours/2012%20-%20mallorca/">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Yorkshire","23rd–25th March 2012");?>
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Back to Yorkshire! Excellent pair of trips attempting a Rift / Large exchange, but not making the connection through the rather aquatic duck. Sunday saw a rigging practice in Sunset Hole and a solo revisit to the flooded depths of Joint.
</p>
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2012-03-23.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2012-03-23%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Free and Fair Elections","Tuesday 5th March 2012");?>
Our AGM this year saw another free and fair election, with the usual combination of whimsy and serious deliberation. Our Committee for 2012/2013 (our 50th year) is thus:
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<b>President:</b> Rhys Tyers<br>
<b>Treasurer:</b> Oliver Myerscough<br>
<b>Secretary:</b> Sam Page<br>
<b>Tackle Master:</b> Clare Tan | <b>Foreign Secretary:</b> Jana '5 languages' Carga | <b>Medical Officer:</b> Saber King | <b>Health + Safety Officer:</b> Konrad Domanski<br>
<br>
<b>Awards:</b><br>
<b>For Evans' Sake:</b> Kate Smith for her creative use of vomit, in Yorkshire, Mendips and on the jelly.<br>
<b>Herman Herz:</b> William <i>'my soft lock has forsaken me'</i> French for breaking both heels in Quaking.<br>
<b>"For Evans' Sake" Lifetime Achievement award:</b> J. 'Drink your Own' Evans
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<?php begintextdatebox("Yorkshire BPF","17-19th Feb 2012");?>
<p>
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A beautiful weekend in Yorkshire probing the muddy delights of the Easegill system. Torrential rain on Saturday didn't massively flood the caves, a beautiful bright and icy day on Sunday. Peterson Pot — Mistral, Lancaster Hole, County — Manchester Bypass all probed.</p>
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2012-02-17.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2012-02-17%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Yorkshire","3-5th Feb 2012");?>
<p>
The forecast of SNOWPOCALYPSE put paid to our King Pot plans, as there would be no chance of getting out of Kingsdale. So we defaulted to Clapham, as it's a nice even drive to Greenclose and walked up into the Snowy Dales. Flood-Bar exchanged and the very muddy Jean Pot bottomed. Heavy snow on our return to the surface, and a careful snow-chained drive home. Sunday saw a photo-support trip to Hardrawkin, and a sump sampler session in Joint.
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<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2012-02-03.php">Trip Report</a> | (No Photos Yet)</center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Mendips","20-22nd Jan 2012");?>
<p>
<a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2012-01-20%20-%20mendips/2012-01-21-23.07.30-JarvistFrost-CanonG5-CRW_0391-Shepton%20Mallet%20Hut.html">
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Short round and round! A bit of GB action, some Eastwater Cavern probing and the first trip of 2012 was a classic start to the caving season.
</p>
<center><a href="/caving/mendips/mendip-2012-01-20.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2012-01-20%20-%20mendips/">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Yorkshire - Winter Tour","16-23rd Dec");?>
<p>
<a href="http://union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/photo_archive/tours/2011%20-%20yorkshire%20winter/PC170015.html">
<img align=left src="http://union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/photo_archive/tours/2011%20-%20yorkshire%20winter/PC170015--thumb.jpg">
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Cracking winter tour, we seemed to have the Dales to ourselves. The NPC was empty: we turned up at 2am, all was dark and we thought no one was there, but Dave and Tetley were, tucked up in their beds. The massive oven was put to good use churning out roast dinner after roast dinner. Weather was fairly kind for once, sub zero with snow on the first weekend (but still driveable), a fairly smooth thaw followed by warm foggy weather.</p>
<p>Notts I, Easegill County-Cow, Cow-County, County-Lancs via Cape Kennedy, Lost Johns, Alum Pot, Brown Hill and Rowten Pot all probed.</p>
<center>
<a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2011-winter-tour.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/tours/2011%20-%20yorkshire%20winter/">Photos</a>
</center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Derbyshire - Orpheus Hut","25-27th Nov");?>
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After the disasterous minibus behaviour of the weekend before, we had a free hire to spend! So why not take two buses to Derbyshire?</p>
<p>Believe it or not, this actually worked and over twenty members made it from London to go caving near Castleton. Maskhill, Giants, Peak Caver and P8 were all visited.</p>
<center><a href="/caving/derbyshire/derbyshire-2011-11-25.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2011-11-25%20-%20derbyshire/">Photos</a> </center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Yorkshire - NPC","11-13th November 2011");?>
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Ace weekend at the NPC. Attempted a Dis:Bar:Stream exchange on the Saturday, but Dis' duck was flooded, so became a successful Bar:Stream instead! Unfortunately, we returned to a dead Transit. Made it back to the NPC by shuttling in the cars, ate a fantastic curry, and spent the whole of Sunday faffing with the RAC on our merry way back to London.
<center><a href="http://union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2011-11-11.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2011-11-11%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a>
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<?php begintextdatebox("South Wales - Llangattock","28-30th October 2011");?>
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Lovely little trip to the Llangattock escarpment, staying at the extremely comfortable Whitewalls cottage (CSS). Full frontal assault on Aggy (Ogof Agen Allwedd) breached both the boulder chokes and got everyone to North Western Junction, where the cooks left sedately, leaving the Turkey dreamers to meander upstream and inspec the formations, before slithering downstream down the impressive passage and then exiting. Excellent evening curry. Sunday saw more modest trips, to Eglwys Faen where a hippy-led Cello & multi instrumental concert was in full swing in the main chamber, and Ogof Pen Eryr which has retained its enjoyable corkscrew climb. <br>
<center><a href="/caving/wales/wales-2011-10-28.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2011-10-28%20-%20wales/">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("M2 (Kavkna Jama) Super Action","21st-24th October 2011");?>
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<a href="http://union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2011-10-M2/Jarvist%20M%20Frost%20-%20Canon%20A520%20-%20M2%20Super%20Action%20-%202011-10-22-11.04.54-IMG_0202.html">
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Two Ryanair tickets, one hold bag, one Fiat 500 car hire & a mission. What could possibly go wrong?<br><br>
For once, not much actually. Apart from a self-imposed starvation diet, 273m of survey was brought back, adding an extra hundred to the known depth of M2 and bringing the closest approach with Vrtnarija to within 4m (nb: 1.4km loop, estimated ~30m error), along an easy mud-floored dig taking a huge draught.<br>
<center><a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2011/2011-10-M2.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2011-10-M2/">A few photos...</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Wales I (Fresher trip)","14-16th October 2011");?>
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A new year, and a new crop of freshers to introduce to the delights of caving. Excellent weekend altogether: 3 Trips down OFD - Ed's Shortcut / Salubrious, Top Waterfall & Poached-egg climb / round about everywhere climb. A trip to the Neath valley for Sunday, Little Neath by the wetsuit glad, and a fistful of smaller caves (Town Train, Bridge, White Lady) and a bit of wild swimming outside for the others... Good times!
<center><a href="/caving/wales/wales-2011-10-14.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2011-10-14 - wales/">Photos</a></center>
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Welcome Team 2011!<br>
Come find our stand in Beit Quad during Freshers Fayre (11AM-4PM, Tuesday 4th October), and have a chat to one of our club members.<br><br>
We have an excellent Autumn calendar of trips organised, and plans are afoot for foreign trips during the various university holidays.<br><br>
Since you're here, check out some of our massive website. Thinking big, you may be interested in this Easter's trip to Sardinia (<a href="/caving/photo_archive/tours/2011%20-%20sardinia/dirindex.html">Photos</a>, <a href="/caving/sardinia/caving_spring_tour_report_2011.pdf">PDF Report</a>), our exploration project in Slovenia (<a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2011/">2011 Updates</a>, <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2010/">2010 Photos</a>, <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2009-12-Recce/">Dec 2009 Winter Recce Photos</a>). Closer to home, our weekend trip reports may give you a sense of what to expect: <a href="/caving/mendips/mendip-2011-01-21.php">typical non-rope freshers trip weekend</a>, <a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2010-10-29.php">SRT Yorkshire Weekend</a> and the <a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2010-03-19.php">kind of harder trip</a> we do <a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2011-04-28.php">later in the year</a>, once all you new guys & girls are trained up.
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<p>Jan's put together a great writeup of our recent lightweight trip to Hidden Earth, the yearly national caving conference.</p>
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<a href="/caving/wales/bcra-2011-09-23.php">Hidden Earth 2011 Writeup</a> | <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/116696012908553445015/September2011HiddenEarthMonmouth">Jan's Photos</a>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Izgubljeni Raj 2011","15th July–15th August 2011");?>
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Suddenly it's that time of the year again! Soon we leave our South Ken haunts and haul a minibus of caving gear across Europe to head to a pretty little mountain in Slovenia called Tolminski Migovec.<br><br>
We've some excellent leads and a keen team this year with a clear plan—we're immediately rerigging Vrtnarija (807m deep / 8776m long) to the bottom and setting up Camp X-Ray (-550m) as a hot-bunking 4-bed camp and pushing the multitude of leads from 500-800m deep. On the surface we will be launching trips down Kavkna Jama (M2) in search of the great, elusive, connection.
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During this time we are slaves to the Sistem, so it may seem all a little quiet around here. However, thanks to the wonders of mobile telephony, for the fourth year running, you can follow our every move on twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/iccc">@ICCC</a>.
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<strong>End of August Update: More than 2km of deep cave found! Photos, surveys, tweets and draft report: <a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2011">Izgubljeni Raj 2011</a>.</strong>
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<p>The chief motivator was to get some experience bolt climbing with the new drills and the Raumer stick up, ahead of trying it 'for real' at -800m in Slovenia this summer. Some cheap advanced train tickets to Lancs, three bikes, panniers for the drill batteries and they were away...<br>
Cycling up Kingsdale with cave exploration gear, a suitably retro start to the summer expedition practice...
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<a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2011-06-10.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/jan.evetts/June2011CavingByBikeInYorkshire">Photos on Jan's Picasa</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Yorkshire Royal Weeding","28th April – 1st May 2011");?>
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Excellent three day weekend in Yorkshire ticking off King Pot (7.5hrs), Pennyghent (6hrs) and Meregill (4.5hrs). Fantastic weather, blue skies, sun and enough wind to blow you back down off the hill!
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2011-04-28.php">Trip Report</a> | (No Photos)</center>
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While some of us were jetting off to a Mediterranean isle, the home team completed the excellent JH-Peak through trip...<br>
<center><a href="/caving/derbyshire/derbyshire-2011-03-27.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/jan.evetts/March2011CavingInDerbyshire?feat=directlink#">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Sardinia Easter Tour","27th March – 3rd April 2011");?>
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The Sardinia Easter Tour 2011 was a great success, 10 cavers enjoying the delights of Su Palu (and only Su Palu) via a 5-bed camp established at El Alamein. Day trips were made to Disneyland, Mordor and Sand Creek, with swims in the massive sump lake. Report still to be written...</p>
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/tours/2011%20-%20sardinia/dirindex.html">Photos</a> | <a href="/caving/sardinia/caving_spring_tour_report_2011.pdf">Union Tour Report (3.5mb PDF)</a></center>
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Bullpot farm for the traditional early March Easegill fest. People disappeared in and out of various entrances including Top, Lancs, Cow, Link, WR and County. A massive curry was prepared with the new swish BPC kitchen facilities and eaten at the new long table. Caving games, debauchery & finally a slumbering return to London.
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2011-03-04.php">Report</a> | (Did anyone take any photos?)</center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Derbyshire II", "18-20th February 2011");?>
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Snow and missing kit couldn't stop IC3 delving the depths near Castleton. An excellent weekend of adventure repeatedly rescued from failure.</p>
<center><a href="/caving/derbyshire/derbyshire-2011-02-19.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2011-02-19 - derbyshire/">Photos</a></center>
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A rather aquatic weekend in Yorkshire. Incessent rain constrained our choice of cave somewhat, so it was King and Bull Pot that we delved down on Saturday. Continual torrential rain sunk any motivation of Sunday caving, so a day of fettling and an early return to London instead.
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2011-02-04.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2011-02-04 - yorkshire/">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Mendip I","21st-23rd January 2011");?>
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January saw us kicking off the year with the traditional Mendips cluster faff. Something like 24 cavers down for the weekend, we eloped from the Belfry to the relative quietness (rescue practice in St Cuths) of the Shepton Mallet. Lots of trips had, massive evening of Cornish Pasty and Apple Crumble baking.
<center><a href="/caving/mendips/mendip-2011-01-21.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2011-01-21 - mendips/">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Vodna Sled 2010 Photos","21st January 2011");?>
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Well, it took us a while to get them together, rename them, sort them &
etc., but finally here are all the photos from last summer's expedition to
Slovenia! The Interim report is also mostly finished, and slowly we're getting
organised for this summer's expedition — Izgubljeni Raj (Fri 15th July
2011 – Sun 15th August).
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Current Survex cave data, and previous survey originals are now live: <a href="/caving/slovenia/MigSurveyData/">MigSurveyData</a>, in particular you may be interested in the .3d file for viewing with Aven: <a href="/caving/slovenia/MigSurveyData/migovecsurveydata/mig.3d">mig.3d</a> (200KB).
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We've also prepared a ZIP archive of the photos downscaled to 'slideshow'
resolution of 1024x768 for your offline viewing pleasure: <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2010/VodnaSled2010_Photos_Slideshow_Resolution_1280x1024.zip">VodnaSled2010_Photos_Slideshow_Resolution_1280x1024.zip</a>.
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<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2010/">Vodna Sled 2010 Photos</a></center>
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Ended up a bit of an epic -- everyone had the latest virus, then a 12hr drive to Yorkshire (8PM to 8AM) due to foolish UK drivers blocking a snowy motorway. Temperature continued to drop, but no snow so we could get the 'bus up into the hills. Minus 10-15 degree changes quick got rather tiring, but we managed to crack off Grange Rigg / Christmas Pot, Lost Johns' Dome+Monastry (excellent route!) & a classic Easegill romp.
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2010-winter-tour.php">Report</a> | Photos to come...
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Excellent, but cold, trip to Derbyshire. Oxlow-Maskhill exchange and JH - white river series explore on the Saturday. Late return to the TSG in severe sub zero conditions (frozen harness, frozen minibus doors!).
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<center><a href="http://union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/photo_archive/trips/2010-11-25%20-%20derbyshire/">Photos</a> | <a href="/caving/derbyshire/derbyshire-2010-11-26.php">Trip report</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Yorkshire II","12-14th November 2010");?>
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A rather wet weekend in Yorkshire, staying at the NPC. Gaping Stream, Marilyn + Bar on the Saturday, with Jingling + Bullpot masterclass o nteh side. Sunday saw a lazy afternoon Jingling exchange (Lateral + Direct), as two teams were already down Rowten, and a little delve into Valley Entrance.
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2010-11-12.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2010-11-12 - yorkshire/">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Yorkshire I (Fresher II)","29-31st October 2010");?>
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Ahh, Yorkshire! Well worth the quite frankly ludicrous drive in a speed limited minibus from London. Trips to bottom Lost Johns (Dome + Centipede) and Ireby Fell on the Saturday, rather late supper + a quick delve into Bullpot and Yordas (Kingsdale) on the Sunday. Rather damp underground - made the waterfalls rather impressive!
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2010-10-29.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2010-10-29 - yorkshire/">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Luxmore Caves (Fiordland, New Zealand)","15-16th October 2010");?>
<p>The sun never sets on the IC<sup>3</sup> caving empire!<br>
Quite literally while we were sleeping during our Welsh freshers trip, Andy and Toni were dipping their helmets in some of the caves that New Zealand have to offer...
<center><a href="/caving/newzealand/newzealand-2010-10-15.php">Report</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Wales I (Fresher I)","15-17th October 2010");?>
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Great first trip of the year! Weather was unbelievably good, and we managed two fantastic trips down OFD + some delightfully wet bimbles into Little Neath, Bridge Cave, White Lady, Cwm Pwll y Rydd and Town Drain.<br>
WSG cottage was nice and cosy, caving games by the fireside, the usual morning fry ups & an epic chilli.
<center> <a href="/caving/wales/wales-2010-10-15.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2010-10-15%20-%20wales/">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Pre Term Trip - Yorkshire 0","1-3rd October 2010");?>
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Beautiful little start to the caving year, with a pre-term trip to the wonders of the Yorkshire Dales. Nice solid trips down King Pot and Marble Steps, and a bit of doube-cave rig and derig practice for some of the 2nd years in Bullpot + Jingling, via the really quite nice new P-bolt lateral route. Appalling weather, play was rained off on Sunday.
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2010-10-01.php">Little Trip Report</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Hidden Earth","24-26th September 2010");?>
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This year's BCRA conference, <a href="http://hidden-earth.org.uk/">Hidden Earth 2010</a>, was really enjoyable. Five of us made it along and saw talks of the great expeditions that have been going on over the last year, and excellent results from digging in the UK. There was a really good vibe this year at the conference - helped I'm sure in no small part to the increasing postitive media exposure over the summer most notably with the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1296308/Into-abyss-Stretching-counties-70-miles-inside-Britains-vast-newly-pioneered-cave-system.html">Ireby-Rift</a> connection; the <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/840950-british-led-dive-team-break-record-with-8-8km-cave-dive">8.8km success of the Pozo Azul expedition</a>; and the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303152/A-mile-daylight-4-145-feet--deepest-British-caver-been.html">Culiembro dive into Xitu</a>.
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There's also been an increasing appearence of epic cave shots as the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1296308/Into-abyss-Stretching-counties-70-miles-inside-Britains-vast-newly-pioneered-cave-system.html">centrefolds of Sunday papers</a>.<br>
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Closer to our own aspirations, there were a number of talks from university caving clubs: Cambridge UCC continued their exploration of the Loser plateau; York UCPC continued their systematic shaft bashing in the <a href="http://www.yucpc.org.uk/expeditions/2010_montenegro/index.php">Durmitor region, Montenegro</a>; Sheffield USS returned <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/union/news.php?contentID=10378">'back to the fissures'</a> in Crete; and the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=326434950043">Dachstein open expedition</a> continued their very succesful 'pincer' operation with a winter expedition to the lower extensive Hirlatz Hole horizontal level, and a summer expedition pushing the deep pots from the plateau above.<br>
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Many thanks to all those who came to our own talk on Tolminski Migovec - the slides are linked below should you wish to have a look. We were very pressed for time (107 slides in 30 minutes!), so the talk focuses very tightly on this year's discoveries in Vrtnarija rather than give a more general overview of the expedition, caves, or cavers!<br>
<center><a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2010/gw_2010-09-04.pdf">Draft Survey - (PDF, 496KB)</a></center>
<center>Vodna Sled 2010 Hidden Earth Slides: <a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2010/2010-hidden-earth_vodna_sled_recompress.pdf">PDF for viewing (25mb)</a> | <a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2010/2010-hidden-earth_vodna_sled_recompress.odp">Openoffice Presentation for Editing</a></center>
<center><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I54hlukVHyg">UG Camp Footage (YouTube)</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Vrtnarija a new 2.2km, all below -500m","August 2010");?>
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Vodna Sled 2010 was an epic success - in all we discovered 2.2km of new passage, all below -500m, all in Vrtnarija using Camp X-Ray (Reloaded, four bed camp) -550m as a base. <br>
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Vrtnarija is now 8776/807m, 7th longest and 12th deepest cave in Slovenia. Connection with System Migovec (11300/970m) would yield a 20.075km system. Only 500m of additional passage would be necessary to make it the longest system in Slovenia.<br>
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The considerable discoveries this year are not ours to be proud of - they're a natural feature of the mountain that we've been honoured to shed first light on.
Our achievement is in the logistical effort, team work and sheer determination that saw us rerigging (600m of new rope) to -550m within two days, safely taking first-year cavers to a deep underground camp and having so many cavers spending so long productively at depth in an alpine system.
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<center><a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2010/interim_report.php">Interim Report</a></center><br>
<center><a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2010/Tolmin2010.pdf">Tolmin 2010 Slides (18MB, PDF)</a> | <a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2010/s_garden.3d">Aven 1.1.x Centreline Data (52KB, 3D)</a>
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<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2010/edited_for_PDT_website/dirindex.html">A Few Medium Res Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Vodna Sled, Slovenia","July/August 2010");?>
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It's that time of the year again when we decamp from our South Ken base, pack most of the contents of stores into a load of blue barrels, and set out across Europe to <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=46.25+13.76&ll=46.25,13.76&spn=0.028252,0.086517&t=k&om=1">Tolminski Migovec, Slovenia</a>. This year we're making a 4-bed camp down at X-Ray, Friendship Gallery (-550m) giving us access to the deep leads in Vrtnarija (Tolminski Korita, Republica, Muddy Window; leads with a lowercase l, leopard, ballamory, bolt climbing strap-on-the-nitro and to-infinity-and-beyond).
<br>From the surface the main bounce trips will down Kavkna Jama / M2 (~-380m) & Captain Kangaroo - Vrtnarija (~-250-360m) to try and force a connection. And of course, we'll be looking for the next decade's work on the surface, in particular following up the GPS coordinates from the <a href="http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2009-12-Recce/">blowing holes recce</a> earlier this year.<br>
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Hopefully we'll be too busy finding cave to update this webpage much, but we should be able to twitter our discoveries from the mountaintop, and maybe even get some photos onto our facebook page:<br>
<center><a href="http://twitter.com/iccc">Follow us on Twitter @ICCC</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/London-United-Kingdom/Imperial-College-Caving-Club-ICCC/173461250075">Facebook Page</a> | <a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2010/">Vodna Sled 2010 Expedition Page</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Kingsdale Back and Forth, Yorkshire","16-18th April 2010");?>
<p>Sunny, summery weekend in Yorkshire. Brown Hill, Swinsto / Simpson Pot exchange, Brown Hill + Somewhere East (Bullpot?) on the Sunday. A few photos from Brown Hill and an extremely pleasant weekend out of London.
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2010-04-16.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2010-04-16%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a></center>
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The sun was shining, term was ending... time to get back down the Pilgrim's Way and taste Penyghent pot's veritable delights!
<center><a class="menu" href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2010-06-18.php">Report</a>
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<?php begintextdatebox("King Pot, Yorkshire","19-21st March 2010");?>
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Another year, another set of 1st years to introduce to the vertiable delights of the king of Kingsdale. For some peculiar reason (claiming work, illness, home renovations & etc.), most experienced cavers dropped out leaving a hardcore of bright eyed bushy tails and the very dregs of 'too far gone' leadership from the dusty bottom of stores to power their way down to Kokemono and back in a relaxing 10hr trip. Stunning stars and meteorites when we got out to the frozen yet crystal clear moor.<br>
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2010-03-19%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a> | <a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2010-03-19.php">Trip report</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Easegill, Yorkshire","5-7th March 2010");?>
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A long overdue return to Bullpot Farm. Weather was fantastic, deep freeze during the night, blue skies and beating sun during the day. The building works at the farm are all complete (underfloor heating in the changing room! working showers!), there's a new working oven in the kitchen & the wood stock is full!<br>
Great trips down Easegill, Top-Lancs, and a Lancs-County via Manchester Bypass. Sunday saw a gentle bimble on the warm hills, and brief forays into Lanc and Top to derig.
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<?php begintextdatebox("Out & around Penyghent","5-7th Feb 2010");?>
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Penyghent Pot - what a lovely cave! Perhaps not the best weather to do it in, what with the freezing hill fog, the melt-water from the snow plugs gurgling down the Pilgrim's Way and random sprigots of water entering the cave through every available orifice. Sell Gill was also encountered, and a completely inappropriately dressed walk to the pen-y-ghent peak itself, sliding on the refrozen snow in our city shoes.
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2010-02-05%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a> | Someone write a trip report...</center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Mendips Round and Round","22-24th Jan 2010");?>
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Lovely little trip to the 'Dip. Two short round trips, a trip to Sump 4, two counter flow round trips, a full sniffing out of every last bit of GB and a little jolly to the Swildons upper series. Lovely roast at the Belfry, crumble is good!
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2010-01-22%20-%20mendips/">Photos</a> | <a href="/caving/mendips/mendip-2010-01-22.php">Trip Report</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Slovenian Winter Recce","29-30th Dec 2009");?>
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The trip started, as all good things do, with a 5AM alpine start; we caught the first train out of Most Na Soci and through the Julian alps to Bohinjska Bistrica, then a bus to Hotel Zlatorog near Savica (the possible Black Sea resurgance for the Migovec systems). With ice axe and crampons a quick 1.2km of ascent saw us up on our beloved plateau, with Tolminski Kuk brooding in the cloud layer. Based at Dom na Komni, we spent the next day in poor viz logging 5 new blow holes and having a look at the N1-3 entrances.
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2009-12-Recce/">Photos</a> | Report to be written</center>
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<p>White out! Yorkshire absolutely stunning looking with a good metre of snow up on the Dales. Beautiful caving once underground, but getting the transit up the snowed out roads was impossible.<br>
Still, had a great day on Leck fell (walking from Leck) bottoming Notts I and getting some Lost Johns' action in. Monday expedition to Gaping saw a brilliant Bar-Stream-Dis meta exchange; a great day of caving for all involved, no matter what experience.<br>
Greenclose was an absolute delight; warm fires, comfy beds, & ace showers.
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2009-winter-tour.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/tours/2009%20-%20yorkshire%20winter/">Photos</a>(More to be uploaded)</center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Derbyshire","27-29th November 2009");?>
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Derbyshire! And naturally, it was rather chilly. As we approached Castleton we could see the snow up on the peaks. Winnats pass was open, and we abandoned the bus on the sodden verge as there were dozen cars festooning the road. We assumed it meant millions of maillons down the entrance pitch - but was actually just one exchange trip, with each person in a separate car! Storming trip down and out, shot home to the Orpheus as the snow closed in to the roaring coal fires and a truly stuffing curry. Sunday saw us investigate the legends of Derbyshire caves worth doing which were not in Castleton...
<center><a href="http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/photo_archive/trips/2009-11-27%20-%20derbyshire/">Photos</a> | <a href="/caving/derbyshire/derbyshire-2009-11-27.php">Trip report</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Yorkshire Freshers SRT Trip","12-15th November 2009");?>
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An aquatic but extremely fun weekend. Saturday saw three trips gently probing the mighty Easegill system, followed by a massive Chili at the NPC. Sunday saw us in Kingsdale (surprise!) experiencing the joys of underground waterfalls.
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2009-11-13.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2009-11-13 - yorkshire/">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Second Freshers Trip","30th October - 1st November 2009");?>
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A wet weekend on the Llangattock escarpment! There were issues with capturing an Aggy key, so the Saturday was spent in the double whammy of Eglwys Faen (AKA Grafitti cave, or at least it should be...) and the short but sweet Ogof Pen Eryr. An inch of rain fell during Saturday night, so the path & caves were rather aquatic on the Sunday. Had a little explore down Aggy, but failed to find our way through the first choke.
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2009-10-30%20-%20wales/">Photos</a> | <a href="/caving/wales/wales-2009-10-30.php">Report</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("First Freshers Trip","16-18th October 2009");?>
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A lovely start to the new year with a couple of adventurous trips down <a href="http://ogof.net">Ogof Ffynnon Ddu (Cave of the Black Spring)</a> on the Saturday. The cute little WSG hut made for a great evening eating, drinking and playing silly caving games. Sunday saw everyone donning wetsuits, and setting out for DYO and Little Neath, where much swimming and gaping at the formations took place.
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<?php begintextdatebox("Pre term trip","2nd-4th October 2009");?>
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Just back from a stonking Yorkshire classic. Tim and James did not drown, Leo got someone to carry air for him, Magdalena tried the underground out, Aleeza back on the ropes, Dan and Nathan lost on the moors, Jarv got to the spiral staircase. Jana enjoyed a swing.</p>
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2009-10-02.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2009-10-02%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a - more coming</center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Hidden Earth","26-27th Sept 2009");?>
<p>Just back from a great weekend at the <a href="http://hidden-earth.org.uk">BCRA 'Hidden Earth' Annual conference</a>. Lots of interesting talks about some great caving going down over the last year - British interest in the ex-Jugoslavian countries is ever increasing. Not that surprising considering how much limestone there is!<br>
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Our talk seemed to be fairly well received, though I (Jarv) fluffed a lot of my lines + forgot some of the things I was meant to mention. Still, slides are here for reference:<br>
<center><a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2009/BCRA%202009%20-%20Jarvist%20Frost.pdf">BCRA 2009 Talk - PDF (14MB)</a> | <a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2009/BCRA%202009%20-%20Jarvist%20Frost.odp">BCRA 2009 Talk - Openoffice (13MB)</a></center>
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I know, I know - we've been back two weeks and there's still very little info on the expo up on the web! Everyone's busy moving house / sorting accomodation / catching up with work, so please bear with us. We'll be presenting a lecture at the annual British caving conference, <a href="http://hidden-earth.org.uk/">Hidden Earth 25-27th Sept 2009</a>, so will hopefully have some kind of survey drawn up by then.<br>
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2009/">More digi photos...</a> (Films @ the lab)</center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("And we're back...","24th August 2009");?>
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Wonderfully succesful expedition! Found just under a kilometre of cave, most of it in Vrtnarija and at depths from 250-550m. Found a stream below Dark Tranquility and followed it down to connect with Friendship gallery. Most stunning find of the year was the enormous 81m Happy Monday pitch - <a href="/caving/FILES/CRW_0286.jpg">Digi Photo</a>. It's the largest in Vrtnarija with an enormous 20m by 20m boulder choke chamber.<br><br>
We gave a talk in the Tolmin library at the end of expo, all the subtitles are in Slovene, but it's mainly photos: <a href="/caving/FILES/mig%202009%20talk.ppt">Powerpoint File</a>.
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<a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2009/slideshow%20photos/">High Res Versions</a> of the slideshow photos. All from this year, almost all new finds.
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The green crates are packed with a years food<br>
The Bivi mice sniff the cool air expectantly<br>
Our new rope soaks off its white soap<br>
After eleven months of darkness Dangermouse babbles peacefully<br>
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In 2008 we found over a kilometre of new cave, but failed to make the great connection. And now we go back, better prepared than ever, with the last year spent sharpening our chisels, fettling cordless hammerdrills, lathing steel, building battery packs and stitching bash proof cases out of old neoprene. A replenished stock of fleece, sleeping bags and rollmats, along with the most gracious sponsorship of ultrawarm microfleece bespoke garments from <a href="http://beastproducts.co.uk">Beast</a> will make for a most comfy underground base camp somewhere near the Dangermouse water.
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If we don't find the connection, nor push Dark Tranquility to its end (quite possibly/probably 500m further down), it will not be through lack of trying.
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<i>There must be a begynning of any great matter, but the continewing unto the end untyll it be thoroughly finished yeldes the true glory</i> - Francis Drake
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Stonking + full up minibus trip! Stunning weather, barely a cloud in the sky. BBQ at the NPC on Saturday night, and entertaining caving games with the Reading lot. Sunday saw an escape to Easgill + an attempt at a Cow - Link exchange, plus a bit of swimming Cow Dubs (some unintentional!) for the sun lovers.
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2009-05-25.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2009-05-25%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a></center>
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<p>Taking advantage of the quieter of the two May long weekends, we zoomed up to Yorkshire in Tim's tiny Polo. Was a bit of a squeeze with 4 rather large cavers, and then we had to do the shopping! James and Andy came up via Nottingham. Threw Leo (our new crossover Diver-Caver) in at the deepend and raced across on a Top-Lancs trip (after first rigging Lancs, natch). Sunday saw a probing of the (newly P-bolted) King, and Monday found us descending Rowten in the rain. Probably the first time I've ever looked forward to getting down Rowten as a way of warming up!</p>
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2009-05-01.php">Trip Report</a> | Photos Lost?</center>
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<p>A lovely little weekend freed from the yoke of the minibus. Did a great JH-Peak through trip via the White River series with Jim on the Saturday, popping back up on the Sunday for a speedy derig. The White River was stunning - 'like the fat from a billion sausages', poured off and congealed on the floor of the cave.
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Speleo Sportive Dans Le Vercors! Just back from a stunning Eurostar/TVG powered trip down to the Vercors. Sticky melting snow kept us off the high peaks, but we nevertheless found a worthy adversory in the form of Scialet de Gay Bunny, enjoyed the Saints de Glace and paddled around in a boat in the De Grournier (sic).
<center><a href="/caving/france/vercors-2009-04.php">Vercors 2009 Writeup</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/tours/2009%20-%20vercors/">Photos</a></center>
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Last minibus trip of the (main) academic calendar - and absolutely stonking it was! Elevan people exchanging via Maskhill Oxlow in an afternoon of efficiency and smooth action (last one out 5 1/2 hrs after first in). Comedy rescue spectacle in Peak on the Saturday night, followed by a trip into Peak for the motivated on the Sunday, and a trip up Victoria aven to look at the rigging for the truly mud-orientated.
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2009-03-20%20-%20derbyshire/">Photos</a> | <a href="/caving/derbyshire/derbyshire-2009-03-20.php">Report</a></center>
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Absolutely stunning trip to Slovenia over the long weekend. So much snow that Mala Boka wasn't doable, but had a great time winter mountaineering up to the top entrance of Poloska in the stunning mediterranean sun, before completing a speedy through trip. Sunday saw a day of snow sledging and warm jacuzzi over in Bocinj. Naturally, more injuries were sustained sledging into trees and racing each other through the water chutes than caving or mountaineering.
<center><a href="/caving/slovenia/slovenia-2009-02-27.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2009-02-Poloska/">Photos</a></center>
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Ah, the delight of the NPC! This time we had plans for the Allotment, and with a good forecast set off for Juniper Gulf, Christmas Pot and Grange Rigg. Things started to immediately go wrong, most distressing of all being the 4m visibility after the fug descended on the barren and featureless moor. Safe return for all after a i) following a cunningly installed one quid fifty LED back to the gate ii) unintended descent to Clapham iii) GPS pick-me-up from JG. Sunday saw Yordas and Heron being slithered down in Kingsdale - everyone rather tired!
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2009-01-20.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2009-02-20%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a></center></p>
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Nice to be back to the Belfry, this time with fewer unbooked university clubs turning up to vomit on our clothing and snuggle up to us at night! The more worked in set off on a Swildons Short-Round with the fine direction of El Tet, a bounce to the sump and a GB investigation (up the comedy climb - only took one spreader with them - oops!). Sunday saw a St Cuths trip courtesy of Mad Phil, before a Megabus return to London.
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James KP has written up his experiences on winter tour with ICCC bolting up a chimney above a 30m pitch to shine light for the first time on some beautiful cave. Few photos, as this really is the limit of exploration - so you'll have to use your imagination!
<br><br>Submitted to Felix, so keep your eyes peeled...
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Our Winter tour to Yorkshire was a densely packed week of some of the best caving on offer in the UK. We had deep rope trips, novel exploration by the boys with the Bosch GBH aid climbing their way up a 10m chimney above a 35m pitch (alas, the chimney led not to Santa, but to a choked bedding plane), epic expeds through the might of the Easegill system, decadent consumption of roast dinners and the usual caving hut shenanigans.
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Too much snow to get to BPF, so dumped bus on the ice floe that was the NPC carpark.<br>
King (to King Henry hall + back) & Tatham Wife on Sat - sledged down off the fell by the light of the moon on the 20cm of snow.<br>
Sunday saw a Simpson Pot pull through to Valley Entrance, and a spot of Inglesport-bag sledging up Chapel-le-Dale.
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2008-12-05.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-12-05%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a></center>
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Stomping trip to Yorks. Had the NPC to ourself, and a permit for Lost Johns where we had an absolutely stellar trip on the Saturday with a badly planned arduous derig. Saturday saw a trip to Yordas in Kingsdale. Sub zero outside for most of the weekend, but that wouldn't stop us!
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2008-11-21.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-11-21%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Votla Gora 2008 Interim Report","Nov 2008");?>
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We've finally banged out a couple of thousand words on our extremely succesful 5-week summer expedition exploring Tolminski Migovec in Western Slovenia. We'll definitely be back in Summer 2009, with a concrete plan for Underground Camp in Captain Kangaroo now that we've found a faithful stream of drinking water in Dangermouse. Read to get acquainted...
<center><a href="/caving/wiki.php?n=Main.VotlaGora2008InterimReport">Votla Gora 2008 Interim Report</a>| <a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2008/">Photos + Surveys</a></center>
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Well, the 'fireworks' trip got off to a rather ignoble start when we wandered forgetfully past the cut-price fire sticks in Tescos on our quest for fried breakfast material. So we settled for an epic Saturday exchange trip down Gaping Gill (Flood + Bar), played frisbee & lit up the place with a 15'000 candela hand flare. Sunday saw the determined head down Valley Entrance to giggle at the sumps.
<center><a href="/caving/mendips/mendip-2008-10-31.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-11-07%20-%20yorkshire/dirindex.html">Photos</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ig-o31VhBI">Youtube Flare Vid</a></center>
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Great set of wet 'n' wild trips this weekend.<br>
1) Went straight to the cave on Friday evening (1am) and caved through the night to avoid the crowds in Swildons (Hallo'ween party with real bats...).<br>
2) Crawled out of bed midday on Saturday before zooming off for more underground rivers in Charterhouse.<br>
3) Absolutely fantastic meal in the super comfy Belfry hut, before getting the bare necessary of shut-eye and then taking on some sump free-diving on Sunday to achieve the Black Hole.<br>
<center><a href="/caving/mendips/mendip-2008-10-31.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-31%20-%20mendip/">Some Photos</a></center>
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Lovely start to the year down at the SWCC cottage next door to the mighty Ogof Fynnon Ddu system. Big Saturday trip with all the teams meeting up underground at the impressive Top Waterfall. Sunday saw the committed exploring OFD II off the beaten track, following our noses and finding little gems everywhere.
<center><a href="/caving/wales/wales-2008-10-17.php">Report</a> | <a href="http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-17%20-%20wales/">A Few Photos (more to come)</a></center>
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Having finally run out of excuses, a one-man team from ICCC set off on the train to Abergavenny to join the Daren diggers at their Hard Rock Cafe. An amazing weekend to join the Daren crew, a wonderful time had stumbling around the enormity of this complex cave.
<center><a href="/caving/daren/daren-2008-10-10.php">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-10%20-%20daren%20camp/">A few photos...</a>
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Quickly quickly before all the undergraduates arrived, we shot off for a little weekend trip with the JN/EXSS group of the physics department to enjoy the pleasure of Top Entrance (<a href="http://ogof.net">OFD</a>) and the perverse delights of evening games in the WSG hut. Major washout on the Saturday which prevented us from venturing to the streamway, rain had stopped by Sunday lunch in time for a beautiful walk up a hill in the Brecons.
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Just in time for Hidden Earth, we have a 90% complete M2/GW survey. <br>
<a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2008/gw_m2_2008.pdf">Vrtnarija/M2 2008 [PDF]</a><br>
<a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2008/gw_m2_2008.svg">Vrtnarija/M2 2008 [Inkscape SVG]</a>. <br>
All <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2008/">photos are up on the website</a>.
<br><a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2008/bcra_2008.pdf">75-Slide BCRA Hidden Earth Talk [PDF]</a>
<center><i>"Nothing would happen if not for the last minute."</i> My old Physics Tutor</center>
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How to explain expedition fever? The call of the unknown, the burning desire to stand once again on the pushing front... stumbling home from a caving trip over the moonscape of the plateau to greet the warm glow of the fire in the Bivvi... the ring of the hammer as you place the bolts to abseil down a new pit... the solitude of climbing in darkness, the warm glow of humanity when returned to your company... But such concerns do not convince your supervisor or bank manager to elope for 5 whole weeks.<br>
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So to speak objectively, we have the genuine possibility of connecting Vrtnarija to Sistem Migovec and forming the 2nd longest cave in Slovenia (Postojna, number 1 slot, can only be fully explored by cave diving). The distance between Vrtnarija and M2 (Sistem Migovec) was closed to 30m at closest approach by the end of 2007 (error guessed at circa. 50m). We have a mountain that sits on the watershed between the Adriatic and Black Sea, with possibily the most complicated alpine speleogenesis in the world, and a whole host of secrets to unlock. We have new caves descending into blank mountain, and deep leads near the bottom of Vrtnarija that must be pushed soon before the decay of the bolts puts them beyond reach.<br>
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But anyway, the controls are set for the heart of <a href="/caving/photo_archive/surveys/mig_dem/experimental_jarvist/hollow_mountain_labelled_jarv copy.html">the hollow mountain</a>, Andreja reports from Migovec that there is still some <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2006-teacher/Tetley at the bivvy.html">snow</a> in the <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2007/martin mcgowan -bivi nights.html">bivi</a>, rope is washed and prepped, Lidl has been abused, and the days are counting down...
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<center><a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2008/">Votla Gora 2008</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2008/">2008 Photos</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/iccc">Twitter Expo Newsfeed</a> | <a href="/caving/slovenia/slov2007/">2007 Info + Surveys</a> | <a href="/caving/slovenia/intro/slov_intro.php">1974-2006 Written Report: The Hollow Mountain</a>
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Amazing long weekend in Italy, hospitality by the Kirkpatrick family in the beautiful Asiago (a plateau surrounded by a ring of cavernous peaks), leadership courtesy of the Italian cavers Luca and Massimo (sic.). Was lovely to be back in the cool welcome of an alpine system! Bounced to ~300+m on the Saturday trip and an easy ~200m+ on the Sunday, before driving to Padova to be fed, watered and housed by the Kirkpatricks once more before an early morning flight home.
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Lovely trip to Yorks, got down Avalanche via a speedy Bar Pot entrance and surveyed up to Rainbow in Avalanche with the clever new laser rangefinder. Midges were hungry when we came out. Had a lovely midnight walk back up to the gill when it transpired that the early exiters had (re)hidden the mobile a little too well!<br>
Sunday... well, the weather was far too pleasent. A leisurely breakfast, then a big 12km loop walk up Pen-y-ghent sampling the finest artisan icecream I've ever tasted at Horton-in-ribblesdale post office. Sunburnt drive home.
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An early return to Avalanche was demanded, this time with rather more conventional caving transport thanks to TomB's family car. Alas, illness turned the push trip into a photo trip, but a wonderful trip down Gaping Gill was had, via Flood. The three vegetarians pushed on to Avalanche for a 8 hour trip including the derig, the carnivores exited after a view of the way to Stream to get cooking.
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<strong>Withnail:</strong> <i>All right, this is the plan. We get in there and get wrecked. Then we'll eat a pork pie. Then we drop a couple of Surmontil 50s each; means we'll miss out Monday but come up smiling Tuesday morning.</i>
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24 hr Train-powered run on Gaping Gill was a success; inital probing into Avalanche inlet was made, bivi'ing next to Bar pot was perfectly pleasent until waking at dawn to a snow dusted dale, with the olive oil frozen solid.<br><br>
<center><a href="/caving/wiki.php?n=Main.AvalancheInletGapingGill">Notes from the Coal Face</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-04-08%20-%20avalanche1/">A few on-camera-flash photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Croatia Spring Tour","23-31st March 2008");?>
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Amazing trip to Croatia, organised by our excellent hosts Darko Baksic, Igor Jelenic, Teo Barisic and the Zadar caving club. Arrived in a blizzard, which thwarted our underground camp + exploration plans, but got to see an amazing variety of Croatian caves across the limestone backbone.<br>
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The Sibenik club report of being gatecrashed by the english at their <a href="http://www.sv-mihovil.hr/?a=mihovil&tip=3&id=108">Speleo Camp</a>.<br>
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<center><a href="/caving/wiki.php?n=Main.Croatia2008Writeup">Croatia 2008 Writeup</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/tours/2008%20-%20croatia/">Photos</a></center>
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