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<br>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Union meet, Tuesday 7pm onwards","");?>
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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://groupspaces.com/iccc/api/api.js?wid=55"></script><noscript><a href="http://groupspaces.com/iccc/calendar">View Calendar</a></noscript>
<img align=right src="barebum_blue.gif">
<!--Welcome to the ICCC webpage, here you can read past trip reports, look at the <a href="calender.php">calendar</a> for upcoming events, browse the <a href="/caving/photo_archive">photo archive</a> and find out <a href="new_member.php">what caving's all about</a>.
<br>You may also be interested in nearly a decade of ongoing exploration of deep cave systems in <a href="/caving/slovenia/intro/slov_intro.php">Slovenia</a>, forty years of various escapades in our <a href="lib/lib.php">Newsletters</a> and information about our rather frivolous <a href="awards.php">yearly awards</a>.
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<b>Mini <a href="calender.php">calendar</a>:</b><br>
<br>
<b>Autumn 2008:</b>
<br><b>Nov 7-9th</b> - Yorkshire, NPC - Gaping Gill Extravaganza <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=33370908748">Facehook Event</a>
<br><b>Nov 21-23rd</b> - CHECC, Derbyshire
<br><b>Dec 5-7th</b> - Yorkshire, BPF
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<?php begintextdatebox("The Mendips","31st Oct - 2nd Nov 2008");?>
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<a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-31%20-%20mendip/jarvist%20frost%20-%20crw_4942.html">
<img align=left src="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-31%20-%20mendip/jarvist%20frost%20-%20crw_4942--thumb.jpg">
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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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<?php begintextdatebox("South Wales","17-19th Oct 2008");?>
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<a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-17%20-%20wales/jarvist%20frost%20a520%20vivitar%20283%20-%20ofd2%20-%20streamway%20towards%20top%20-%20oxbowe%20-%20aleeza%20climb%20down%20ceiling%20hole.html">
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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="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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<?php begintextdatebox("46 Hours in Daren Cilau","10-12th Oct 2008");?>
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<a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-10%20-%20daren%20camp/jarvist%20frost%20-%20hrc%20from%20flower%20garden%20crop.html">
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<a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-10%20-%20daren%20camp/jarvist%20frost%20-%20honeymoon%20suite%20with%20the%20cockeral%20in%20place.html">
<img align=right src="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-10%20-%20daren%20camp/jarvist%20frost%20-%20honeymoon%20suite%20with%20the%20cockeral%20in%20place--thumb.jpg">
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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. A few photos and a quick writeup to come...
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-10%20-%20daren%20camp/">A few photos...</a>
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<?php begintextdatebox("PhD Freshers OFD/WSG Trip 2008", "3-5th Oct 2008");?>
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<a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-03%20-%20wales/jarvist%20frost%20-%20cascade_slow_exposure.html">
<img align=left src="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-03%20-%20wales/jarvist%20frost%20-%20cascade_slow_exposure--thumb.jpg">
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<a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-03%20-%20wales/justin%20dane%20-%20nikon%20d40%20-%20webres_DSC_2003.html">
<img align=right src="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-03%20-%20wales/justin%20dane%20-%20nikon%20d40%20-%20webres_DSC_2003--thumb.jpg">
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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.
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-03%20-%20wales/">Photos!</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Hidden Earth 2008","27-28th August 2008");?>
<p>
<a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2008/Jarvist%20Frost%20-%20canon%20a520%20-%20gw%20-%20ck%20bonus%20chamber%20paul%20approaching%20pool.html">
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<a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2008/Jarvist%20Frost%20-%20canon%20a520%20-plopzilla%20-%20looking%20up%20paul%20nearly%20at%20first%20rebelay.html">
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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 of <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2008/">Jarv's photos are up on the website</a>, others still to come.
<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 1st Yr Physics Tutor</center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Votla Gora 2008","19th July-24th August, 5 weeks");?>
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<a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2008/survex%20-%202007%20data%20-%20m2%20vrtnarija%20closest%20approach.html">
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<a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2008/food/lidl.html">
<img align=left src="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2008/food/lidl--thumb.jpg">
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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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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...
<br>
<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>
</center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Italy, Asiago","13-16th June 2008");?>
<p>
<a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/italy%20-%202008-06-13/jarvist%20frost%20-%20abisso%20est%20-fratnik%20descending%20first%20pitch1.html">
<img align=left src="/caving/photo_archive/trips/italy%20-%202008-06-13/jarvist%20frost%20-%20abisso%20est%20-fratnik%20descending%20first%20pitch1--thumb.jpg">
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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.
<center>If you're lucky, someone might have written a <a href="/caving/wiki.php?n=Trip.Italy-2008-06-13">Trip Report</a> and maybe even uploaded some <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/italy%20-%202008-06-13">Photos</a></center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Yorkshire: Avalanche Survey","6-8th June 2008");?>
<p>
<a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-06-06%20-%20yorkshire/jana%20carga%20-%20442.html">
<img align=left src="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-06-06%20-%20yorkshire/jana%20carga%20-%20442--thumb.jpg">
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<img align=right src="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-06-06%20-%20yorkshire/jana%20carga%20-%20432--thumb.jpg">
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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.
<center>
<a href="/caving/wiki.php?n=Trip.Yorkshire-2008-06-06">Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-06-06%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos (of the walk)</a>
</center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Yorkshire: Flood -> Avalanche","25-27th April 2008");?>
<p>
<a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-04-25%20-%20avalanche2/jarvist%20frost%20-%20canon%20a520%20vivitar%20283%20-gaping%20gill%20main%20chamber%20-%2015s%20exposure%20from%20shelf%20near%20rescue%20barrel.html">
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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.
<center>
<a href="/caving/wiki.php?n=Trip.Yorkshire-2008-04-25">Trip Report (Wiki)</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-04-25%20-%20avalanche2/">Photos</a>
</center>
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<?php begintextdatebox("Avalanche Inlet Push","8-9th April 2008");?>
<p>
<a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-04-08%20-%20avalanche1/rainbow%20inlet%20jarvist%20frost%20long%20exposure%20ambient%20light%20from%20rock%20shelf.html">
<img align=left src="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-04-08%20-%20avalanche1/rainbow%20inlet%20jarvist%20frost%20long%20exposure%20ambient%20light%20from%20rock%20shelf--thumb.jpg">
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<a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-04-08%20-%20avalanche1/rainbow%20inlet%20cave%20pearls2.html">
<img align=right src="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-04-08%20-%20avalanche1/rainbow%20inlet%20cave%20pearls2--thumb.jpg">
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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>
<br><br>
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");?>
<p>
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<img align=left src="/caving/photo_archive/tours/2008%20-%20croatia/quarry%20cave%20near%20gracac%20-%20jarvist%20frost%20a520%20-below14--thumb.jpg">
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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>
<br>
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>
<br>
<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>
</p>
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<?php begintextdatebox("AGM","11th March 2008");?>
<p>
<a href="/caving/photo_archive/mugshots/tom%20jenkins.html">
<img align=left src="/caving/photo_archive/mugshots/tom%20jenkins--thumb.jpg">
</a>
<a href="/caving/photo_archive/mugshots/james%20kirkpatrick.html">
<img align=left src="/caving/photo_archive/mugshots/james%20kirkpatrick--thumb.jpg">
</a>
<a href="/caving/photo_archive/mugshots/jamie%20perrelet.html">
<img align=left src="/caving/photo_archive/mugshots/jamie%20perrelet--thumb.jpg">
</a>
Your brand-spanking new-to-you committee is:<br>
<strong>President:</strong> Paul Hutton<br>
<strong>Treasurer:</strong> Ben Banfield<br>
<strong>Secretary:</strong> Jarvist Frost<br>
<br>
<strong>Tackle Meister:</strong> Tom Jenkins (Mentored by Jarv)<br>
<strong>Social Secretary:</strong> Jamie Perrelet<br>
<strong>Foreign Secretary:</strong> James Kirkpatrick<br>
<br>
Awards:<br>
<strong>Herman Hertz:</strong> Jana Carga for her 'my-traverse-line-has-forsaken-me' freeclimbing near death moment in Prima Dona<br>
<strong>For Evans' Sake:</strong> TomB for his puppetry of the Penis in the Bivi, including the Tobasco incident.
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<p>A double-caving birthday was enjoyed at Bullpot Farm, taking in the usual Easegill classics as well as a slightly more off-the-beaten-track trudge to Cape Kennedy, admiring the impressive and very manly formations, while remembering the navigation to and fro the 88-pitch.<br>
Birthday cake and Slovene pancakes enjoyed in the farm, with a Guitar / Fiddle Jazz Duo concert in front of the fire...
<center><a href="/caving/wiki.php?n=Trip.yorkshire-2008-03-07">Trip Report (Wiki)</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-03-07%20-%20yorkshire">(Outside) Photos</a></center>
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<p>The threat of actually doing some serious caving was sufficent to put off the majority of ICCC cavers with complaints of course-work deadlines and relatives' birthdays. This left a hardened core to sweep up to the NPC and dive down King Pot in sodden conditions for a brilliant 10.5 hour trip to the bottom of the last pitch. Truly astounding cave!
<center><a href="/caving/wiki.php?n=Trip.Yorkshire-2008-02-22">Trip Report?</a> | Alas no photos (thought it would be too tight!)</center>
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Massive JH-Titan exchange trip on the Saturday with 12 cavers in total. Late start of ~circa 3pm, but everyone out by a relatively early 11pm. Less motivation on the Sunday - people with cars had gone home, James KP + Jan did a little rigging practice and the rest walked up Mam Tor or fettled in the hut with uni work!
<center><a href="/caving/derbyshire/derbyshire-2008-02-08.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-02-08%20-%20derbyshire/">Photos</a></center>
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A long overdue return to the farm! Excitement fettling in Easegill on Saturday, smearing blood around a shaft and checking out the foam on the ceiling. Sunday saw a main party go to Aygill while an insane duo set off to King to swap a snickers bar and a maillon for a 20m rope and a broken Casio watch.</p>
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2008-01-25.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-01-25%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a></center>
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<strong>ICCC Proteus 2008.1</strong>
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A new paper newsletter in 2008? Are we mad? No - its Retro!<br><br>
Dive in for hyperlinks galore & something to finally explain to Aunt Edna exactly what it is you do at the weekend.<br>
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<i>"Damn inspiring stuff."</i><br>
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There will come a time during the next week when you will ask yourself:
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<i>"Just what have I done in these last few days before Christmas?"</i></p>
<p>The answer: Rat Hole <-> Stream (GG), County Pot <-> Lancaster Hole (EG), Lost Johns', Ireby Fell (ladders), Notts I (Anderson's route + Acrobat series?), Swinstow / Valley Ent
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/tours/2007%20-%20yorkshire%20winter/">Photos</a> |
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Last trip of the Autumn term was a stonker, horrifically wet weekend trip to Yorkshire with killer roads, a leaking roof in the NPC and flooded caves. But we endured and had a damn nice time. Boxhead, Rumbling, Lost Johns' & Rowten all successfully probed, an ULSA birthday party gatecrashed and vast quantities of cake consumed.
<center><a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2007-11-30.php">Trip Report</a> | <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2007-11-30%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a></center>
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The second driver, alas, fell ill and so we diverted from the glory of Yorkshire to the homely comforts of the Mendips, and broke into the Belfry. Deep frost during the night, was pretty scary on the roads with the moonlight bouncing off the white bearded fields! Due to the cold we investigated Easterwater Caverns on the Saturday, a cave only a 5 minute stumble from the enormous fire, and found it to be a nice mixture of crawls, clambers and climbs.<br>
Sunday found us with some Charterhouse keys thanks to the kind hut warden, and a splendid photogenic session down GB and a 'sporting' (to the point of drowning) trip down Longwood in furries.
<br><strong>Maybe there are some caves in the 'Dip other than Swildons...</strong>
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2007-11-23%20-%20mendips/">Photos</a> | <a href="/caving/mendips/mendip-2007-11-23.php">Trip Report</a></center>
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The Orpheus hut was as lovely as ever, Kenny being quite the welcoming hut warden. Fires were stoked, cheese-on-toast was prepared with the cattle-prod assisted stove and we were all tucked up against the wind and rain outside. Of course, eventually we would have to go out and go caving... Shed's car had spewed all of its oil into the ground overnight so we had to quickly replan trips and regroup in the minibus. Giants & Oxlow were succesfully probed, whereas Maskhill was called off due to a bit of a log jam in the entrance series! Saturday night saw an amazing Chilli with the secret ingredient of dark chocolate, and an evening in front of the fire including new research into indoor carbide displays. Sunday was less faffy, and saw trips down Oxlow, Maskhill & Eldon's Hole (which really was just a hole), and a pleasent return to London.
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2007-11-09%20-%20derbyshire/dirindex.html">Photos</a> | <a href="/caving/derbyshire/derbyshire-2007-11-09.php">Report</a></center>
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Massive minibus + two cars trip to Yorkshire, four different (rope) trips on both days, a delicious curry and an extra hours caving on Sunday thanks to British Summer Time. What more could you want?<br><br>
Trips: Lower Long Churn / Alum Pot, Aquamole (twice), Heron Pot, Bull Pot, County Pot, Jingling, Rowten. Whoah!<br>
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<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2007-10-26%20-%20yorkshire/">Photos</a> | <a href="/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2007-10-26.php">Biased Trip Report</a></center>
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While the more conscientious of us were at Hidden Earth, telling the world about our finds in Slovenia during the summer, a crack [pot] team of Jan, Colm & Le Rik set off to canyon the long-weekend away in Switzerland. Have a gander at the photos - its pretty damn impressive!
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Fantastic trip down South Wales, doing <a href="http://ogof.net/">Ogof Fynnon Ddu</a> and Cwm Dwr based at the enormous SWCC hut. Saturday saw long trips down to the Top Waterfall, and a loop via Edward's Shortcut to have a look at the climb down to Maypole Inlet and then back via sightseeing up Salubrius. Delicious pasta meal in the evening, followed by dubious games vs. Nottingham (my ribs, my poor ribs!) and a good long card session. Next day, rather stiff from the previous days antics, half the team made it down Cwm Dwr for a high speed explore, while the others went for a walk up over the hill...
<center><a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2007-10-12%20-%20south%20wales/">Photos</a> | <a href="/caving/wales/wales-2007-10-12.php">Trip Report</a></center>
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Absolutely brilliant expedition: pity it had to end after 4 weeks! The elusive connection to form the second-longest cave in Slovenia is still being sought, though we're down to 28m separation (with a survey error of ~40m) in an absolute maze of corridors and drops.<br>
Surveys will be drawn and some sort of report written in due time - after such a packed expedition, I think all of us could do with a holiday to relax...<br>
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We presented our findings at the Hidden Earth 2007 BCRA conference this September. Jana wrote a quick <a href="/caving/wales/bcra-2007-09-21.php">Report</a>. I intend to have our new surveys uploaded this coming weekend...
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Another year, another haul of fresh faced converts to the underground ways! With any luck, some of you out there reading this website will be here after reading our entry in the ICU clubs+socs guide.<br>
We've all gone off on expedition to <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=46.25+13.75&ll=46.249971,13.74999&spn=0.028252,0.086517&t=k&om=1">Tolminski Migovec</a>, where we're discovering caves by the kilometre, and deep frying mars bars by the gross.<br><br>
So, nobody's home: but the lights are still on, so have a good poke around our humble web presence, and see you at Freshers' Fayre!<br>
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<strong><a href="/caving/photo_archive/2004-11-05%20-%20yorkshire%20-%20groupshot.html">Caving:</a> more <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2005-06-10%20-%20yorkshire/jarvist-IMG_1516.html">exciting</a> than you can <a href="/caving/photo_archive/cuba/1999/evelio%26mjan-jaihba.html">possibly</a> <a href="/caving/photo_archive/Clewin_on_Concorde_2004_Photo_by_Jarvist_Frost-lowquality.html">imagine</a>, <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2005-newyear/2006-01-01-devilsbridge_abseil/jarvist_frost-film2-imm022.html">adrenalin</a> <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2005-newyear/2006-01-01-devilsbridge_abseil/jarvist_frost-film2-imm025.html">filled</a> but <a href="/caving/photo_archive/tours/2006%20-%20yorkshire%20winter/2006-yorkshire_winter-jarvist_frost-county_pot-IMG_0396.html">not macho</a>, an all-year round <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2005-newyear/2006-01-02-tolmin_to_kal/joanna_king-Jo%20Slov%2006%20071.html">outdoor sport</a> that gets you really fit and cheaply out of <a href="/caving/photo_archive/trips/2004-10-30%20-%20urban%20exploration%20-%20paddock%20CWR%20london%20-%20lyndon/sm_146_4658.html">London</a>, with a <a href="/caving/photo_archive/2005-02-25%20-%20mendips%20-%20groupshot.html">friendly group</a> of <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2005/Bivvi/Clewin_Griffth-People.html">laid back</a> but <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2006-Yossarian/005-Rescue/Letters-of-Thanks.html">extremely</a> <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2000/frame_18.html">competent</a> cavers, the closest you will come to <a href="/caving/photo_archive/tours/2007%20-%20sardinia/jarvist%20frost%20-%20su%20palu%20-%20pool%20chamber%20crystal%20bridge%20group%20shot.html">walking</a> on the <a href="/caving/photo_archive/slovenia/2005-enigma/Kal_Tolminski_Migovec.html">moon</a>.
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