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December 2008

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Weekend Photos (Snow!) | Christmas Tour Organisation
by Jarvist Frost 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Dear Cavers, Amazing set of trips to the Dales this weekend just gone. Heavy snow earlier in the week was still there, we sledged down from the caves on our slippery Meander oversuits. Getting changed outside actually felt quite warm (totally still), except for the way our harnesses froze stiff! Here's some photos: <http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-12-05%20-%20y…> http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-12-05%20-%20y… ---- * Christmas Tour (**20-24th/28th December)* We have a minibus for Saturday afternoon (to give everyone a chance to recover from the end of year parties), and will then zoom up to the Dales to the NPC (central heating, large kitchen, 2 showers, drying room, new bunks upstairs etc.). >From here we'll have the opportunity of doing the longer, better, harder, caving trips available in some of the most picture-esque region of the country. On the 24th we'll drop off any students who want to go home at a suitable train station (Clapham, Lancaster, Skipton are good ones), and then move ourselves to BPF in the middle of the massive Easegill system. Conversely, if anyone would prefer to come up to Yorks on the 26th/27th you can get a good long weekend of caving in and then come back to London in the bus. Christmas day will see a big roast dinner at the Farm, but only after an Epic traverse trip to build a suitable appetite. For the 25th-28th we'll concentrate on Easegill & Leck fell (the Western most caves in the Dales) before revving the minibus back down the M6 to regain London in time for a midnight snack on the Sunday. Cost should be as Low as possible, we have a small amount of travel subsidy and shouldn't burn too much fuel once we're up North. And if you've never spent a Christmas away from the family, I'd definitely recommend it just as an experience & to escape that long dark Christmas TV tea-time of the soul with some good honest caving. Read about prior year's excitements & add your own trips to the 'hit list' on the website: http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2008-winter-tour.p… Make your interest know or find your seat taken by an enormous tacklesac full of rope - you will not regret it, its a real 'caving event of the year' kind of thing! Jarv

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Caving: Tuesday: Votla Gora 2008 talk with the Explo Soc | Last Trip of Term: 5-7th Dec (This Weekend) | Winter Tour (20th Dec -->)
by Jarvist Frost 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Dear Cavers & cavers-to-be, *Tuesday* (2nd Dec) *6:30pm*: *Votla Gora 2008* talk with the Explo Soc by James Kirkpatrick Room: *Civil Engineering Building (Skempton) Room 207* James is a very entertaining speaker, and will spend some time introducing the audience to the nature of alpine exploration caving, and then going into the specifics of Imperial College Caving Club's summer 2008 Expedition to the Julian Alps in Western Slovenia. Come for some stunning photos, an introduction (As its Exploration Soc: £1 for non-members, free for Exploration members, £2 to join the club for a free lecture ) * Last Trip of Term: 5-7th Dec (This Weekend): * Just a couple of spaces left, all those people who couldn't fit on the prior trips or who couldn't make the dates, this is your last chance for a weekend trip till 2009... Destination: *Bullpot Farm*, and the *70km+ Easegill system*! This is our first trip to Bullpot and is a remarkably well situated hut, being a few hundred meters across the fell from Lancaster & Cow Pot. The locals are always entertaining, and there's a couple of other university clubs up to fight for space with in the kitchen & fiddle with in the squeeze machines... *Winter Tour: (20th Dec--> 28th ish) *Wahey! Well, we've got a lovely little Tour coming up which gives you a chance to really get in the skills and the long Yorkshire trips. We'll be driving up to Yorks ideally on the afternoon of Saturday 20th Dec, staying at the NPC and doing 4 days of hard action in the Three Peaks region, dropping off anyone who needs to go home for Crimbo at a suitable train station (Clapham / Skipton / Settle / etc.), then swapping over to Bullpot farm for festive fun, a great big fat roast dinner & Christmas Caving. Van is slated to return to London on Sunday 28th. And if you need a rescue on the 25th... Well, at least Yorkshiremen appreciate the escape from their families during the long dark Christmas tea time of the soul: http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/yorkshire/yorkshire-2006-winter-tour.p… Come on Tues / the weekend / next Tues to pay your deposit & voice an interest - we've only booked a 9 seater minibus so we have space for all the Christmas crackers, otherwise you'll have to slum it on the train! Jarv

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