Cavers, *Tuesday 7pm Union Bar *First bar meet of the term, your chance to come and chat about the dark arts. Bring *£10 deposit* to guarantee your place on one of the freshers' trips. We'll stick a helmet on the table to advertise our presence. If the Union bar is rammed we might end up outside. * 17-19th October - South Wales - **£**20 all in (food, accommodation, transport, moral guidance)* Zooming off to the Swansea valley, staying in a comfy hut with a wood fire and big fat ovens just a 200 metre stumble through the national park to the cave entrance, where we can get stuck right in to some nice 8hr+ trips. Start your caving career with a big bang and get lost in the mighty Ogof Fynnon Ddu: http://ogof.net *Wednesday Noon-ish - Tree Train - **£FREE* Come outside and practice your rope techniques on the trees of princes gardens: climb up a piece of nylon the size of your finger then abseil down, pass deviations and rebelays, swing manically on the curious 'electron' ladders... Good fun, swinging from a tree. Meet Noon-ish at stores, or come direct to Princes Gardens' and look for the ropes.* *Stores is here:* http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/stores.php * Princes gardens is that big patch of grass and trees south of Ethos and north of Southside halls, east of exhibition road. * Recent Trips by ICCC* 46 Hours Camping Underground in Daren Cilau 10-12th Oct 2008 <http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-10%20-%20daren%20camp/jarvist%20frost%20-%20hrc%20from%20flower%20garden%20crop.html> <http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-10%20-%20daren%20camp/jarvist%20frost%20-%20honeymoon%20suite%20with%20the%20cockeral%20in%20place.html>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... A few photos...<http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-10%20-%20daren%20camp/> PhD Freshers OFD/WSG Trip 2008 3-5th Oct 2008 <http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-03%20-%20wales/jarvist%20frost%20-%20cascade_slow_exposure.html> <http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-03%20-%20wales/justin%20dane%20-%20nikon%20d40%20-%20webres_DSC_2003.html>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 (OFD <http://ogof.net/>) 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. Photos!<http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/caving/photo_archive/trips/2008-10-03%20-%20wales/> Cave safe kids, Jarv *Oct 31st - 2nd Nov* - Mendip, BEC hut<http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/caving/photo_archive/trips/2007-11-23%20-%20mendips/dont%20fear%20the%20belfry.html>/ Swildons, GB<http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/caving/photo_archive/trips/2007-11-23%20-%20mendips/gb%20facing%20the%20waterfall%20climb.html> *Nov 7-9th* - Yorkshire, NPC *Nov 21-23rd* - CHECC, Derbyshire *Dec 5-7th* - Yorkshire, BPF -- Imperial College Caving Club http://union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving ic.caving [AT] gmail.com