Snow, flooded caves & a meeting with ICCC stalwart Dave 'Efficient' Wilson. A mini five person trip powered by the Clew Mobile.

Three old lags, capsule hotels & caving in the snow.

We're back, and Mallorca was absolutely brilliant! Lovely weather, great villa [minus the pond scum on the pool], fantastic caving, fresh oranges + lemons from the trees in our garden, a day of sailing and sunburning. Clouded over on the last day, but other than that - a strictly t-shirt + shorts affair.

Where? Mendips, Somerset
When? Sunday 13th March
What? Strap-on-the-nitro Day Trip
How many? With just day-sacks + no ropes, we should be able to takethe full minibus load... so 15-17
Experience Required? Eager Fresher to Old Hand; multiple trips at multiple levels...
Cost? 10-15 pounds [the more people come, the cheaper :)], plus pocket money for lunch + drink [from admittedly shaky memory; the extremely filling veggie pasta at the Hunters is 2.25]

Low cost, just a single day of your time + some fantastic sporting caving. From Fresher to Old Lag, you really do want to be on this trip! A few spaces left [managed to bag a 17 seater...], email address on the left to sign up!

Just back from a stonking stomp down Somerset; Swildons, Longwood and Goatchurch [failed to find key for Charterhouse] were all enjoyed by a motley crew of 15 ICCC'ers. All trips bar one exited before daylight, weather gloriously sunny but bitter with the occasional dusting of snow; tables were duly traversed, Veggie nosh greedily gobbled, bottles walked and a generally good time endured! Having gone away for the weekend and had such a consistently pleasant experience is most discombobulating, I fear that ICCC is softening! I may have to pour a bucket of snow-melt over my head and sit for a few hours in the fridge to convince myself otherwise...

While the rest of us were enjoying the veritable delights of France, Jan 'NoJob' Evetts and Tetley 'Just call me Sir' Hooper took a load of young boys up the MCG.

Just flown in from our action-packed long-weekend to Grenoble, France. Epic 10hr trip on the Friday in Sasenage; stretching the club FX3 lighting rigs to their very limit. Climbed 250m+ on a series of undulating pitches, stream way, storming passageway and a FANTASTIC tight-rope traverse over a deep pool of icy water. Saturday saw three serious trips go out, all involving long walks through the snow before even getting to the cave, and amazing ice-formations in the entrance series once inside - so pretty BUT SO COLD! Sunday was spent sleeping, packing, eating and faffing.

Obscenely warm, pleasant + enjoyable weekend - couldn't quite believe we were in Derbyshire!

We're back, and everyone survived unscathed more or less... See HERE for a gathering collection of trip reports and other such fluff...

An... interesting weekend!

Most of the group got involved with a large Cave Rescue operation - a caver had abseiled off the end of a rope [never forget to tie stop knots!] + had to be stretchered out after falling 5m onto his shoulder. Luckily, his injuries were relatively minor all things considered + is ok.

Tasty late-night curry [rescue continued till about midnight, with the other cavers stranded in their furies in a pub in Castleton], Sunday trips were short but taxing; Tom, Steph + Dan went for a walk up a big hill followed by a perversely pleasant cream tea.