Jan's report on Hidden Earth 2004.

The expedition has returned from the fleshpots of Tolmin. The cave and bivvy are derigged for another year. About 1.5 km of new cave this year - mostly below -700m, damned impressive in my book. Loads more to do next year though....

Weekend in the Vercors, had to go canyoning to escape from the 34° heat.

Vie Ferrate are the biz! We had an excellent weekend in the Dolomiti, managed to pack everything in:

• Easy warm-up jolly in perfect sunshine.
• More hard-core trip on Brigata Tridentina, an excellent, steep VF
• Thunder + Lightning - no lark when you're stuck to a lightning conductor!
• Pizza + Pivo aplenty
• All topped off by nearly missing the flight back to London!

One of the best Yorkshire weekends ever. Pull-throughs, pirates and canyons.

Pippikin to Wretched Rabbit Attempt at the ultimate Pip-Top trip, bailed at WR. Not everyone enjoyed the trip as much as they should have......

Knocked Meregill off over the weekend. Quite tiring, though a worthwhile trip.

Keeping up a tradition of sampling caving worldwide, a team of crack(pot) IC 3 cavers ventured into the beer-laden lands of Belgium. This is their story ...

Weekend Trip 30th January to 1st February 2004

Excellent Fireworks weekend with some classic Dales potholes done.