Caving News and Information

As I wrote the last news I was on my way to SUICRO, the Speleological Union of Ireland annual congress, which as I expected was an excellent event. I was kept pretty busy with the shop (thanks for helping out Biff) but also managed to get to one talk on Shannon Cave and the remote [...]

This weekend the Starless River van and I are at SUICRO, the Irish caving symposium, where no doubt tales will be told and some Guinness drunk. I am hoping to get some diving in as well - the last few weeks have been frustrating on the diving front as whenever the vis is “poteen” I [...]

Tony has been too busy the last month to write anything, so it falls to me to update you all. Late August saw him taking a lightning trip to Austria to do some caving in Lamprechstofen (somewhat curtailed due to heavy rain and high water) but more importantly meeting up with the team for a [...]

Well, I’m home.
An interesting trip; pretty straightforward but with just a dash of incident to enliven the whole affair. The main lead for me, the terminal downstream sump which lies at -950m in Asopladeru la Texa, was pretty remote as a dive site and required a lot of help from many cavers to lug all [...]

The Western Massif of the Picos de Europa is well know to generations of British exploratory cavers. Pozu del Xitu was the first 1000m pothole explored to depth by a British team in the early ’80s, and many teams have dreamed of forging a connection between the high mountains down to the Culiembro resurgence in [...]

The new Starless River Mobile Shop has been out and about in the last few weeks. Visited so far:

The YSS at Helwith Bridge at the start of June
The Wessex on the following weekend
The SWCC at Penwyllt on June 27th and 28th
The Orpheus Cave Club on the 4th of July

At each of these clubs, members [...]