CUCC Meets List 1998-1999

CUCC and ExCS members welcome on any of these meets. To book a place including transport from Cambridge, just turn up at the pub meet on a Tuesday 10 days before the weekend. You can just turn up in the caving area (if you have your own accommodation), but it would help things to run smoothly if you let the meet leader know in advance.

The trips listed here are those for which we have permits. Other trips (not needing permits) will take place and those listed will not happen if the weather is unsuitable.

3rd Nov: And every Tuesday

Pub meet from 9.15 pm in The Castle on Castle Hill (meet upstairs - this is not immediately obvious, but it is there, so keep looking :-)
[ Note that this is a change from the Panton Arms for a trial period ]

14th Oct: Squash

7.30pm, Pembroke, Old Lodge Cellars

15th Oct: And every Thursday during term at 12 noon prompt

Club lunch (mountains of food for only £1.20), in Andrew Ketley's room - B18, Bishop Bateman Court, New Park Street. If you don't know how to find this see below.

17th Oct: Introduction to caving techniques

Meet outside Senate House 2.30 pm (with transport, ie. a bike). This practical introduction will take place at the disused railway bridge on Long Road.

Sun 18th Oct: Derbyshire novice meet I

P8, Derbyshire. Meet Senate House 8.45 am (or Tackle Store, or Churchill College)

24th/25th Oct: Yorks I

Ingleton Caravans. Saturday: Wretched Rabbit in Easegill; Sunday: County Pot, Kingsdale Master Cave

7/8th Nov: Mendip ILeave Cambridge after lunch Saturday

MNRC Hut. Possibly a Saturday evening trip, probably Swildons Hole on Sunday.

21/22nd Nov: Yorks II

Ingleton Caravans (Morphet 31 & 16). Saturday: Marble Pot? Marble Sink? (do we mean Marble Steps?), Lancaster Hole; Sunday: Rift Pot, Pippikin, Aygill Caverns.

5th/6th Dec: Yorks 2½

Chez Clive - a last-minute extra meet.

18th-21st Dec: Yorks 2¾

Ingleton Caravans (31 & 33). Saturday: Bar-Flood exchange, Sunday: Penyghent Pot and Pool Sink, Monday: Alum Pot (via Long Churn).

New Year (from around Dec. 28th)

Bull Pot Farm (sharing with Oxford U.C.C.) Lots of quality caving on this meet, with probably a short wet trip on New Year's Day :-) Penyghent Pot is traditional on New Year's Eve, if the weather allows, but since this was done on the pre-Christmas trip with a minor mishap, it probably won't be popular as a repeat venue ;-(

January 23rd/24th: Mendip II

Leave Cambridge after lunch Saturday, staying at Wessex Hut. St. Cuthbert's Swallet should be on for Sunday.

February 5th/6th/7th: Yorks III

Full weekend, staying at Greenclose, near Clapham. Various permits pending, or trips into open-access caves like Bull Pot Kingsdale, Magnetometer, ....

February 21st: Peak District

one day meet, most likely venue is Giants Hole.

March 5th

C.U.C.C. Annual Dinner of club's 50th year. Venue is yet to be confirmed, as a high turnout is expected !

March <something>th (to be confirmed): South Wales

Trips to include Ogof Draenen

April 25th: CUCC is 50 years old !!

there will be events in Lent Term and the summer - not yet clear whether there will be some celebration "on the day".

Not yet confirmed meets:

No details confirmed after Easter - suggestions/requests to Andrew Ketley. Anything on this list is an extrapolation from the 1997/8 meets schedule:

May: Yorks IV

camping

May: SWales II

venue to be booked

June: Yorks VII, Pre-Tripox meet

camping

June: Mendip III

venue to be booked

June 25th-27th

C.U.C.C. intending expedition members are invited to join in the N.P.C. Gaping Gill meet this weekend. Hopefully, NPC will have Main Shaft and or Jib Tunnel rigged all weekend (starting Friday, both ladder and SRT, and protected by a dam), and CUCC will rig in other entrances within Gaping Gill (for exchange trips) or nearby. Contact: 'Andy-NPC' on site 'pennine.demon.co.uk' (Andy Waddington).

June/July: Alternative Dinner and Post-Tripos meet

(usually Yorkshire)

Summer - c 5 weeks

Austria Expedition, dates (to include August 11th), leader Andrew Ketley, Trinity Hall - mail: 'ajk23' on site 'hermes.cam.ac.uk'
see Expo pages for history and objectives of CUCC's annual expedition

Finding the Thursday lunches:

Andrew Ketley's guide to finding his room: B18, Bishop Bateman Court.
BBC, as it is known to the denizens of its warren-like passages, is located on the corner of Thomson's Lane and New Park Street (from Bridge St., take the only side road between Magdelene Bridge and the Incredible Car-Crunching Bollards). At the crossroads, a close inspection of the hairdresser's should reveal a stairway ascending along one side of its roof, leading to an improbably located front door. Climb this, and select an appropriate button from the panel to the right of the door. Once through the front door, enter the stairwell through the door opposite and ascend one floor. On leaving the stairwell, bear left, and do not be deterred by any kitchens you may encounter; the lifeforms that inhabit them are usually harmless.