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| 0 | 9-11 Oct. |
South Wales (DYO & Daren Cilau) Intended for Experienced Cavers |
£65 | SWCC | |
| 1 | 16-18 Oct. | Derbyshire | £65 | TSG | Fiona Zhang |
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30 Oct. - 1 Nov. | South Wales | £65 | SWCC | Rocky Yu |
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13-15 Nov. | Mendips | £65 | BEC | Rosa Clements |
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27-29 Nov. | Yorkshire Prior SRT Training recommended |
£65 | CPC | Fiona Zhang |
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Other meets may be organised - please check at Social meetings or via the OUCC mailing lists.
Details of the trips will be advertised closer in time. They will mostly be advertised on the
"oucc-all" mailing list.
So if you
want to stay up to date, please sign up following the instructions on the
website:
http://www.oucc.org.uk/current/mailists.htm
PLEASE help and volunteer to organise a weekend. If no-one organises the
weekends they won't happen.
There is a detailed crib sheet on the website telling you exactly how to
organi#wk1se a weekend. Take a
Look!
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How to Sign up for a Caving Trip |
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| Trips must be paid for in advance. Payment is by an online system. https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-catalogue/oxford-university-cave-club/ou-cave-club-trips Cost covers: loan of equipment, transport, accommodation, food on site; but not food in transit or what you spend in the pub! See here for more information. If you haven't been caving with us before but want to give it a go, membership and insurance for your first term with OUCC is free! |
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Your first Caving Trip? |
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1st week 16th-18th Oct – Peak district – TSG
This weekend trip will be on Friday 16th to Sunday 18th Oct 2026. We will be
staying in the TSG cottage in Castleton, Peak district.
Derbyshire offers
some great caving, and the cottage is close to the fantastic Peak Cavern, which
offers great beginner -friendly caving trips.
There are also other caving
systems like Giants hole and P8, not very far from Castleton and offers
beginner-level routes.
We plan to leave on Friday evening at around 19:00 and
return on Sunday evening.
Before departure, you can choose and pack caving
gear as well as sleeping bags from our
caving hut if you do not
have your own.
More details regarding the trip will be distributed after you
sign up.
Due to the limitation of vehicles, we can only take 14 people for
this trip, so please sign up early if you’d like to come.
Organiser:
Fiona Zhang
sifei.zhang@physics.ox.ac.uk
Sign-up:
https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-catalogue/oxford-university-cave-club/ou-cave-club-trips/oucc-trip-michaelmas-term-26-wk-1-derbyshire
3rd week 30th Oct-1st Nov – South Wales – South
Wales Caving Club
This weekend trip will be on Friday 30th Oct to
Sunday 1st Nov 2026, the Halloween weekend!.
We will be staying in the SWCC
hut at Penwyllt, close to the OFD cave system.
OFD offers a range of trips
to suit all abilities - and some super streamways!
Trips to this area are a
favourite with OUCC.
Organiser: Rocky Yu
yanzuo.yu@merton.ox.ac.uk
Sign-up:
https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-catalogue/oxford-university-cave-club/ou-cave-club-trips/oucc-trip-michaelmas-term-26-wk-3-swales
5th week 13th-15th Nov – Mendips— Bristol
Exploration Club
This weekend trip will be on Friday 13th Nov to
Sunday 15th Nov 2026.
This is a trip to the Mendip caves, with caves
offering challenging outings and also ones suitable for novice trips.
We
will be staying in the Bristol Exploration Club (BEC) hut which is close to some
of the larger caves (Swildon's Hole, Eastwater Cavern), and to the Hunter's Inn
which is a magnet for many cavers.
If you've done some SRT traiing by then,
you might be able to descend Hunter's Hole - based at the back of the Inn.
Organiser: Rosa Clements
rosa.clements@somerville.oxon.net
Sign-Up:
https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-catalogue/oxford-university-cave-club/ou-cave-club-trips/oucc-trip-michaelmas-term-26-wk-5-mendips
7th week 27th-29th Nov –
Yorkshire – Craven Pothole club
As the last trip in MT, we are going
to Yorkshire—an area that offers some remarkable caves - many of them are deep
and require some training of SRT techniques
(SRT
training will be held on the weekend of 2nd and 4th week, watch out for our
emails!) .
There are many caves to choose from, and we will be able to offer
trips suitable for all levels of experience, e.g. Notts II, Bull Pot of the
Witches.
Organiser: Fiona Zhang
sifei.zhang@physics.ox.ac.uk
Sign-up: coming soon! Watch out for email updates!
BEC:
Bristol
Exploration Club; BPC:
Bradford Pothole Club; BPF:
Bull
Pot Farm;
CPC:
Craven Pothole Club;
Godre Pentre
Croydon Caving Club; LCCC:
Lancashire Caving &
Climbing Club; MCG:
Mendip Caving Group;
NPC:
Northern Pennine Club;
Orpheus:
Orpheus Caving
Club;
SMCC:
Shepton Mallet Caving Club;
SDB: South Dartmoor
Bunkhouse;
SWCC: South Wales Caving
Club; TSG:
Technical Speleo
Group;
UBSS:
University of Bristol Speleological Society; WCC:
Wessex Caving Club;
Whitewalls: Chelsea
Speleological Society; WSG: Westminster Speleo
Group;
Yorkshire Dales Guides:
(Hornby Laithe Bunkbarn); YSS: Yorkshire
Subterranean Society.