Sheffield University Speleological Society (SUSS)

Suss is proud to announce that the 2010 Suss Crete Expedition will be sponsored by Sheffield Uni’s Alumni Foundation.

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By Ellie

Mission: to find the pretties in Aggy

On a lovely sunny morning me, Sema, Mike, Tom1, Pointy Tom and Chris went to Agen Allwedd. We crawled through the entrance and signed the log book. At the first boulder choke:

“have you got the laminated survey?” “no, I thought Mike had it” “no, I haven’t got it either, I thought Ellie had it”

Very well prepared we were. But luckily Mike had taken a picture of the survey on his camera so we had to use that. We managed to get through and eventually into the main streamway were we took some photos and then decided to go back and explore the mud flats.

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As I haven’t written in a whdo a mega summary of what I have been up to…with a few of the key trips since February.

Adam in Croesor Rhosydd

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By Ellie

Me, Ali, Mike, Tim and James went down JH today and it was awesome. James and Mike went to their dig while ali me and tim went down leviathan and then into Speedwell to look at the Miner’s graffiti. After pottering around for a bit we ate sweets and headed back out which was a bit knackering.

All in all a very good trip me thinks : )

On friday night a few people who are going to CRETE (why aren’t you ALL coming) on the summer expedition went to the tower in Rotherham for some rescue training. Lots got done and theres still lots more to learn (after exams which are almost killing everyone) Not quite Crete but with the heat the past few days it may have well been.
I enjoyed rescuing Tom and cutting the rope he was on WITH SOME STRING (surprisingly easy to do) leaving him on one strand of the core of the rope… After a gentle decent an accidental knee in the balls concluded the ’successful’ ‘rescue’.
We then both wracked our brains to remember how to do a Z -rig which after some deliberation managed to lift a Sam sized bag.
Everyone else did much of the same and all in all a useful evening in the sun was had learning essential stuff.

Chris

Words: Andy C                               Photos: Imo

After a long train journey from Delhi, Bridget Hall and I arrived in the Indian city of Shillong, in order to meet with the other members of the 2010 Meghalayan expedition. Two days were spent amassing gear, supplies and musical instruments for the camp in the Jaintia hills. This was followed by an 4 hour jeep journey which finally clocked in at 9 hours, after problems with suspension failure on one of the jeeps.

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Every year at the annual dinner, awards are given for the silly antics that club members have got up to…Me and Mike racked our brains, and here is a round-up of what was given… [Read more →]

A Chairperson’s perspective by Tom1

SUSS Annual Dinner 2010

Another year gone another rare opportunity to see cavers all poshed up. or at least some of them. This years annual dinner went off without a hitch, or a rescue. We can all thank the no longer secretary Rosie for a truly wonderful weekend. With the majority of the student SUSS plus a few others going up on the friday night this gave us the opportunity to get some good caving in on the saturday with several trips going to some exciting places. A wet swim and wander down White scar for some or a tough but rewarding Large-Rift through trip for others (didn’t even need directions to find the entrance, thankfully. my fault.). By the evening we were all nice and hungry and eventually got up the motivation to get properly dressed and head off to the Masons Arms for the meal…

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By Twebber

There’s been a reasonable period of nice weather so the water flow in the Dales should not have been too high. It was also the CDG annual dinner this weekend so this was an ideal opportunity to sneak up north and do some diving while all the nothern divers were nursing a Welsh hangover.
Just down from Chapel-le-dale on the Ingleton Road is a layby with some huge beams of wood in it. Parking here and walking down through the feild and the dry river soon finds a hole in the bed of the river on the left hand side. Descending a steep bank of cobbles leads to the water level.
Enter the water and descending about 5m leads to a roomy flooded passage that explains why the river bed above is dry. This is the main Chapel-le-dale river draining the upper part of the valley. Downstream from here its only a little further to the resurgence at God’s Bridge (after this the river is wet.
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By Tom1

This weekend a selection of SUSSites descended on the TSG for fun and games. On the saturday me, Ginger Steve, Sema and fresher Sam went for a play down P8 (after realising I’d forgotten the wellies for Sam)…

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