Sheffield University Speleological Society (SUSS)

By Ellie and Rosie (sat at this very minute in the belfry with a nice fire going)
So we found out that the Belfry has interweb – so thought we would update you with the amazing trip that we did today!
We finally all arrived in Summmurset by 11am today (rosie having got severely delayed by a [...]

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By Imo

In January, myself, Madphil (BEC), Fleur Loveridge(OUCC) and Pete Talling(UBSS) went on a recce to Myanmar (Burma) to look for caves. The whole opportunity came about as a result of Joerg Dryebolt’s lecture at Hidden Earth.  I was inspired, and he helped to put me in touch with the ‘right people in Myanmar.

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By Sema
On a fine wednesday afternoon me and Hannah planned to go caving in Nettle. i have heard good things about this cave from Tom 1 so i was very excited to go. Hannah’s got her shinny new van that big and beautiful but unfortantly nameless for the time being. we will find a name [...]

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By Lorrie
After the arrival of Andy and Sally, the adventure began for James Rhodes, Tom1, Alisa and me. First major challenge was getting round the confusion of having to change in a a bird dropping palace (a barn). Apparently getting naked by the side of the road was not to be done down south. Once [...]

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By Imo
I’ve never really been to Bagshawe  before, due to the £4 entrance fee, which put me off in the past.
The access fee is now a reasonable £2, and so I tried Bagshawe for the first time on Sunday with Pippa, which was my first trip there, ever. On Sunday, we managed to navigate  through [...]

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By Ellie
Yesterday me, Dave, Mike, Lorrie and Liz went on an adventure to water icicle. After parking up where Mike thought the cave was (by some trees on the right), and getting changed we all headed up the lane for a bit and into a field. All of a sudden in the beam of our [...]

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By Alisa
On the weekend of 5/6/7 March me, Rob2, H, Peachey, Rostam + 5 non-SUSSians went to Porthmadogg in North Wales to do some climbing in the sunshine. That’s right folks, we do more than just caving!
On the way there, Rob2 managed to make me throw up due to some impressive driving on crazy [...]

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Journey into the Mines of  Knotlow-Hillocks (not moria)
by Tom1

Having spent many a day in training and contemplation since their last adventure our two brave young boys decided they were ready to take the next step on their journey towards mastery of all things caving. this time their challenge lay down the mines of Knotlow the [...]

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By Ellie
From the one and only story I have been told about this cave I should have been mildly daunted but this was not the case, and when I got there, Gaping Gill proved to be a very fun cave indeed.
We all set off some time in the morning, got changed by the cars [...]

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By Mike
SUSS again ventured to the depths of Gaping Gill in the yorkshire dales, staying at the NPC hut. accompanied by a few MUSC members.
we all made the long walk up the hill to gaping gill and had a few entrances booked, stream, flood, bar, diheadral and dissapointment. people went down all over and made [...]

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