Below are details of trips that RUCC are running, along with an outline of what you need to bring.
Autumn Term Caving Trips 2011
- Sat 8th October: Mendips (Day Trip) – £5. More Info »
- 14th – 16th October: South Wales (Weekend Trip) – £35. More Info »
- 21st – 23rd October: South Wales (Weekend Trip) – £35. More Info »
- 4th – 6th November: Mendips – with Fireworks! (Weekend Trip) – £35. More Info »
- 25th – 27th November: CHECC – in Yorkshire (Weekend Trip) – £40. More Info »
- 9th – 11th December: Mystery Trip? More Info »
About Our Trips
If you want to go on any of the trips, please let our secretary or president know. We may charge a deposit or ask you to make a full upfront payment to confirm your place prior to our trips, as they can be very popular.
For day trips, we usually leave Reading in a minibus at approximately 9:30am and return in the evening at about 9pm. The day trip fee covers all transport, equipment, and any cave entrance fees.
For weekend trips, we usually leave Reading in a minibus at approximately 6:30pm on a Friday evening and return late on a Sunday, so it’s a pretty intensive weekend, but great fun. The weekend trip fee includes accommodation, travel, equipment, breakfast and Saturday dinner.
Trips will normally start at the Athletics Pavilion car park (near the university sports centre) – look for Building 43 on this Map [PDF file].
If you want to join us or have some questions, then please come to the College Arms (see this Map) from 9pm any Monday night and sign up. To accompany us you need to have Club membership (£15 for students and £20 for non students) and Sports Federation insurance (prices from £14 per year).
What to Bring
For these trips please bring:
- Old warm clothes (and dark underwear so the girls tell us)
- A Mars Bar (or equivalent)
- A sleeping bag (to sleep in). Or perhaps wear as a sarong if things get really bad.
- A towel (no comment)
- Some money (for beers of course, and to pay for the trip – if you haven’t already!)
- A torch! (vital for finding your way back from the pub – honest.)
- Old trainers (as the area is likely to be muddy, although you will wear wellies for the cave itself)
- Caving gear if you have any (provided if not), particularly wellies, oversuit, furry
- If you have them – thermals, warm hat and gloves, and washing up gloves (to keep your hands dry in the cave)
- A stupid hat. Important to blend in….
- Last but not least a sense of adventure, humour and a laissez faire attitude to the concept of personal hygiene!
We hope to see you there!
Caving Expeditions
Every year some of our more enthusiastic members go on caving expeditions further afield… In recent years, we’ve joined the Dachstein Caving Expedition in Austria each summer, and explored some of the deepest, most exciting, and least visited caves in the world. If you’d be interested in going on one of these expeditions or would like to know more, please get in touch with our committee, and we can provide you with all the details.
In previous years our club has travelled even further afield – travelling as far as Spain, Romania, Slovenia and China to see some truly spectacular caves! To read more about some of these expeditions, please see our old site…
