Present: Glen, Botch, Olly, Brendan, Ben, Max Long crawly climby entrance series, got soaked waiting for Glen and Brendan to get through a squeeze. Tested rift, went into maze Got through boulder choke, explored enormous tunnel. Botch and Olly accompanied me into a tiny little rift that led onto a smallish chamber – expeditionary according to Botch, who viciously threw dirt in my eyes before I could leave properly. Very sketchy climb back up, managed while half blind. Tried to come out of the tunnel, the others had bricked it up – typical civil engineers (read: bastards). I was confused me at first and I insisted they help me. They refused. Fuck ‘em. I ended up bracing my head on the walls to try and maneuver myself into the right orientation before starting deconstruction work. Removed the wall, what bastards. Left, bringing up the rear with Glen. I will admit, this is to test the emails – yes I know! Contrary to popular belief I am actually attempting to fix them… at least I am now that I have exams breathing down my neck and I don’t want to revise.

This week I wanted to take a break from the fan fiction I have been writting, my apolagies! Instead, I wanted to write something out of the ordinary that can hopefully help people in SUSS. From my knowledge, this is not discussed within the group much (and why would it? it’s very penis orientated). You guys know i’m not a hard-core feminist, but I think it would be cool if this was talked about more often within the caving community. This post isn’t restircted to anyone and is not ‘for’ anyone. I’d just like to raise awareness and give advice. I’ve been caving for around 2 years now, and I also bleed/Mestruate. So I wanted to help out SUSS members who bleed too. I have compiled a few tips and tricks below that might help any of you out. Whilst I hope you enjoy, I want to stress that I have no medical training, and heck, Rostam would probably do better at writing this up than me. (Context: he is medically trained, but I am not) So whilst, yes I have experience with caving and bleeding, take this with a pinch of salt. Who knows, maybe Rostam will end up […]

♦08/12/2018 Members Present: Adelaide de Diesbach, Glen Sankey, Liam Overett, Wenlong She A cavern hidden in the beautiful countryside. Our trip began with warm sunlight —something that will always encourage you get out of there when you are struggling in a muddy cavern. Red and green are the dominant colors of this land, while black is the dominant color of underground. After a long walking tour along the river, we finally found the entrance of the Wretched Rabbit. Just like many other caverns, we squeezed into this hole, squeezed into an unknown new world. The beginning was easy — descending is always easy. However, when Adelaide asked me about my feeling of this cavern, I didn’t dare to speak out my true feeling. Last time I did that in the giant hole, some terrible things happened immediately. You can say that it is one kind of superstition. Besides that, there were two other clubs caving there. That’s why Liam called it a social caving. Talking and laughing fulfilled this dark world with warm air, while Glen fulfilled another club’s backup back bag with stones. It is not a quiet cavern, waterfalls and streams couldn’t stop sing. When you are trying to climb […]