Note: Some MSS trips have limited numbers where priority is given to their members, please contact the trip leader to register your interest.

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5th-7th July 2025- Timor Caves – Joint trip with Sydney Speleological Society
Photo-tagging and documentation trip. Some easy caving on the side. Staying at the old hut $10 per person per night plus $3 trip fee. Most arriving late Friday night. Contact: Jodie Rutledge jodie@rutco.com.au

12th July 2025 (Saturday)- Gloucester Caves Dive Trip
Survey of the new dive extension in GL1 extension. Involves a 7m roof sniff. Meet in Gloucester at 8:30am. Contact Tam Durney for details: Tambalyn.durney@gmail.com

14th July 2025- Tuglow Caves (limited to 8 participants)
Vertical caving, must have good fitness and be SRT proficient. 70m of decent, and multiple rebelays. Contact: Andrew Baker  Andrew.Baker@environment.nsw.gov.au

2nd-3rd August 2025- Timor Caves – Joint trip with Metropolitan Speleological Society
Caving beginners trip, no vertical gear required. Staying at the hut for a small cost of $10 pppn plus trip fee. Contact: roderick__smith@hotmail.com

30th-31st August 2025- Gloucester Caves Dive Trip
Survey of the new dive extension in GL1 extension. Involves a 7m roof sniff. Contact Tam Durney for details: Tambalyn.durney@gmail.com

18th-19th October 2025- Gloucester Caves Dive Trip
Short notice (sorry)- but conditions were just right to spring this one onto the club calendar. Plan is to survey and continue pushing the new dive extension. Contact Tam for details: Tambalyn.durney@gmail.com

15th-16th November 2025- Glenrock Caves
You can expect small vertical caves mostly, but lots of opportunity to find new caves and we do find the occasional big one! Basic bush camping, 1.5hrs north of Aberdeen. Contact: Brian Reeves: 0402 099329 or kanga941@gmail.com and for the trip book Daniel Burt <daniel@danielburtphotos.com>

22nd November 2025- Training Day- Glenrock recreation area
Meet: 9am at the start of the Yuelarbah walking track (car park)
What are we doing: Abseiling and ladder skills for the kids and beginners. More technical skills training can be arranged if members wish.
What to bring: lunch, water, sunscreen, hat, helmet and any vertical gear you might have. If you don’t have any gear, just let Brian or Daniel know as the club does have some gear to lend out.
Contact: Brian Reeves: 0402 099329 or kanga941@gmail.com or Cathi Humphrey-Hood <cathi@emeraldimages.com.au> and for the trip book Daniel Burt <daniel@danielburtphotos.com

29th November (Saturday)- Pilchers Mountain (near Paterson) TRIP CANCELLED
The main focus of the trip is to assist Helen Smith investigate the species of spiders which are found within the caves.
Meeting: prior to 8am at Paterson and set off in convoy to the property at 8am sharp.
Once at the property there is about a 2km walk up a reasonably steep hill to the start of the gorge and rainforest. The fault caves are in sandstone and conglomerate rock so NO stalactites, stalagmites etc as one would expect with limestone caves.
There are some vertical caves so if you want to do these, you would need to bring all your own gear including ropes.
Participants will need lunch, water, sunburn cream and normal caving gear.

The caves that we will be doing, generally do not require gear other than a hand line. We can split into groups to do different caves. I am Ok with a small group heading off to undertake a vertical cave, eg. Rebel cave is a vertical cave that would take pretty well all day. I would want to be heading back down the mountain at the very latest by 5pm.

Contact: Garry K. Smith gksmith29@icloud.com
Number limit restricted to 16 participants.

30th December 2025- 1st January 2026- Timor Caves Camping Trip
Camping on private property. Basic bush camping with no facilities. Walking and exploration of the NW corner of the reserve through to Crawney Road past Hill Cave. Or escaping the heat and heading underground. Contact: Murray Dalton murray.dalton1@gmail.com

9th-11th January 2026- Gloucester Caves Dive Trip
Short notice trip again (sorry)- but conditions are just right! Plan is to survey and continue pushing the new dive extension. Contact Tam for details: Tambalyn.durney@gmail.com

? (TBA) March 2026- Glenrock Caves
You can expect small vertical caves mostly, but lots of opportunity to find new caves and we do find the occasional big one! Basic bush camping, 1.5hrs north of Aberdeen. Contact: Brian Reeves: 0402 099329 or kanga941@gmail.com and for the trip book Daniel Burt <daniel@danielburtphotos.com>

19th April- 2nd May 2026- Mt Etna, Queensland Multi-club Trip
We are planning a multi-club trip to Mt Etna in April 2026 to re-survey Johannsens Cave (4J-1). This is an extremely complex cave with over 1km of passage and it has multiple levels and at least 27 entrance holes which need to be tied into the survey. And still some possible leads! Ideally we would like to have two survey teams and a surface team. There might be the option to visit a couple of other caves that are usually closed for bat breeding at other times of the year, but the primary purpose of the trip is surveying.

Dates are: arrive Rockhampton/Yeppoon Sunday 19th April 2026 – depart Sat 2nd May 2026.

Please let me know if you:
a) can definitely come
b) should be able to come pending leave, inventive excuses to significant others etc or
c) are interested at this stage, and will try to get there if you can.

Once I have an idea of numbers I will try to arrange an airbnb or two in Yeppoon (with the sea-breeze and away from the Rockhampton mosquitoes), although you are quite welcome to arrange something for yourself if you want to stay somewhere else. Contact: Cathi Humphrey-Hood Cathi@fluffycaver.com (note new email address!)

19th-21st June 2026- Timor Caves – Joint trip with Sydney Speleological Society- TBC
Photo-tagging and documentation trip. Some easy caving on the side. Trip details still to be confirmed. Might be camping or might be staying at the hut $10 per person per night plus $3 trip fee. Most arriving late Friday night. Contact: Jodie Rutledge jodie@rutco.com.au

?July/August/September 2026- Bungonia vertical Training weekend
Tentatively planned for Q3 of 2026. Phase 2 level- participants need to already have the basic skills and have an efficient setup. Contact: Peter Brady/Andrew Baker  Andrew.Baker@environment.nsw.gov.au

?October/November 2026- Wyanbene/Big Hole vertical Training weekend
Tentatively planned for Q4 of 2026. Phase 3 level- participants must be proficient at SRT and have attended the Bungonia training day first. Contact: Peter Brady/Andrew Baker  Andrew.Baker@environment.nsw.gov.au