The club publishes a regular professionally printed newsletter containing a round up of members’ caving trip reports, news, reviews, photos and more. This is currently being produced quarterly and is sent to club members as well as UK and international caving clubs in a publication exchange scheme.

All newsletter issues from year 2000 onwards are available on this website as PDF files, and can be downloaded by volume and issue number using the Newsletter Archive page.

Latest Issue

Volume 66 Nos. 10-12, October-December 2024

Cover: Najdena Jama, Slovenia. Photo by Martyn Farr.
  • CSS Meets 2025 - Upcoming CSS Meets Jan-Dec 2025.
  • An Ariel Cave Exchange Trip - A sporting through trip from Ariel Cave to Sandy Hole in Portland, including an abseil off sea cliffs and a plenty of rift squeezes.
  • Sharbutt’s Rift to Ariel - A trip report from the team doing the through trip in the opposite direction.
  • Steve’s Endeavour South to Persil Rift - Another interesting through trip enjoyed on the Portland Meet.
  • CSS T-Shirts - Look cool in a CSS T-Shirt.
  • A Knotty Problem in Alum Pot - The tale of a memorable SRT trip in 1981 with a near catastrophic incident.
  • Trip to the Gouffre Berger - Bottoming the Berger during the Speleocamp of July 2024.
  • Library Acquisitions - Summary of books recently purchased for the CSS library.
  • Agen Allwedd - Midnight Passage Update - Update on the Spider Chamber dig and recent bolt climbing in Agen Allwedd.
  • Don’t Boob the Cam! - A suggested solution for inadvertently opening SRT cams with bosoms.
  • Benaullt Copper Mine - The North Wales Meet started on Friday evening with this short SRT through trip in the Nantlle Valley.
  • Britannia Mine - Report from the big Saturday trip of the North Wales Meet, a multi-level SRT through trip in this fascinating mine on Snowdon.
  • Pen Morfa Copper Mine - A visit to the interesting mine of Pen Morfa in Great Orme. Trip report also includes surveys of the route taken.
  • Slovenia 2024 - Reports from the club meet to Slovenia in July/August 2024, including cave information for: Križna Jama, Logarcek, Najdena Jama, Petniak, Planinska Jama, Postojnska Jama, Rakov Škocjan, Skednena Jama, Škocjanske Jame, Stota Jama, Jama za Teglovko, Tkalca Jama, Vranja Jama and Zelski Jama.
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