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 67 Nos. 1-3, January-March 2025
- Llanelly Quarry Pot Collapse - News of a recent collapse of the Llanelly Quarry Pot entrance.
- The Big Daren Clean-Up – Sharp End Report - After the epic clear out of the HRC and Western Flyover camps, all that remained was to get the rubbish out of the cave…
- The Big Daren Clean-Up – So where did all the rubbish come from? - A background summary of the Daren Clean-Up project.
- CSS Meets List - Upcoming club events April-December 2025.
- Aggy Mug News - New mugs in Southern Stream and Main Stream Passage.
- Tunnel Cave - An SRT trip to Tunnel Cave, which took place on the February Whitewalls Meet.
- CSS Hoodies and Sweatshirts - Details of how to look as cool as Tom Cruise in a new CSS Hoodie.
- Return to Vietnam - Four days of caving adventure in Vietnam on the Oxalis Hang Ba tour, including excellent photos by Martyn Farr.
- Recollections of Early Days in CSS - Reminiscences of caving, expeditions and hut building in the early years of CSS.
- Clive Calder - A tribute to Clive Calder, an active member of CSS in the 60s and 70s who passed away in November.
- Daren Cilau – Ovaltinees Flood Discovery - A report of recent flooding at the Hard Rock Café camp, which left the Hard Rock extensions sumped.
- HRC Extensions Flooding Update - With water levels receded, the first attempt was made to reopen the Hard Rock Extensions.
- Retro Gear Review – MyCoal Body Warmer Heat Pads - A test of the effectiveness of 30 year old heat pads discovered on a Daren camp.
- The History of the Carrion Slocker Cave Dig - The excavation and extension of Carrion Slocker in East Mendip from 2016 to 2024.
- Extending Krem Amarsang – Meghalaya 2025 - An expedition report from the explorations of the Krem Amarsang system, Meghalaya in January 2025.
- Trevor Kneif - A tribute to Trevor Kneif, including an extract of his discovery of Pwll y Gwynt.
Previous issues of the CSS Newsletter are available in the archive