The Vercors Pages

Speleo Vercors is a UK based caving club.which specialises in Vercors caving. Speleo Vercors was created in late 1997 to formalise and document the experience of UK cavers that have been meeting (on an ad-hoc basis) in the Vercors for well over two decades. Membership is by invitation only and prospective members must demonstrate a long term commitment to Vercors caving as well as providing on-going support to the club. Speleo Vercors is not a club for hangers on!

 

Benefits of Membership; Knowledge - there is a vast amount of Vercors knowledge within the club. The club also produces good quality T shirts and sweat shirts with an embroidered logo as well as high quality car stickers (currently out of stock).

 

Property: Some members of the club have purchased a properety in the Vercors. Whilst the property is nothing to do with the club, it will be available to club members as an option for accomodation in the area.

 

Long Term Projects:

 

Information: We are developing a data base of all known Vercors caves. The data base will reference caves by name and grid reference and provide links to surveys and other publications.

 

Guide Book: We are developing an English Language guide to the Vercors for cavers, to augment the two French guide books currently available. This project has now become this web site.

 

Speleo Dossier 1: We are documenting all previous (caving) visits (by SV members) to the Vercors to date, which have been published previously in various journals.

 

Trip Reports: Speleo Vercors has published the following reports:

 

Skiing '99 (paper)

Caving '99 (paper)

Skiing 2000 (paper)

Caving 2000 (including a Speleovision report) (paper)

Skiing 2001 (paper)

Bigbang Doggiepoopoo (parchment)

Skiing 2002 (CD or paper)

Caving 2002 (CD only)

Skiing 2003 (paper)

Skiing 2004 (paper and DVD)

Sun and Ski 2005 (DVD)

Vercors July 2007 (DVD)

Scialet Cloches (DVD)

Scialet Robin (Translation/description - paper)

The Mont Aiguille Guide (paper)

Scialet II des Chuats description (paper )

Trou des Anciens  (Draft -paper – translation)

Scialet du Combeau (Project description - paper)

Scialet du Combeau Rigging Topo (Paper)

Scialet du Chassillon (Draft - paper)

Grotte Roche description (paper)

Grotte de la Fentre 4 into Grotte Roche description (paper)