Caving to ye olde Bungonia

Hi there!

Matt and i will be leading a caving trip to Bungonia this weekend.

At the moment the plan is to drive down Saturday morning, camp Saturday night do so more crawling and head back Sunday arvo/night to Sydney. Please say what days you are keen for so we can cater for demand.

Bungonia campground has hot showers and indoor facilities to cook/clean and hang out. But you will need to bring all your own gear: tent, towel etc.

For those not in the know caving involves navigating dark underground passages. This can involve walking, crawling, squeezing, abseiling down a drop and ascending back up and getting lost (jokes). It will also involve getting quite dirty, caves aren’t clean.
In Bungonia most caves are not very featured so don’t expect to see a rooms of amazing features like jenolan caves. But do come prepared for a great adventure!

Please provide what abseiling/ascending experience you have in the comments.

Caving gear list:

• *Harness
• *Safety sling & biner
• *Descender (figure-8 preferred) & biner
• *2x Prussik & biner
• *Helmet
• [optional] Jumars (hand ascender, chest ascender, or whatever your preferred set up is etc.) [we can share if you don’t have your own]
• Headtorch
• Back-up light (second headtorch, ideally 3)
• spare batteries (batteries in each headtorch, and one spare set for each headtorch)
• lunch, snacks and rigid water bottle
• [optional] small backpack (we can share so dont stress too much)
• Shoes to get dirty
• Clothes to get really dirty if we cant get cave suits.
• Clothes to wear under cave suits (I usually go for just a t-shirt/thermal top and leggings)
• gloves
• covid mask
• lighter
• [optional] Knee and/or elbow pads can make crawling much more comfy if you have them
• [optional] camera ( be prepared to lose anything you bring into a cave)

Camping gear list

• *tent (sharing is good for warmth but not covid, I will leave that to your personal choice)
• *sleeping mat and bag
• warm clothes!!! it will be cold, check the weather
• food and utensils for dinner
• towel for them hot showers

—> items with a * can be borrowed from club on gear night