PIERK / Caving Magazine
Summaries of Pierk number 4, December 2009
by: Renato Banti
- 3 Van het bestuur (John Tibbe) Commentary Summary about the new Flyer, process on improving the written club regulations, insurance, website and such.
- 4 Biology of Caves and Other Subterranean Habitats (Silvia Gourtier) Book review Silvia tells about volume 16 of "biology of habitats". A real read.
- 5 Onder Professoren (15th ICS) (Marion Gijbels en Margriet Ouwens) Trip report The tale of two caving ladies; their visit to the ICS and exploits thereafter.
- 16 Elke dag een P200 (Oswald Pauwels) Cave technics How to frog a 200m rope without help of some body.
- 17 Heer Olm der grotten (Sylvia Goutier) Trip report The Proteus was seen in large numbers during a visit to an abandoned tourist cave in Slovenia.
- 19 Schravelaar najaarskamp Vercors 2009 (Viola van Staalduinen) Trip report A club trip to the Vercors region in France. Five caves were visited.
- 27 Verborgen ontberingen tijdens Hidden Earth (Silvia en Henk Goutier) Commentary Report on the FSE meeting during the Hidden Earth conference.
- 30 Exploratie van de Pozo Azul (René Houben) Cave diving exploration This article reports on the year long exploration of Pozo Azul. With the help of underwater scooters, rebreathers and a lot of human resources the cave is pushed deeper and deeper.
- 38 Lange Frans in de St. Anne (Otto Laureijs) A television station is creating a series on our worst fears. Claustrobia is an obvious choice, but one that does not concern most of us cavers. Therefore, SN-members were asked to guide the filmcrew in a populair cave near Liège.
- 40 Lekker warm op Mallorca? (Tjerk Dalhuisen) Trip report Caving in Mallorca was hoped to be easy and confy. Easy, it proved to be, but the caves anticipated gentle temperatures turned out to be rather fresh.
- 44 Grottogadets (Jos Burgers) Column about emotional side of gear. The Pie bottle. How to carry your pie out the cave.
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