Speleology 2, May 2003

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Juniper Gulf: A classic Dales pothole Expedition Report: Matienzo, Spain 2001 Cave exploration in the Moroccan High Atlas The new BCRA survey grades Subterranean biology: UK update Access to caves: the Countryside and Rights of Way Act Front Cover Photos: Portfolio by Tony Merino: (The Column / Formations' Beach / The Pool - see p. 7) Back Cover Photos: Ogof Ffynnon Ddu by Peter Collings-Wells - see p. 36)

In Brief

• Tips for reproducing photographs in magazines (Gibson, D.) 4
• Ordnance Survey maps: copyright warning (Gibson, D.) 5
• More of the Kingsdale Horse (The radiocarbon dating of the horse scapula was funded by the BCRA Research Fund) (Gibson, D.) 5
• Hidden Earth 2003 publicity sheets 5, 13
• Drink - and sleep in your car! (Financial Times 25.02.03) 6
• 2003 Wilderness Award granted to Jon Telling for his forthcoming 'Hell Caves of Northern Thailand' Expedition (Willis, D.) 6
• Ghar Parau Foundation Awards 2003 (Judson, D.) 6
• Knots I can't remember these days: 1. The bowline (The Rigging Dolly) 31

Overseas News

Spain

• Expedition Report: Matienzo, Spain 2001 (Corrin, J.) 17 - 19
• Caves in Spain over 1000m deep, from Subterranea 17, January 2002 30

Morocco

• Expedition Report: Bougoumez 2001, Cave exploration in the Moroccan High Atlas (Austin, E.) 22 - 25

The Balkans

• Web page of the Balkan Speleological Union www.balkan-speleo.org (Jalov, A.) 27

Greece

• Federation Hellenique de Speleologie formed in November 2001 27

Norway

• Norway's longest and deepest caves (St Pierre, D.; Gronlie, A.) 27

Features

• Hidden Earth 2002: Competition results (Calford, J.) 7
• Juniper Gulf: A classic Dales pothole (Gardner, J.) 8 - 9
• Subterranean biology: UK update (Proudlove, G.) 10
• The new BCRA survey grades (Day, A.) 11 - 13
• To leap, or not to leap, that is the question (comment on the use of forward legs only, rather than the leap-frog method of cave survey) (Stevens, J.) 11
• Access to caves: the Countryside and Rights of Way Act (Judson, D.) 14 - 15
• 2003 Cave Science Symposium 08.03.03, University of Bristol (Sapsford, M.) 16
• Portfolio of photographs, based on Andy Jackson's winning Premier Trophy Award at the Hidden Earth 2001 Photo Salon: Jingling Pot; Dow Cave; New Goyden Pot; White Scar Cave; Valley Entrance of Kingsdale Master Cave; all Yorkshire, UK (Jackson, A.) 20 - 21
• ISSA Art Exhibition, Wells Museum, March 2003 (Gibson, D.) 26
• OFD - The Virtual Tour, or what not to do with a digital camera (Collings-Wells, P.) 36
• Haiku poetry (Bison) 38

Special Interest Groups

Also see Special Interest Groups web page.

• Cave Radio & Electronics Group: The CREG Journal 50 (Stewart, T.) 34
• Cave Surveying Group: Compass Points 29, 30 (Stewart, T.) 34
• Special Interest Groups Further Information (Stewart, T.) 35
• Cave Photography Group - not a BCRA SIG (Footleg) 35
• Hydrology Group (Gibson, D.) 35

Book Reviews

• Raeisi, E. & M. Laumans 2003, Cave Directory Iran (Oldham, T.) 27
• Sottoterra 40 (113), August - December 2001, Italy (Oldham, T.) 27 - 28
• Journal of the Speleological Society of Japan 26, December 2001 (Nichols, T.) 28
• The Caving Journal 17, April 2002, Japan (Nichols, T.) 28
• Kosa, A. 2001, The Bir al Ghanam Karst and Caves, Tripolitania, Libya (Oldham, T.) 28
• Fernandez, R.A. 2001, Stanos de Mexico: Abismos de luz y sombra (Oldham, T.) 28
• Jaskinie 4 (29), 2002, Poland (Oldham, T.) 28 - 29
• Subterranea 15, April 2001, Spain (Nichols, T.) 29
• Subterranea 16, October 2001, Spain (Nichols, T.) 29
• Subterranea 17, January 2002, Spain (Nichols, T.) 29 - 30
• Svenska Grottor 9, 2002, Sweden (Oldham, T.) 30
• Holler, C. Jnr 2000, Caves of South Carolina, USA (St Pierre, D.) 30
• Powell, S. 2002, Subterranean Shropshire (Oldham, T.) 32
• Lewis-Williams, D. 2002, The mind in the cave (Oldham, T.) 32
• Howes, C. 2002, Radical Sports - Caving (Oldham, T.) 32 - 33
• Long, H. 2001, Stump Cross Caverns: Official guide to the show caves (Oldham, T.) 33
• The International Caver 2002 (Gibson, D.) 33

Letters

• BBC History Department needs suggestions for future programmes (Bergstrom, K.) 37
• A Dowsing Hypothesis (Fray, A.F.), with technical comments by Gibson, D. 37

@BCRA

• The Arthur Butcher Award 30
• Speleo Technics Prize at Hidden Earth 2003 31
• Cave Studies Series 11, Day, A., Cave Surveying; 12, Judson, D., Underground Britain: Legal and insurance issues 33
• Diary Dates 37
• Contacts List 38

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