ORGT Caving - What Now?
So, you've been through all three school trips (er, well, at
least one of them), and you still want to go caving. What do you
do?
Well, first off, have you gone to any of the subcommittee
meetings? Why not? These are where we meet every week, discuss
how trips went the week before, do basic subcommittee stuff, and
most important for you, figure out who wants to go on a
trip the following weekend. Someone always wants to go somewhere.
Don't be shy, speak up, find someone who's going somewhere that
you can tag along with.
To go on a horizontal trip, all you need to do is find a
Horizontal instructor or higher, they can check out gear for you,
and you can go (with that person tagging along). If you want to
do some vertical stuff, you'll need to find a vertical instructor
or trip leader since they are the only ones who can check out
ropes. It's just that easy.
Now it is always possible that one weekend there may not be any
trips going out at your skill level, but that's pretty rare, we
just couldn't keep up that pace all the time. So if you can't go
one weekend, just speak up louder at the next meeting, and you'll
get to go somewhere.
Finally, not everything gets planned out at the meetings, so we
have our own group mailing list where we set up trips, share
caving stories, and pass along useful information. If you'd like
to sign up for our e-mail list, just follow the instructions on
ORGT's subscription page.