Best guidebook for Doubs caves?

CavingForLemons

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Or online resources

Looking for route descriptions, topos and surveys for classic Doubs trips - which book(s) would people reccommend I try to get hold of?
 

hannahb

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There is a PDF guide translated into English. I can send it by email if you let me have your email address by direct message?

Unsolicited advice: The guided through trip on the Swiss border (name escapes me) is well worth it - you exit approximately one metre from a caving hut. Take sandwiches :) I can send an email address of someone in Switzerland who can help organise, if useful. The one with lots of swimming (Grotte de Chauveroche) is also really good, but I found it really cold even in a wetsuit and we didn't get as far as we thought we would (we assumed the guidebook was over egging it)
 

CavingForLemons

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There is a PDF guide translated into English. I can send it by email if you let me have your email address by direct message?

Unsolicited advice: The guided through trip on the Swiss border (name escapes me) is well worth it - you exit approximately one metre from a caving hut. Take sandwiches :) I can send an email address of someone in Switzerland who can help organise, if useful. The one with lots of swimming (Grotte de Chauveroche) is also really good, but I found it really cold even in a wetsuit and we didn't get as far as we thought we would (we assumed the guidebook was over egging it)

Messaged! Thank you so much
 

Pitlamp

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Grotte de Milandre

Is that the one where you come out up a 30 m (ish) shaft after going upstream from what was once a show cave? If so I've done that and I can highly recommend it. Excellent streamway with loads of cascades and some nice formations. From memory it may be best done in a wetsuit. Very much like Dales caving. Avoid if rain is forecast.
I remember it had to be planned it in advance with the Swiss folk but they were very helpful.
 
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