2009 15th International Congress of Speleology, Texas USA

[Joe Duxbury]

How many of you plan to attend the UIS Congress next year?
Registration ought to be possible on-line soon:

http://www.ics2009.us/welcome.html

If enough people have plans in common, then pooling of car hire would make good economic sense, and finding someone to share a dorm room with would halve your accommodation costs.

The last time the congress was in Texas didn't certain British cavers display an admirable capacity for beer-drinking?
(Oh no, does that mean there's a reputation to be upheld?)

Read the UIS Congress website, and add a post to this topic if you're seriously interested.

 

[mrodoc]

I would like to go and am trying to persuade the wife to go. She might come out of caving retirement again if the caves were warm and dry! I was going to look at website shortly having just got back from hols and thinking about the next trip.

 

[paul]

I'm thinking about it...

 

[Cookie]

I've been to two NSS Conventions. Both have been brilliant.

This is an NSS Convention with knobs on.

So yes, I'm going.

 

[graham]

It is not betyond the bounds of possibility that me & the wife might go.

 

[Cookie]

The last time the congress was in Texas didn't certain British cavers display an admirable capacity for beer-drinking?
(Oh no, does that mean there's a reputation to be upheld?)

Was that the year a certain Hazel Barton was in charge of ordering the barrels?

Hazel is British but adopted by the Yanks. She naturally ordered based on UK cavers consumption rates which are a tad higher than your American caver.

So there was JRat and Sparrow making a valiant effort to drink the vast excess of beer. 

Couldn't let Hazel down, now could they?

 

[Joe Duxbury]

The registration forms are now available on the ICS website.