El Agreb
Member
You go caving for the weekend in the Dales but on expedition to Matienzo. Why?
What makes an expedition an expedition?
Is it just the mode of transport required to get there, crossing water or taking a plane perhaps?
Does this make a couple of days in Clare an expedition?
Or a trip down P8 for those of us who live on the other side of the channel an expedition?
Is pushing in the further reaches of long deep caves not an expedition if it only takes you 30 minutes from home to get to the entrance?
Do you have to spend ????days underground? So no more surface prospecting?
Is it finding metres of new passage?
Is Dan's "Earth Leakage" now an expedition, no longer the results of evening digging trips?
If it is not exploratory does this mean that the standard expeditions to the PSM or Berger are no longer the clubs expedition?
Is the word "expedition" just used to boost the egos of the participants.
Perhaps one needs to be in receipt of a Ghar Parau grant for it to be an expedition but does that mean if one self finances even though you might be pushing caves in Sarawak it is not.
Perhaps unless you are lucky enough to have a cave in your garden everything is an expedition.
So what is an expedition and what is a caving trip?
What makes an expedition an expedition?
Is it just the mode of transport required to get there, crossing water or taking a plane perhaps?
Does this make a couple of days in Clare an expedition?
Or a trip down P8 for those of us who live on the other side of the channel an expedition?
Is pushing in the further reaches of long deep caves not an expedition if it only takes you 30 minutes from home to get to the entrance?
Do you have to spend ????days underground? So no more surface prospecting?
Is it finding metres of new passage?
Is Dan's "Earth Leakage" now an expedition, no longer the results of evening digging trips?
If it is not exploratory does this mean that the standard expeditions to the PSM or Berger are no longer the clubs expedition?
Is the word "expedition" just used to boost the egos of the participants.
Perhaps one needs to be in receipt of a Ghar Parau grant for it to be an expedition but does that mean if one self finances even though you might be pushing caves in Sarawak it is not.
Perhaps unless you are lucky enough to have a cave in your garden everything is an expedition.
So what is an expedition and what is a caving trip?