Pre–congress excursions and field camps
Below you can find a preliminary list of excursions and field camps. A specific list and more detailed information will be available in Summer 2012.
The Czech Republic
Show caves and the most attractive UNESCO Sites of Czech Republic
Type: Guided field tripDifficulty: Easy
Accommodation: Hotels
Minimum No. of participants: 20
Maximum No. of participants: 40
Duration: 7 days
Caving in the Moravian Karst
Type: Speleocamp focused on cavingDifficulty: Easy to Difficult
Accommodation: Mountain hut or hunting lodge
Minimum No. of participants: 20
Maximum No. of participants: 100
Duration: 5-7 days
Caving in the Czech Karst
Type: Speleocamp focused on cavingDifficulty: Easy to Difficult
Accommodation: Mountain hut or hunting lodge
Minimum No. of participants: 20
Maximum No. of participants: 50
Duration: 5-7 days
The most interesting karstological phenomena of Moravia
Type: Guided field tripDifficulty: Easy
Accommodation: Hotels
Minimum No. of participants: 20
Maximum No. of participants: 40
Duration: 5 days
Bohemia - cradle of European mining (historic and recent artificial underground)
Type: Guided field tripDifficulty: Easy to Difficult
Accommodation: Hotels
Minimum No. of participants: 10
Maximum No. of participants: 30
Duration: 7 days
Slovenia
Slovenian part of Dinaric Karst 1
Type: Guided field tripDifficulty: Easy
Accommodation: Mountain hut or hunting lodge
Minimum No. of participants: 20
Maximum No. of participants: 40
Duration: 7 days
Slovenian part of Dinaric Karst 2
Type: Speleocamp focused on vertical cavingDifficulty: Difficult
Accommodation: Mountain hut or hunting lodge
Minimum No. of participants: 6
Maximum No. of participants: 16
Duration: 7 days
Austria
Ice caves of Austria
Type: Excursion to six of major ice cavesDifficulty: Moderate, SRT required
Accommodation: will be announced
Minimum No. of participants: not given
Maximum No. of participants: 15
Duration: 7 days
Germany
Fraconian Jura
Type: Family-friendly speleocampus with both cave and surface tripsDifficulty: Easy to moderate
Accommodation: will be announced
Minimum No. of participants: not given
Maximum No. of participants: not limited
Duration: 1 week
Caves and castles between Munich and Brno
Type: Guided field tripDifficulty: Easy
Accommodation: will be announced
Minimum No. of participants: 8
Maximum No. of participants: 40
Duration: 8 days
Poland
Meridional speleotraverse through the Central Carpathians and their northern foreland–confined speleogenesis in different settings
Type: Guided field tripDifficulty: Easy
Accommodation: Hotels or huts, details will be announced
Minimum No. of participants: 10
Maximum No. of participants: 20
Duration: 6 days
The high mountain karst of the Tatra Mts.
Type: Guided field tripDifficulty: Easy to moderate, no SRT needed
Accommodation: Hotels or huts, details will be announced
Minimum No. of participants: 10
Maximum No. of participants: 20
Duration: 6 days
Non-karst caves in the siliciclastic–clayer flysch of the Outer Carpathians
Type: Guided field tripDifficulty: Easy
Accommodation: Hotels or huts, details will be announced
Minimum No. of participants: 10
Maximum No. of participants: 20
Duration: 4 days
Hungary
Buda hill hydrothermal caves
Type: Guided field tripDifficulty: Easy, no SRT needed
Accommodation: will be announced – all possibilities available
Minimum No. of participants: not given
Maximum No. of participants: 40
Duration: 3 days