Wookey's holiday page

• August 2002: Austria/France. 2 weeks of CUCC expo (Tess came out for a trip down Eishöhle, then we escaped from the terrible rains for a week in the Stubai Alps Hut-hutting and bagging the Liesener FernKogel with Alex Cheesman. After that Tess and I vistied the Vosges/Alsace - walking, MTBing and touristing. Here are the raw pics from the second half of this trip - rotation and labelling to come later.
• Jan-Feb 2002: New Zealand. Took a quick look at most of NZ and tried a few new sports along the way. One of which was rafting. Here's some pics of us coming down the 7m Kaikoura falls, which is a daft thing to do in a raft, especially with a lardy german behind you. And now there's an animated version.
• June 2001:China Caves Project expedition to Jiang Kou, Sichuan/Chongqing province. 11th June to 2nd July. Small expedition returning to the wet and scary caves of the area and samle the extreme foreignness of china. Da Xioa Dong was remarkable stuff - scary levels of water and a lot of pitches made for some excellent technical exploration. There are some pics of this courtesy of Chris Densham.
• May 2001: Trip to Skye staying in JMCS hut at Coruisk. Very damp so didn't get to do any climbing but did a good scramble, painted the hut and had a couple of nice walks although the second turned into a mild epic due to appalling weather.
• September 2000: Malaysia. Snorkelling and festering on genuine tropical islands in the Perhentians off peninsular Malaysi, then 2 weeks in Sarawak at Bako National park (Mangroves and Rainforest) and Mulu National Park (World class caves).
• July/August 2000: Austria caving expedition. 3 weeks. Some excellent ice-caving in Eishöhle.
• May 2000: 1 week in austria with a group of German cavers.
• April 2000: 5 days in the forest of fontainbleau, bouldering.
• November/Decmeber 1999: South Africa and Swaziland: Mpumalanga and Kwazulu-Natal - Blyde River canyon, Kruger Nat Park, Mlawula Nature Reserve, Sodwana Bay, Drakenberg Mts (Cathedral peak, Natal NP and Golden Gate NP areas)
• July/August 1999: Austria caving expedition and Mountaineering/Klettersteig in Austria and Italy (Dachstein/Dolomites). Then Canyooning in the Maritime Alps, France.
• 1999 20-26March: Quick trip to Fermanagh, N.Ireland for some caving.
• July/August 1998: Austria expedition and Canyonning in the Vercours.
• 1998: 22nd April to 14th May: Utah's National Parks - marvellous, photos to follow...
• August 1997: 7th - 21st August - Union Internationale de Speleology conference in switzerland, including prior electronics meet, and subsequent Surveying meet.
• July 1997: 19th July to 3rd august - Canyonning in the Alpes Maritime, France
• April 1997: Recce to Katavothra valley, Greece, to search for caves at local sink.