Lancaster University Speleological Society

LUSS, and its graduate offspring, the Society of Lancaster University Graduate Speleologists (SLUGS), is based on campus in Lancaster, within very easy reach of the Yorkshire Dales. Hence it has become one of the more active clubs over the years, with young cavers trained on weekends in Yorkshire travelling further afield each summer. Best known for major explorations in the Picos de Europa of Northern Spain, it has a reputation for high quality (if infrequent) publication.

LUSS have their own web pages, or may be contacted via their contact page or maybe directly through email. Their web page gives:

  LUSS@lancaster.ac.uk (but I get a bounce from this address)

Lancaster University Speleological Society worked in an area out to the north of CUCC's home turf, between Wildensee, Hohes Augst-Eck and Gr. Scheibling Kogel, on three expeditions in 1987, 1988 and 1989. Some of the caves they explored lie within the 1623 area, although the boundaries between areas are not very well-defined hereabouts.

The descriptions included in our pages are taken (with permission, for which our thanks) directly from their reports, published in the UK:

CTS 88.1467 Austria Reconnaissance Expedition 1987, Lancaster University Speleological Society
CTS 89.1866 Dead Mountains Expedition 1988, L.U.S.S. 24pp illus.

I only have an incomplete pre-publication report from 1989 (the full report was never published), which means that there is no description of the 1989 extensions to LA11 in these pages.

Copies of these reports (if still in print) are available from:

Lancaster University Speleological Society,
c/o Neil Turton,
34, Williamson Rd.
Lancaster.
United Kingdom

(note that the Bailrigg campus Pigeon Holes address, given in many LUSS publications and in old versions of this page, is now unlikely to reach the Society).

As they may still be in print, these reports are not in our web pages at present, though the descriptions of caves in 1623, and the more significant ones in 1626 are. Stoppress: from 1999, some of this material is appearing on the LUSS website (see link above). Expect the C&C 38 article to appear shortly, but currently the link in LUSS's own index page is broken, so I don't know the URL.

Other reports of the LUSS work appear in:
CTS 87.1514 LUSS Austria Reconnaissance Expedition
BCRA Caves & Caving 38 (Winter 1987), pp 27-30
CTS 88.1468 LUSS The Dead Mountains Expedition
BCRA Caves & Caving 42 (Winter 1988), pp 20-21
CTS 89.1844 The Dead Mountains Expedition 1988, P Ibberson
Expeditions Yearbook 1988, pp 91-92 (obtainable from the Expeditions Advisory Centre, London.)
CTS 90.1298 The Dead Mountains Expedition 1989, P Ibberson
BCRA Caves & Caving 47 (Spring 1990), pp 25-28