Caving - Elver Canyon

Dates:

21 July

8:00am

Meet students at WBHS van shed and prepare for the trip

8:30am

Depart WBHS

9:10am

Arrive at Waipu Caves car park

Gear up and head up the hill

10:00am

Enter Elver Canyon via “Pregnancy Pot”

Head down into the bottom of the cave, exploring the “clean washed passage” both upstream and downstream from where the cave forks

After exploring the cave we will head back the way that we came.

3:00 - 6:30 pm

Exit cave

Head down to the van

Get changed

3:30 - 7:00pm

Depart Waipu Caves

4:00 - 7:30pm

Arrive at WBHS

Hose down all dirty gear, hang it all up to dry in the van shed

Clean out thermoses in back of D18

4:30 - 8:00 pm

Students free to go home.

IMPORTANT - this time can have a large variation depending on how people move through the cave.

Students will be in contact with home about 30-45 minutes before they will be ready to go home

8:00pm

If the school (Mr JT Thomas) has not heard from us by 8:00pm they will initiate late return procedures.

Gear supplied by each student:

• Thermals, warm socks, towel, change of clothes

• A bag for their wet clothes

• A water bottle

• Lunch and personal snacks

• Personal medications

Gear supplied by the school:

• Caving overalls, helmets, lights, white soled gumboots, maps, cave bags, ropes, harnesses, specialist caving safety equipment, and first aid equipment.

• Personal Locator Beacon

Special notes:

• Students may arrive and leave in mufti

• The cave is technical/tight in places – this may slow the group down. The exit time may well be delayed due to this.

• There is no cell phone reception at the Waipu Caves car park