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Try Caving at Clearwell Caves
2 and 3 May – Give caving in the Forest of Dean a go, when Clearwell Caves hold its popular Try Caving taster sessions once again this spring.
If you’ve always wanted to give caving a go but never got round to trying the sport, now’s your chance when Clearwell Caves near Coleford holds special deep-level visits into its mine this spring – giving avid-explorers the chance to go off the public highways and experience the mine just as the miners left it centuries ago.
The sessions, being held as part of the Dean Outdoors Festival 2009 on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 April 2009 and Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May 2009, will see participants travel down to around 200ft underground.
Complete with plenty of crawling and scrambling, cavers will get to see fascinating workings and where iron ore and ochre has been mined for centuries, as well as passing through the ‘Rabbit Run’, seeing the ‘Football Roof’ and possibly trying out the ‘Mouse Hole’.
Organisers recommend wearing old clothes – which you won’t mind getting dirty, while helmets and caplamps are supplied. Be prepared to get dirty, get on your hands and knees and have fun at this popular Forest of Dean attraction.
Event: Try Caving Taster Sessions
Venue: Clearwell Caves
Date: Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May 2009
Times: Starts at 2pm
Tickets: Cost £12 per child, aged 7 to 16 years, and £17 per adult. Contact Clearwell Caves on (01594) 832535 for more information.
SoGlos.com
20 March 2009
