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The person who first took me caving 25 years ago turned up at the annual conference in 2001 - his first appearance
for many years - and was amazed to find that he still recognised many of the people
present. His experience typifies what we have all known for a long time - cavers are
getting older and there are not a large number of new faces appearing.
The make-up of caving clubs has changed too - SRT saw to that - and, from BCRA's point of view, there seem to be far fewer volunteers around to do the tasks that we would like to be able to do.
It
may seem rather strange that, in this climate, we are attempting to embark on a new venture but there are reasons - we think they are good ones - why we have decided to do this, as outlined in these
pages.
Contributing to Speleology
BCRA members do quite a bit of 'science' but much of it does not get reported. Many of the science lectures at Hidden Earth would make suitable articles for this
magazine, if the authors could be persuaded to write them up.
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