Yorkshire Subterranean Society

The YSS has established for 46 years old (2010) and there have been some antics in our varied times with the club.

We have seen plenty of YSS lead caving expeditions around the world.   In 2009 the YSS ran an expedition to the Vercor to undertake various caves, canyons & a bottle or two to unwind!!!  The previous expedition in September 2008 was to Illumina (BU56) . It was organised by our expedition-organising guru Colin Gray along with Jason Mallinson. The expedition was a success with Jason diving into new territory and other members of the team improving the rigging in the caves and removing old rubbish.

We have many caving weekends which are generally (but not exclusively) held in the Dales and include a mixture of easy and difficult caving and over the past few years we have given lots of people the opportunity to experience caving with our Try Caving weekends.  These are popular and quite a few people have subsequently joined the club.

The YSS tend to be a club of stealth, we don't stand and shout about it, but just ask around - we are out there in various small groups and twice a month in larger groups at organised meets.  We don't just cave and our member are also into Climbing, Walking, Cave Diving, Cycling, Digging and Socialising you name it - it's all going on within our club.

Many of the Newsletters from the last few years are available on the site. We are hoping to expand this section further. Main articles from the Newsletters are also available in the "Articles from" section of the site, which allows you to find interesting articles more easily and is also available to the general public. Have a look at this section to see what members have been up to both recently and in the past.

In the YSS we are very proud of our Hostel (the School) as it offers some of the best bunkhouse accommodation in the Dales at a reasonable price in a good location....