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Caving - Potholing - Weaseling in Scotland

On our thoroughly satellite-mapped world, opportunities to set foot where no-one has ever been before is difficult and this is the essential lure of caving and weaseling. To be able to fulfil this ambition almost literally on your doorstep spells adventure of a unique kind, an outdoor pursuit that uses many other skills - camping, mountaineering, orienteering, diving - as tools of the trade. It's the ultimate 'wild sport'.

Wriggling scrambling and squirming like a weasel, you enter an underground labyrinth of tunnels, voids and tight spaces under a jumble of vast boulders that have lain undisturbed since the ice age.

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Boots n Paddles and Alpha Mountaineering take you into areas you will have never explored before however there are also a few caving clubs in Scotland - see their respective entries for more information. The premier and oldest caving club in Scotland is the Grampian Speleological Group (GSG), based in Edinburgh but with a national membership.

The (GSG) welcomes beginners over the age of 18, and provides trips as 'tasters' before signing up new members. Annual joining subscriptions for GSG are modest. Simply contact them by email at enquiries@gsg.org.uk. There are no full-time commercial caving ventures in Scotland.