Our discoveries

OUR DISCOVERIES
Descriptions, history, pictures, surveys: this table leads to more than 100 pages of information (but most still in Dutch...)

When the club existed only 2 years or so, we already were getting a bit tired of doing classic caves and we started digging frantically about everywhere... to find "our" cave. And a few years later we finally found a first new gallery, in the tourist caves of Neptune. Who could have known then, that this would be the start of a fantastic adventure.

In our small country, in which "every cave had already been found", we found over the years nearly 15 kilometres of new caves or galleries! Five of them passed the (to Belgian standards) important length of 1000 m: Système van Bretaye, Système Wéron-Dellieux, Grotte des Emotions, Réseau de Waerimont en Chantoir des Fagnoules.

In 20 years time we spend 1000 weekends in our "search for the Holy Grail": digging, working, discovering, surveying, exploring, protecting, studying new caves: a more beautiful thing, a caver cannot do.

Today, this "big adventure" is still keeping us very, very busy... so let's hope that the table below will change soon.

Cave	Year	Part	Description	Discovered metres
Grottes de Neptune (Couvin)	1988	Réseau du Tire-bouchon	Our first discovery, featuring a special formation	97
Trou du Blaireau Mort (Arbre)	1988		New, small cave.	50
Abime de la Chawresse (Tilff)	1988	l'Appendice	Near the end of Reso B, and very narrow	23
	1992 t/m 2003	Bibber & Blubber	An extremely difficult but important extension behind the sump in Reso B.	291
	1996	Réseau des Anversois	Again an extension near the end of Reso B.	154
	1997	Réseau Bolero	with 13 m Pitch	39
	2000	Passage de Noel	Direct connection between Réseau Persephone and the Classic part.	29
	2001	Cheminée Nationale	Chimney near the bottom of the Grand Puits (explored with GRSC)	33
	2004		Some bits and pieces everywhere	144
Trou d'Haquin (Lustin)	1989	Réseau X	Important extension near the end of the Réseau CRS	196
Systeem van Bretaye (Bomal)	1990 t/m 1993		Fantastic cave system, the wettest in Belgium, featuring an integral through-trip of 620 m between sinkhole and resurgence!	1721
Système Weron-Dellieux (Mont)	1992	Reseau Noir	Important continuation in a Classic Belgian cave. Some years later it would become the key to the discovery of one of the biggest caves, the Weron-Dellieux System	284
	1995-1996	Réseau Nord, Jonction des 4, Grand Puits	The Réseau Nord is a super-complex maze; the "missing link" between Weron and Dellieux. Thanks to this link, Belgium's most complex and most sporting cave system was formed	653
	1997	Réseau de la Topo Foutue	continuation found in May '97. Nice pitches, very complex.	615
Trou Dury (Mont)	1992		New part, opened at -25m, and leading down to -77 m.	300
Trou de l'Eglise (Mont)	1992 t/m 1997	Grande Evasion	The never ending story...	31
Trou Lecoq (Louveigne)	1993	Réseau 93	Interesting extension...	102
Grotte Strauss (Durbuy)	1994		New cave, of paleontogical interest	156
Grotte aux Contrastes (Izier)	1994		New cave, featuring a big room, some pitches, a lake and a lot of mud!	357
Trou Bernard (Maillen)	1994	Junctions Nr.Two-Central part	Two junctions that created great possibilities to do some roundtrips in this classic cave	50
Chantoir de Pont-le-Prêtre (Izier)	1994		New cave that gets too tight (...too soon).	30
Grottes Joseph 1&2 (Bomal)	1994-1996		Lot's of digging to find practically nothing!	30
Grotte des Emotions Prov. Liège	1995-1997		Our most beautiful discovery	2092
Grotte des Ecrevisses Prov. Liège	1995		Near Emotions...	50
Trou de la Loutre (Chaleux)	1996	Réseau Pourri	Small extension, to be continued	+/- 30
Réseau du Bois de Waerimont (Eprave)	1997-99	Réseau du Nouvel An; Réseau du Printemps	In 1996-97 SC Persephone found an important new part (Réseau de l'Euphorie; 860 m). Since sept.'97 Avalon continued the work and almost 3186m additional metres were found (situation 2005)! The total length of the cave is 4429 m.	3186
Grotte Préhistorique (Eprave)	1999	Salle Brocolli	A nice room in this fossil cave that is only 15 m. away from the Waerimont!	40
Trou des Poils (Eprave)	1999	.	This cave was dug out over its entire length since it could be related to the Waerimont.	25
Trou du Palan (Eprave)	2000		Small, muddy continuation	20
Grotte de Borlon (Grandhan)	2000	Galerie Blaffetuur	In this little but interesting cave we found, after some digging, a new gallery	38
???	2001	Réseau des Délices	Beautifully decorated part in a cave that we prefer not to publish yet.	156
Le Pressoir	2001		A lot of work to progress 10 meter in this hopeless sinkhole	10
Laminoirs de la Lembrée	2001		Countless sessions to dig out 40 m of gallery (Vallei van de Lembrée)	59
Système Fagnoules-Buc	2002-2011		New cave with a spectacular river, exploration still going on. In 2009 it was connected with another dig of ours: Chantoir de Buc	2969
Grotte Perséverance (Sprimont)	2003		Quite important but unstable new part	+/-75
Grotte Daniele (Hamoir)	2006		Extension of a small cave, digging still going on	153
Grotte Norbert (Hamoir)	2006		New cave, digging still going on	41
Chantoir N4 (Nettinne)	2005-2006		Sinkhole, defending itself quite well!	30
Grotte du Vieux Mac (Tavier)	2006		Small continuation	24
Grotte des Saribots (Nettinne)	2005		New, small cave	34
Grotte Mautain (Sinsin)	2007		New cave, with a big room	187
Welva 1 + 2 (Ferrières)	2007		2 New, small caves	25
Perte n° 144 - Trou Chaud (My)	2007-2011		New dig	68
Trou des Côtes	2008-2010		Our latest discovery, exploration still going on	730
D3 (Hamoir)	2009-2010		New dig	37
Perte N° 147 - Trou Froid (My)	2007-2011		New dig	20
A114 (Hamoir)	2010-2011		New dig	5
A132 (Vieuxville)	2010-2011		New dig	42
Perte N° 138 - Perte des Bouteilles (Ferrières)	2011		New dig	15
Tié de l'Aiwé (My)	2011		New gallery	15
Grotte du Moulin de la Lembrée	2011		Two new parts in a cave that was already known.	110


			TOTAL	15.662 m