Details
The camp is located at the Höfohaus, the building of the caving club "Höhlenverein Blaubeuren" near Blaubeuren-Seissen.
(See Höfohaus)
The infrastructure includes a meeting room, restrooms, shower and a campfire with benches for comfortable evenings.
Tents are placed on the meadow in front of the building.
There is also enough space for motor homes/camper vans.
Fresh water is available, but the building is not on the electric grid.
Electricity is only available while the generator is running, which is typically between 17 and 22, and on demand.
Additional showers are at the nearby gymnasium, and there is also a possibility to load lamps overnight.
Even in summer, it may be chilly in the evening and especially during bad weather.
On rainy days the temperature frequently drops to 15°C, during night below 10°C, so warm clothes are essential.
Please bring enough warm clothes!
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Image: introductions into materials needed for cave exploration. |
Please bring the following basic equipment for caving:
- overall/coverall (Schlaz)
- enough warm underwear, e.g. under-schlaz
- warm tracksuit or equivalent, fleece
- rubber boots/Wellingtons with a good profile
- helmet with electrical lamp (no carbide lamp)
- spare lamp
- accumulator loader
The participation fee is:
Age 25 and younger |
270.- € |
Age 26 and older |
360.- € |
This includes:
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Image: the field kitchen. |
- accommodation for 16 days (place for a tent, restrooms, showers, recreation room)
- 3 meals per day for 16 days
- support and training in small groups by experienced cavers
- excursions by car and bus
- entrance fees for common activities
- a CD-ROM with the course documentation
- youth group insurance (health, third party liability, accident) for participants age 25 and younger for the duration of the camp
Please bring an international health insurance certificate to make processing easier.
Participants age 26 and older are not included in the insurance, so we strongly recommend they have their own
insurance (health, third party liability, accident including salvage costs).
How to Apply:
- Download the registration form in your preferred format:
as Word File |
as PDF |
as OpenOffice File
- Fill in (see below fo details).
- Send your registration by email or snail mail.
- Wait for confirmation.
- Immediately after confirmation make your advance payment of €50.
- Make your full payment until June, 30th, 2020.
How to fill in the registration form:
The registration form must be signed.
As electronic registration is preferred, it is necessary to scan the signatures and send them by email.
By Email (preferred)
- Download the registration form in your preferred format:
as Word File |
as PDF |
as OpenOffice File
- Save the document with a different name or rename it, replacing the placeholders Surname and Firstname by the name of the participant.
- Open the documents with the respective software (Word, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Acrobat).
- Fill in the fields in the document.
- Print the first page.
- Sign the printed page:
- the participant
- for participants younger than 18 the signature of a parent or legal guardian
- the head of the caving club where the participant is a member
- Scan or photograph the signed page. We recommend a smartphone with a document scanning app. On Android there is for example the free app CamScanner.
If the app has this feature create a pdf file and give it the name Anmeldung2020e_Surname_Firstname_Signature.pdf.
- Send both documents by email to
- Please bring the original with you to the camp.
By Snail Mail
Of course you can also print them on paper and send them by snail mail.
Please fill in the registration on the computer or use block letters, as readable as possible.
Make sure the name, address and email are correct and readable, otherwise feedback becomes difficult.
Please send to:
Knut Brenndörfer
Blaubergstraße 6
D-89143 Blaubeuren
Additional Information:
- Due to the limited capacity, we recommend early registration!
- Closing date for registration is June, 30th, 2020.
- With the confirmation of the registration you will get a detailed map with our location and a checklist of things you should bring to the camp.
- Further contact data:
- Phone: +49-7394-1566
- Mobile: +49-174-7463011
- Email:
