Trips & Reports

Being a fan of efficient starts, we packed the rope the day before, and I ended the day before with a plan to pick Erika and Sophie up at 7am the next morning and to meet Jean-Luc either in the Dales or Skipton Morrisons. That all went fine, we met at Morrisons, ate, dealt with callout, and departed towards our parking spot on Crummack Lane. On the way we realised we didn’t actually have confirmation on our callout, so had... read more

In planning this trip, I looked at the topo, saw both routes, and thought "wouldn't it be fun to rig both". It turns out that it is actually really cool rigging both. The top of Shadow and Dong are located in the same chamber, so you can almost talk to each other whilst rigging/derigging. On the way back I found myself derigging Shadow whilst sat on this small shelf a few metres above the traverse line of Dong pitch. Right... read more

Non member James Higgins also was present and dived to Frakes Passage. James Goldberg expressed interest in tackling the sumps and of course knowing I would't hesitate. Lots of water in Vally entance from rain the night before. Once at the sumps James H disapeared on through and I proceeded after to wait for James in the first airbell. Arriving in Rowten hoping to Randevu with team led by Will B rigging Eyehole route, although to no aval. Dived through... read more

Originally a team of 5 guided by James Higgins down centipede. With an abundance of rope and myself never been nor rigged Lost Johns thought we would split. Smooth cave with good laughs as we made our way down linking with Jame's team at battle axe. First time Rigging with a stop. Actually first time using a stop. Its weird but kida nice. Dylan Kocher

A couple of fateful weeks ago Dylan put an open invite out in the group chat for an evening trip to Bogg Hall to take advantage of the dry weather. As an eager and slightly stupid caver I immediately signed up without doing any research. I was informed that this cave was a 'wetsuit kind of cave' and I took this as a great chance to use my new-ish cave wetsuit; only to realise halfway there that my lovely wetsuit... read more