Trips & Reports

Alfie paid me £10 to go to Northern Lights with him :) It was Monday afternoon and I was enjoying my hot chocolate in the SWCC kitchen after a lovely Top Round that morning, happy to be out of my stinky caving gear and in comfy clothes once again. Then Alfie wandered in, still in his undersuit, and announced that his morning trip had not been quite enough caving for him that day, and he wished to go to Northern Lights.... read more

I must preface this report by saying that I am not discouraging anyone from doing this trip. I will, however, be naming just about every time that I cried during this trip because I thoroughly did NOT enjoy it. I am writing this report to prepare Daren Cilau’s next victims, as I was supremely underprepared for the journey to Hard Rock Cafe. The first time I heard about Daren Cilau was about a year ago from (I think) Elliot, who had... read more

i started thinking about daren cilau just over a year ago, and since then ive been plotting to get myself in. there had been talk of daren trips this wales week however complications and faff led to final preparations and plans not being organised till the week before (classic). we settled on an overnight trip in the first weekend with elliot, elly, sqwill, and me; the others who wanted to do daren made other plans for the summer. i borrowed... read more

Tyler lost a banana, had to turn around.

I wrote this instead of doing my formatives, sorry Simon. - After a delightful day of descending Brewery Shaft, exploring the Coffin Level Mines below, enjoying a lovely Yellow Thai curry, playing on the local park, bruising our hips squeezing through a tyre and imbibing in part 2 of an awesome cheeseboard… the thrill of descending the shaft lured us in once again. Will and I had been excitedly plotting our fourth descent of the weekend since we had emerged from our third... read more

Catchy opening line here. The weekend began the way all the best weekends do - up at 7:30 for a 9am materials/mechanics lab - truly the best way to build anticipation. Once I had fled the excitement of the innovation centre I was free to prepare for the Shaft. I walked home with a brief cameo from that funny Alfred guy and packed in time for Sqwill's scheduled 12:53 arrival. I thought all about how I had probably locked my door... read more

I'd first heard about JH as a huge connecting trip with Titan, so hearing about it as its own trip - let alone one I could do this Saturday - was pretty intimidating. A lot of anticipation built up over the coming few days, I think people (read: Ben) got pretty tired of hearing I was doing it :)) Sunrise, parabellum - the morning of the trip, my alarm tried its hardest to sabotage me but I was up and packed... read more