Trips & Reports

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

Chamber of Horrors. Dylan Kocher, SUSS Alfie(Alfie Burnley), Bangor Alex (Alex Jhonson) Chamber of Horrors holds court in many a caver's mind. This has certainly always been the case with myself. Stories and reports become things of legend. Tales of ever increasing water levels. A clock ticking away pulling young cavers in to test themselves against this UK classic trip. The actual Chamber of Horrors is rather a different experience altogether. When coming face to face stripped away from the daunting... read more

Since the very first friendship bracelet I gave Sophie, with ‘Long Churn’ written on it instead of a Taylor Swift song, pretty much every trip I have gone on since has been commemorated by making a new bracelet for each caver I went with. It’s great fun, but it has rather backfired on me in some ways and was very much the instigator of the ridiculous endeavour me, Sophie and Viki undertook on our last day in Wales. I’d been assured... read more