Trips & Reports

OMG FAFF!!!

Level 3 scummyness due to kev and chuck repeatedly farting and causing cave evacuations :s

I think you will find the person who caused us to evacuate from the final part of the cave was actually Laz! But great fun being allowed to roam free in a show cave. Meeting the owner was very cool too, looking forward to going back!

I'm sure mine was just an "audible alert" rather than some real "bad air" like Kevin's!! :p Was good fun, and especially good that you can be sitting down with a cup of tea within about 10 s of leaving the cave (as long as you run and there isn't a queue!). First time I've ever seen a double-glazed door on a cave entrance! 8)

Doesn't White Scar have a double glazed door leading to Battlefield Chamber? Tea and food reasonably priced etc...

Excellent fun! I liked that no one took us round it so we could be really silly. I disliked Kevins contributions to the trip :P Jacket potato, Licorice tea, Kevin's chips and Nikki's soup were all yummy.

I would like to point out that although I tried to follow Kevin's lead in the bad air production, I was unable to do so. This may have changed in the car on the way home. :)

Finally got round to doing Cow after a failed attempt ages ago. The day started with an interesting route to Ingleton via the A1M Southbound (don't ask), but despite that, and not getting out of bed until half 8, we arrived at Ingleton by 11am! A super efficient trip! We got up to the end of Montague West to see the pritties and back out in about 3 hours! Some interesting rigging at the top of Fall Pot; I thought it... read more

Great trip! My third attempt due to first time going the wrong way from the bottom of the entrance, and second time a member of my team developing an injury on the way down the slot at the bottom of the entrance. So I was hoping for third time lucky! The slot down at the bottom of the entrance pitch has a fixed rope in place. It's quite easy to get down, but more challenging to get back... read more

Having been told it was a grade 5 squeezy cave where people have gotten stuck on previous trips I was expecting it to be absolutely horrible. But actually, other than a couple of short squeezes and a couple of slightly dodgy climbs, it's really not that hard - no harder than most grade 4 caves. So an unexpectedly pleasant trip, hard enough to be interesting but not too much. Near the bottom can be found a series of in-situ SRT ropes... read more

In my defence, all I told James was that there were 2 bits where I couldn't get through cos I'm weak and have a fat arse. And I did say that it didn't seem like a grade 5 to us when me, Si and Debbie did it, and that it was more a grade 5 from the danger perspective. When I did this trip the first time I swore I would never go back, and when I did go back I... read more

It was great to finally get the opportunity to do this cave. Had a wonder up the streamway to Ink Sump, with some interesting noises from the scaffolding poles we'd all been asked to carry! An easy source of pack horses for the diggers in Peak me thinks! A few of us did the short sump before Ink Sump but most went though the bypass. Some superb caving lead us all to Moss Chamber, via the fun mud slopes and some... read more

We speeded down to the sumps (carrying a scaffold pole each) and had a bit of a splash about, and a handful of people did the free-dive sump. We then headed back, turning off along towards Moss Chamber. This entails climbing up out of the streamway and along a long hands and knees crawling passage for some distance, until you can pop up and into a chamber at the bottom of a muddy slope. A slippery climb... read more

When a guide says "bring a large adjustable spanner" you should read that as "bring a large adjustable spanner." Not "bring a small spanner cos it'll probably do" as a small spanner simply ain't big enough! Luckily we now own (after a lovely jaunt to Bakewell, which seemed very vibrant) a spanner that fits the above large and adjustable requirement. The mine itself was easy to find. Join and follow the nature trail until you see a sign about caving access,... read more

Water levels were quite high (and colder than usual i'm sure!) so we got a proper soaking on the pitch, fixed ladder and cascades. Very pleased when we got to the sump that we could head off up the relatively dry return route..only to find other cavers coming down who said the giant's windpipe was sumped :( back up the wet way, which is actually quite fun in reverse with all the little climbs! Then out as quick as possible... read more

The plan was to go down maskhill mine and then exchange with another group at the bottom thus coming back up through Oxlow mine.... After three wrong caves and three hours of walking around on the hillside we decided to give up and head back to the car. Basically we couldn't find the cave. However, on the way back to the car we accidentally stumbled across the cave entrance only now the time was just after 2 and we'd agreed... read more

Pleasant, quick and uneventful trip to bottom. No other groups down there - a minor miracle!

We went in 2 teams. I rigged the Engine Shaft and Andy G led the way into the main entrance. It was snowing in the Peaks and snow was lightly falling whilst we were having to repack the bags after some doofus packed ours incorrectly. Browsing around for Meccano Passage was fun, but unsuccessful. However, on looking at Kevin's survey in the pub, we think we know where it is, returning is a must! A good idea for the next time we visit would be an exchange... read more

It snowed! It was fun at first waiting at the top in the snow, but then I got a bit cold while Lauren, Si and Shrek went down. It was fun to go in and out different ways as last time we just went in and out the tunnel way. Coming out to snow was also ace, it cooled me down nicely, but a little too much. Mulled wine, spicy bean burger and curly fries by the fire were a must!

Could have been better transportwise wise, it seems Si's little car struggled a bit and unfortunately didn't really like the hill, with lots of steam appearing. Now we know the routes in we have got quite efficient and I enjoy the trip through the tighter Whalf exit, much easier than the big pitch out!

Bit of an error, i.e. me being an idiot and not being able to find it for a while. boo. Found the clints (?!) and went in. The first two pitches were done well, hurrah for the freshers' first srt in a cave, however due to wandering around, tiredness and the freezing water mean we didnt get to the last pitch.

This cave is so much more fun than i remembered! completely forgot about the whole crawling in water joy, and then popping up through the ceiling! good old drafts leading the way.

Couldn't go down Tatty Wife as a pair (who took a while to work out where they were going) confirmed that they were part of a group ahead totalling seven. Stuff that. So after umming and ahhing and listening to Nick Drake I decided on Bull Pot. We met Cambridge Uni down there - they're very good at knitting ropes together.