Trips & Reports

Sooooooooooo pretty!!!!

A nice walk from Pont-ned-fuchan (or wherever it's called) up the river towared Ystrafellte. Along route we passed the old Silica mine workings, which were fallen down old stone building, surrounded by lots of rusty rock and slag heaps, and numerous evidence for former workings. In fact, we found the building where they probably did the melting part of the extraction, and if you run your finger roughly against the blackened stone, some soot comes off, and is smells of... read more

Well, no one else seems to want to document this trip... A complete cock up. Lessons: Take a watch.

Thoroughly enjoyable fun cave. Though I was rather annoyed that after the first 10 minutes my brand new wetsuit had developed a tear! Was treading rather cautiously after that which spoiled enjoyment slightly. ALWAYS WEAR AN OVERSUIT OVER A WETSUIT... WETSUITS ARE NO MATCH FOR A JAGGED ROCK!!! It's easily repairable however :-) The water levels were fairly low I reckon. After the first 15m or so, the entrance crawl narrows and stooping through a low... read more

Dinosaurs! SRT! Not so clear clear pools! Fizzy Pop!

I blame this walk for my blisters!! :( it was fun but I was really tired from the uphill bits which there were a lot of! fave part was the trees- I love running in and out of them in a forest! hehe what a weirdo

I did it! The round trip! I'm so happy! I'd been looking forward to this one for a whole year since I got a taste for this cave last time (on my second trip ever). Really pleased I got down into the sewers and got nicely wet. Matt - you've proved your wooseyness by finding the dry alternative route (but well done). Would be interested in exploring some of the other parts of this... read more

A superb trip and well done to Andy and Dom for remembering the way and navigating so well. With the exception of a few minor detours we hardly went wrong. The trip gets a 4 for hardcore, because of the entrance series being rather damp and grotty, and the 7 hour epic adventure being very tiring indeed. Forget the gym, or circuits... this has to be the ultimate test of cardiovascular fitness! Constant climbing and stomping! Owing... read more

it smelt REALLY BAD! :s dead things/bat poo/both..

This trip was actually quite faffy... we waited in the hut for an hour, but when we arrived we found the old guys were still getting changed and nowhere near ready to rig (the one ladder.) It was a freezing change, with most of us being wimpy and getting undressed in the 7 seater. The cave was pretty cool, apart from the initial stench of death at the bottom of the ladder. It wasn't particularly hard, although we did all wuss... read more

Really good fun had all round! Its quite small, short and scrotty but such a laugh. We were totaly caked in mud from head to toe and had to jump in the river after. It was nice to explore a fairly un-touched caving area. Lots more potential in the North York Moors so we must return. Read my other report about the other stuff we did in the [[a href="http://www.yucpc.org.uk/reports"]]Reports Page[[/a]]

Really good fun, the ultimately in short scrotty caves. With few passages measuring more than a couple of foot in any axis, lots of crawling, with knees and hands squelching in nasty reddy-brown mud several inches deep. We think we got to the bit known as 'the sphincter' which leads onto quite a bit more cave, including axphixia passage (joy!) however, we mistook it for a dead end we reckon. Nontheless a fun, 1-2hr long session, lots of exploring to be... read more

I'd say there was a fair bit of faff involved, seeing as it took Ollie an hour to decide he'd rather go to B & Q than come caving! Yes, uber scrotty cave, very slimy and tight in parts, and it went round in circles! Very confusing! Helpful signpost warning us to wait in the main chamber (10m in) (for what?!) and not to go any further, when all the interesting stuff was past there! We suspect a pirate hide out... read more

Without a doubt the most hardcore cave I've ever been in, and there be monsters down there... :o

Only short, but some really interesting giant red moths seem to have made home here. At the very back of the cave, look upwards and there will be loads of the scattered around the roof :-)

Another rediculously efficient trip. Very little water so not too challenging. Seemed a lot easier than last time. Good fun, but too short.

How come I'm the only one to put a three down for change? Come on, it was snowing!

If you can count the individual snow flakes then it doesn't count :p

It wasn't that snowy Ade!! It wasn't even actually that chilly undressing! Plus cos Nikki packed most of my stuff away for me it was a lot quicker change than normal.

aren't i nice? i rigged everything for the first time :) was a bit slow but got my confidence up :)

This was a fine Sunday cave. There was a good blend of crawling, stomping and ropework. It took us a while to find the right entrance, but once we had decided that the first hole we came across was perhaps a little too awkward even for Steve it was easy going down Wades once we had managed to get all our lights working! The first few pitches were gentle going with a good crawl between the first and second. The big... read more

We did indeed have some minor issues identifying wades and flood. The guide says that flood is 80m from bar. This is probably measured from path down into bar. Flood is the first small shake-hole where the entrance cuts back towards the path and drops into a small chamber/rift. The way on is very tight! (I almost for stuck, due to, 1) muscular buttocks, 2) a layer of ice on the wall (brrr!) and 3) a tackle sack on my head!). The... read more

An obscenely efficient trip - right from leaving the garage at 8:20am to getting back in time for a takeaway in York. Found the cave pretty much straight away (slightly squalid entrance up the hillside from the most obvious hole). First pitch a very pleasant 15m with 2 deviations (the guide suggests it is tight and awkward - it isn't). Short crawl/stoop downstream to the head of the big pitch. The Traverse of the Gods is very... read more

Supurb trip and it was great to visit this fairly newly opened entrance to Gaping Gill. We made it through to Mud Hall via a spectacular 40m pitch from the roof. Definatly one for ladders rather than ropes on the first 4 pitches, as some are quite tight and not yet P-hangered. Defintly remember to go feet first all the way to the first pitch! :p

Knackering, though oddly I'm not as sore today as I have felt afer other caves! The crawls were interesting with tackle sacks to say the least... I agree with Gary in that following instructions is good, there was some interesting yoga going on from Andy at the start, let alone noises!! Some of the formations we saw were pretty amazing, it was great to see them looking so pristine. I was a little disappointed GG wasn't as powerful as the last time... read more

Well... someone had to write something about the trip! Fun... well... as much fun as Bar Pot can ever be Hardcore... Yes, took me three days to stop limping and most of the week to be able to get a continuous nights sleep again. Change... nice... indoors with sandwiches and hot drinks! Faff... all excellent until the end! For furture reference, our new friends in Clapham reckon the entrance pitch is CONSIDERABLY easier to get off if it is rigged from one bolt (the left... read more

i shall summerise the main points: 5.5 hours underground. 4 ultra cold cavers from york 1 cut rope. 4 numpties from glasgow. -1 carabiner -1 survival bag 40ish bearded cavers. 1 landy with blue lights 1 ambulance. Yes, thats a cave rescue call out in longchurnn of all places. Thankfully it had nothing to do with us, glasgow had a fresher that having srt'd all the way up alum, decieded he couldn't srt or ladder out of dollytubs. We waited behind them until firmly cold, then we just decieded rudeness was... read more

And we didn't get very far down dolly tubs because *rant* someone(s) took ALL the Krabs from the container leaving us to rig on maillons which are slow and faffy. Please don't do that again when you know theres another SRT trip going on! *rant over*

Aw no-one has written a report for poor old lost john's, so I took it upon myself to do so! well, as my 2nd ever cave I was a little apprehensive, especially as debbie wasn't there to hold my hand (not literally gover ;) ) and tell me what to take, etc. but it was really fun! I realised I had an oversuit with a huge slit in a very unfortunate place, which was... read more

Unfortunatly didn't make it to the bottom as it took us two hours to find the entrance even with a compas, map and GPS! In fairness, it was mainly due to the thick fog and not being able to see my hand in front of my face! When we did finally get in, there was a bit of faff and re-rigging requried. We had intended to go down to the streamway but discovered a rotting sheep right where we needed to... read more

That expression on my face in some of the photos was because my ass had an unfortunate high speed encounter with the sports hall wall while derigging the deviation the previous Thursday. It was partivularly tender and that traverse in J.G was not nice! Otherwise, much fun, shame we hadn't found it sooner! :)

Rigging this cave scared the life out of me, it's [[b]]REALLY[[/b]] exposed! Ninety odd metre verticle shaft with a couple of reblays on the way down. Not forgetting the big slope of mud at the bottom, spending a remarkably short time down there, we were out in time to see sunset :)