Welcome to York University Cave and Pothole club.
Exploring caves all over the world since 1981.
If you want to experience places few people get to see, wander in caverns six times the size of York Minster and abseil down to 300 metres underground, then come and see US! YUCPC is an ever-growing group of friendly cavers who meet every Tuesday & Thursday in the University Sports Hall at 8:00pm. We go caving every weekend, in the Yorkshire Dales, Peak District and sometimes further a field such as Wales and the Mendips. You don’t need to worry about gear as we have all the equipment and clothing you need... read more
October 24th - 26th
Freshers Bullpot Weekend
November 7th - 9th
NPC Weekend
December 5th - 7th
Christmas Meal
March 27th - April 5th 2026
Wales Week 2026
More events in the diary...31 July 2025
Nick Pot and not quite Juniper Gulf
Will Barlow wrote...
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 to pull over to deal with that before losing signal. The walk to Nick Pot was mostly fairly gentle uphill, not... read more
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