Trips & Reports

The original plan for this day was a super chill trip to either Fountains or Whitby Abbey, giving a nice day of rest between Wales and a weekend away at the Bradford. Checking the weather on Monday caused me some disappointment as it looked like rain was forecast to begin on the Thursday we leave for the Bradford. I was secretly (not that secretly) really hoping to do Diccan that weekend. However the weather that day and the next day... read more

To give a bit of context, this trip was dreamed up at a much too early hour of the morning, after all the other trip leaders abandoned us to our own devices. While Tyler and I were looking at the Big OFD, we noticed a small group of passages called the Prokofiev Series at the top right of OFD II, and decided it'd be fun to go and have a look the following day. Ben had no input on this... read more

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