Trips & Reports

The valley entrance high traverse was something that I had been thinking about for quite a while. A video from Inglesport published a few months ago of this route in wet conditions had sparked interest from a few people about it. A very wet Craven weekend seemed like the perfect opportunity to do it. Information on the route is very hard to come by, however I did manage to find a topo, which suggested that 125m of rope and 31... read more

let me begin by saying that valley entrance is now my favourite cave, and the roof traverse is quite possibly my favourite thing ever. the day began (for me) at 8am, against my will, staring at the bunk above me and regretting the late night before - talks of cave began as soon as i got down the stairs and soon when everyone was eating breakfast we decided on doing what had been loosely planned the day before - valley entrance... read more

Wet weekend = incredibly loud Yordas. Genuine concern for hearing damage resulted in some speed derigging, crabs and all shoved into the bag. Very awesome though.

the day started not too early with an 8am start at the pre-packed car. we made it to inglesport promptly and enjoyed a good greasy second breakfast before we headed to the cave. we managed to get down to the cave by 11.30 (a whole hour earlier than predicted yay) we were slightly concerned that the rain would make it so we couldnt make it down final, but the entrance stream was practically bone dry which gave us hope for reaching... read more

We arrived on Leck Fell with minimal delay and shortly set off from the car after changing for the pleasantly short walk to the cave. Erika was to rig the first few pitches, so led the way with the 3 of us in tow. A short walk down the relatively dry stream, we reached the first short pitch down towards Dome. The short rope down led to a short walk before we reached the next short rope, Vestry pitch. Followed... read more

Cautious of the heavy and frequent rain we had had during the week, our flood-proof cave of choice for our Sunday trip was, of course, Lost Johns’. Since all of us had been to Lost Johns’ previously, yet none of us had actually made it all the way to the Leckfell master cave, we decided today would be the day we all made it down. To provide some interest and variety I suggested taking Dome, as Will and Flynn had... read more

Coolest cave ever and we didn't even get past the entrance! The entrance pitch to Gradisnica is incredible. I would describe it as very similar to Death's Head except three times wider and almost twice as deep. Ade rigged while me, Viki and Flynn sat at the top trying not to melt in the 30+ degrees heat. We waited until the very last minute to put our caving gear on properly as it was so hot that the prospect of sitting... read more

We nipped into Jama za Teglovko for some cavey photography after I had done the epic abseil over the entrance to Vranja Jama and Viki had de-rigged it. It was fairly late at night, maybe 10:30pm when we got in and midnight by the time we got out. The late hour was on account of the main cave of the day being the Gradisnica trips, and the fact that a whole day at Lake Bled was planned for the next... read more

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... read more