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

I’d been saying for the last two nights that my next day would be a rest day, but alas each potential rest day was foiled by too-tempting of a cave trip. This day it was a photography trip to Skyhook. Viki had promised that the biggest crystal pool ever would be waiting for me, and that I would be allowed to take all the pictures I wanted. We bimbled into Top, combining the start of our trip with the Northern Lights... 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