Trips & Reports

Having seen that our cronies over at YCC had completed a trip down Hensler’s Pot I thought a YUCPC permit may be of interest. During training on the thursday Ali and I packed the gear and loaded it in into the car. Peter packed his club gear and also put this into my car. With the car already packed all that was left to do on sunday morning was collect Peter and Ali. This made for excellent efficiency and resulted... read more

The day started very efficiently leaving the store at 0730 and easily finding the alternative route to Skipton avoiding the closed A59. Reaching a cold Ingleton at around 1000 we met Mark and all tucked into a decent breakfast. Some people bought gear in standard fashion and then we set off to Leck Fell……...let the fun and games begin. Leaving Mark’s car in Ingleton he clambered into mine and Rachel followed me. Unsurprisingly she didn’t know the way to Leck... read more

Well it was two years to the day since I last tried to find this cave, so a second attempt was called for. After much faff with grid refs, GPSs, maps, ismartphonewotsits and the like, we rested our navigational hopes on a screenshot of the map on Rachel's phone. As we drove to Langcliffe the rain intensified and 'twas somewhat inclement when we arrived. I watched in amusement as Findles performed some inexplicable manoeuvres in her pimpmobile, slipping and sliding... read more