Trips & Reports

What a brilliant trip! Something completely different. We split into two groups and set off 5 minutes apart so as to avoid a faff fest. Rachel, Cat, Andy and I were lead by Tim and we set off behind the others. Right from the start the mine was physically involving and full of interesting features. A steep descent past some impressive iron oxide stals, corkscrewing round through big stopes and small tunnels, walking over false floors and huge piles of... read more

A fun and interesting trip as always. We walked over from Tanygrisiau - a scenic route but with lots of ascent. Fans of ferns, mosses and lycophytes will find much to delight them thereabouts. Many features of the mine I had forgotten since my last visit, including the bottomless pool and incline right at the start. There were brand new ropes on the pitches which was reassuring. At the zip line, we used the massive in-situ roller instead of our... read more

When I first heard of the Three Peaks Three Pots challenge, I was a young whippersnapper in Manchester. Chris Jewell had offered a free lift up to the Dales in return for some support for his attempt. My memory of that weekend is walking from Brackenbottom over Ingleborough to Meregill on a very windy night, waiting at the entrance for cavers to appear while slowly eating the food we had brought for said cavers, who did not appear, then making... read more

Having been a Main Chamber whore for some time now and watching Sid Peruo’s film The Lost River of Gaping Gill I was intend on heading into the Far Country. I set about recruiting some reprobates; Alistair ‘Lumens’ Rollinson, Ban Doothby and our resident Scots member Rachel Findlay. It was decided that we would meet up at the container at 0700 on Tuesday morning in order to try and miss the worst of the Harrogate traffic. The morning started amusingly,... read more

Faff-tastic was one way to describe this trip, addmitedly not all of our doing. We all fancied a relatively short trip, and so Walmslers recomended this. We met at the much more civilised time of 10, left by 10.30 but hit traffic (faff no.1). After stopping for copius amounts of cream cakes for second breakfast (an essesntial not a faff!) we eventually reached Kingsdale, where we had to arrange a callout in an area of weak signal (faff no.2). We... read more

Twas reet early one morning in May When Walmslers did rise from the hay He thought as he ate his breakfast pie: “Let’s go down Otter Hole in the Vale of Wye”. So he hopped in his black chav-mobile And stopping for coffee at Keele, By 7 reached the campsite at Chepstowe Finding the others all ready to go. Andy H, Vicky B, German Sophie, And to get them all psyched, Andy G From there, they all did a-hasten To meet their great leader, Pete Mason. Now the walk through the woodland... read more