Trips & Reports

Attempt number two for Ireby! This time with greater success seeing as though no one else was up masongill this time! Rigging through the Shadow route proceeded fairly smoothly all the way to the bottom with only minor faff to re-rig bits so we had enough rope for the last big pitch. Squeezing and crawling through the streamway is more than made up for by the view in Duke Street. Lots of impressive formations throughout which seem relatively undisturbed really make... read more

A good little trip to a well decorated cave. Take note, if you find a rigging guide, the rope lengths are wrong. The guide says take a 25 and a 45, with a 25 and a 60 I still hit the knot near the bottom, so a 25 and a 65 would be best. Arriving on Leck Fell to some pretty rough weather I was gratefull when Walmslers said we could get changed in his car boot. Thankfully the navigation to... read more

A Friday night bimble

Pie?

Fairly straightforward to the bottom but derigging from the sump to the top via adamsons route took about 5 hours and made the trip a bit more difficult than we were expecting for Notts. After reaching the surfaces with lights dimming and bodies aching we were looking forward to a quick walk back to the car and some food and drink at the NPC. Leck Fell had other ideas and we spent an hour groping our way slowly accross the... read more

After water and an uncertain forecast made a retreat sensible a couple of weeks ago I was keen to return and finish this route. As the sky was blue and the stream-flood exchange was full I thought that now was the time so off we went. We were soon at the cave and before long I was where I left off, rigging the main pitch. This is a really great section of cave and really feels 'in the thick of... read more

A leisurely Sunday trip, armed with a survey, with the aim of exploring various side passages, joining together some of the sections along the usual route near the entrance. This mostly involved going round in circles a lot in order to choose the passages we hadn't been down before, but it was good when we got to junctions that we recognised and so could piece it all together. The route: White arch series, followed by a few figure of 8s, then... read more

A brilliant route in a classic cave! From the opposite end of the Rowten pothole to the eyehole, a bolt on the top of a low rock leads to another one on a big boulder at the edge of a jumbled slope of boulders in the top of the gully. As you face the eyehole, abb down left past a mossy slab for a couple of metres. Stooping under the slab leads to the Rowten Cave water, but the way... read more

Mike's new favourite cave. We weren't feeling any motivation for a "proper" trip, as me and Caitlin were rather bruised from Trapdoor the previous day. Dunno what the boys' excuses were - utter lameness I suspect. Someone (Mandy?) suggested Skirwith to us. An ex-show cave? Sounds perfect! Took forever to find, even with a description; it's very well hidden unless you're looking from the right angle. Almost certainly spent more time combing the field in the rain than we did underground. Fun... read more