Trips & Reports

It was a good laugh! Titan streamway was a bit dissapointing....a bit short, a few fun and reasonably tough (thankfully short!) free climbs. It then turns into a bit of a shrinker. Traverse over the event horizon was great though. GOing up the main pitch with the camera gear showed me I still have a bit of fitness training to do for berger!!!

Friday night at the TSG had been fairly messy, but Mark, Chad and I woke up feeling fairly alright. Unfortunately, this was not because of our sturdy constitutions and ability to hold our drink. We were still very much under the influence. Nevertheless, soon our ropes were packed and we'd persuaded Ade to drive us up Winnats Pass. At Rowter Farm we met a couple of guys from the Buttered Badgers, who are joining us in the summer for the Berger.... read more

After My last trip down Oxlow and in fact the last club trip down oxlow (Although some members have been down to see new oxlow!), We thought it needed a return journey! This Time we had the cave/mine to ourselves, just the three of us. Which Helped and also not having a large team helped as well. We managed to Rattle in and Rattle out in no time at all, with time to explore the bottom too! went to see... read more

Bye George is cool! To find it, go see if you can park at Leck Fell House (we got to change in the barn!), then walk down the hill through two gates. The first fairly flat field is the right one, and the shakehole is a fairly obvious double one on a direct diagonal out from the far left corner of the field, if you see what I mean. Negotiating the entrance pipe involves battling spiders. At the bottom some... read more

A quality trip. Some of the best helictites I've seen, and nicely protected by the scummy bits! :) No need for all the tape in here, which gives it that nice 'unexplored' feeling. I reckon the backbreaker is definitely worse on the way out, and should probably be called the leg-breaker! I found it easiest on my side & cross legged :) On the way out it was probably as wedged as I've ever been underground, but it all adds to... read more

Definitely worse if you are a bit wider/broader around the chest getting out of the Backbreaker - I thought my legs would be short enough to avoid any fancy leg bending techniques - just ended up be being in possession of a sore left thigh. I think it was ok for Toby on the way out as he could fit through the tight bit the rest of us couldn't :( Kudos for Walmsley though - wider and taller than... read more

Cracking cave! I concur with the previous reviewers. Spiders were worrisome. Quite sporting and physical, at least in the first part. Moist in places. Tendency to be small. Some of the loveliest pretties I've seen in Yorkshire. Knee pads are strongly advised. Short/bendy legs advantageous. I would like to do this as part of a through trip some time soon.

due to walk from NPC

We popped down Link and along to Echo Aven to check out the Wormway, which wasn\'t half as bad as I was expecting! Super easy navigation and not all of it is crawly - it should take max 15 minutes from the bottom of the 88ft pitch to Echo Aven. I suspect it\'s bloody awful with more water in it though. Having done this we zoomed back up Echo Aven and stuck our srt kits on the bottom of the... read more

Good report Toby, but the muddy wallows were noticeable! They're a massive puddle of very thin mud, which is quite deep, so when crawling goes above shoulder level for people with short arms!!!! I think the Canals are best done by staying low, grabbing on to the sides and flinging yourself around hoping you hit the floor occasionally- pretty fun :P 4 for faff because we got over half the way to BPF before Mark realised he'd forgotten his helmet !!... read more

Was this just a figment of our imagination? ;)

Who knows, it was all over very quickly! ;)