Trips & Reports

Typical CHECC faff, where both the team and cave changed several times through the day... After recruiting some lovely folk from Exeter (after being messed around something chronic by one of the other clubs), we headed off to Bull Pot Farm for a little jaunt round Wretched Rabbit, though got to the roman road to find it pretty hairy to say the least - the gritters clearly hadn\'t made it this far. We didnt even attempt to get up the hill... read more

Sweet Trip. Our original plan had been for Marble Steps, but a group of 9 already in the cave put an end to that plan. Instead we reshuffled ropes and headed across the frozen ground for Ireby. We had split into 2 teams, to allow Chad time to rig, reaching the cave at around 1pm. When we got to the first traverse we found 2 ropes already in place. Chad raced ahead rigging, got to maybe the second or third pitch... read more

Would have been a 5 for fun, but I had the worst hangover ever.

My best trip down aquamole so far, good team spirit and a fun day out made it very enjoyable. Once again, I loved the bottom pitch, a classic.

A classic adventure trip, one of the best!

Very nearly gained a faff 5 - only just missed out because we did actually get (part way) down Sell Gill - eventually! When we arrived the dry route already had 2 teams just about to descend, so we made the decision to walk up and do Calf Holes instead. After about 20 mins of walking, we met a cave rescue guy who asked where we were going and was shocked at my reply - apparently Calf Holes was 2... read more

For the people doing the wet route it was not as bad. We arrived at the cave quite quickly and after some confusion with other teams being down the dry route, we headed off down the wet route with me rigging. After some interesting swinging round corners and adam racing round a rock pillar :P we zoomed down. The whole rigging process was fun (even if i did winge and bitch alot :P). Overall it was effecient for us... read more

Hillarious

greatest team of cavers acompanyed by drink, cake and fireworks ... what could possibly go wrong

faff 4 for not actually finding everyone else and going back to drink lots of tea :)

County is definatly one of our better freshers\' tips, exciting streamways and waterfalls, fun little climbs and loads of potential to make it as long or short as desired, easilly laddered aswell. All the faff was, as usuall, on the surface.

Immense faff both before and after the trip due to separate car-related incidents. With Andy having destroyed his headlights and so needing to drive back to York before it got dark, I was left as the only one who knew my way round County, and hence became trip leader by default. After we finally got underway, things went pretty smoothly. Rigging took a bit of time, as I had never rigged a ladder before so was kind of making it up... read more

I can\'t believe this was my first trip down longchurn- it\'s an awesome cave!

A small cave (very small) just up from Long Churn. After doing Long Churn, and simply not having enough of caving, I send Toby off to look for Wilsons. He found it, so Gary let me and Adam go play underground with Toby. The entrance is pretty lame, I mean low. Crouching walking/crawling/nearly flat out in water for quite a way until the passage opens up a bit more (and saves neck ache). The water shallows to a small stream and there\'s... read more

Selside Cave is just over the wall from the entrance to Wilson\'s Cave and Diccan. It is pretty short but is a through trip. It goes from one field to another under the wall, so could be used as a way of avoiding climbing over the wall! ;-) The entrance nearest to Wilson\'s Cave has a low bedding plane going off in one direction which Marcus explored for a few metres before giving up. The opposite way is a low arch... read more

Same field as Selside Pot, next to the wall. We didn\'t head in due to a sheep in the entrance. We saw hoards of cavers heading over the horizon so went to say Hi, then went to search for our next cave in the next field up. It was the other end of Selside Cave... By the entrance was a bedding which Marcus went in, I went for the big spacious entrance that Laz had gone in and called \"alright\"... read more

Grotty Cave, Well, it had to be done didn\\\'t it? Marcus got furthest with all of us sticking our heads inside to at least some distance. Get it on the website... This cave also has potential apparently, with an easy dig face at the end.

After doing four other caves (count \'em!), someone had the good idea of going into Long Churn through November Hole for a bit more of a challenge. I was quite up for this: on at least three occasions, I\'ve had a look at the inlet from November Hole which is on the left about ten yards downstream from Dr Bannister\'s Handbasin. On each of these occasions, it has been a fresher trip (rarely been down there on any other occasion!) and... read more

The entrance is really well hidden behind nettles and tall grass/reed things. Looking out from inside is dead good, looking through a curtain of greenery!

Upper Wilsons Cave, After not finding Bunny Hole we spotted a dark space amongst some nettles and I decided to crawl in, not knowing what it was. Turning down the obvious large passage on the right the cave degenerated first into a canal and then into a wet crawl and then into a very wet flat out crawl. Ace! I could see daylight in two places and headed to the nearest. On the wall was what looked like a round... read more

Selside Pot Hoping over the wall next to the Long Churn Resurgence Entrance you get to a field with two caves. The first we visited is about 2/3rd of the way across the field in pretty much a straight line from Diccan. It\'s in a small shake hole and the entrance is pretty obvious. A clamber down reveals a small rift with some rusty threads on the right hand wall. Imo went down first and followed the rift in a straight... read more

Quaking pot to Gormanghast - “The longest day” A drunken, capitalized text message from Chad at Hidden Earth prompted the final organization of a trip which had been in the planning stages for some months. The trip began with a relatively relaxed start of 8am rope packing at the container, a somewhat quiet group busily prepared ropes and mulled over what was to come. Setting off at 8:40 we made good time to the dales, though we arrived to find bernie’s were... read more