Trips & Reports

I was nice and dry until the buggers picked me up and chucked me in the deep water at the end!

Damn you all for being too efficient with the cake ;)

Good, generally a nice cave with an interesting cake formation near the sump at the end (beats the wedding cake in OFD2), although this formation suffered some wear and tear which we were in there and may no longer be visible. There was also an unusual champagne waterfall which seems to be seasonal or something, it didn\'t flow for long while we were there. That sump was also cold man, no way was I getting in there sans wetsuit.

Think I was thrown into the sump more times than ideal ;)

Gott zone was also on this one.

An awesome trip! Bottomed Juniper Gulf and back to York by 6.30pm :)

The team arrived at the familiar sight of Fell Becks descent into the abyss of Gaping Gill. The rocks in the stream had been positioned to funnel water down the Rat Hole sink for the Winch Meet earlier in the year to keep the water out of the main shaft. The main shaft was not our target for today though, for this trip we needed to follow the shadows into an encounter with its more sinister sibling, Rat Hole. We... read more

On a Monday afternoon I was wandering idly round the lake, enjoying the warmth of the sun and the bickering of the geese, feeling pretty much at ease and at peace with the world. My musings were disturbed by my ringing phone, it was Matt, and I picked it up. ‘Hi Jonny do you fancy Rat Hole this weekend?’ My heart sank. ‘Well, err, I’m not too sure, I’d have to see what I’ve got on’ I said, buying time to get... read more

Was fairly amusing as I managed to miss basically all the hangers on the way down - good at my mid rope change overs now :P

3 for fun because although there was an awesome traverse (like super awesome!!) I felt a bit rubbish after the tensioned line thing went down about 1/2 a foot when I was on it and a rock few into my face :O

What a spectacular waterfall! A marvellous entrance pot, a bryologist\'s wonderland. Like Caitlin, I was also displeased when a large rock fell off the ceiling next to me. Toby and I turned back just before the 4th(?) pitch/freeclimb which also had a big pile of loose stones precariously balanced over it. I dropped the rope while de-rigging. megafail

This was a trip to explore some of the less visited parts of County. A short but fun streamway round trip, then off exploring the Trident maze. Instead of the usual way off Splash Chamber to the Trident streamway, we took the first passage on the left. This pops out at a big drop you can rig a rope down to drop you on a rock bridge. Once down we headed left, then turned off right to get to Crystal... read more

There are some points on the route where the Braemore description of the route to Cape kennedy can be difficult to follow although one the whole its pretty accurate. Firstly, it mentions the first passage on the right after the climb up from the col in fall pot as the start of the route to the cape from Stake pot, this wasnt too easy to find, the guide is right, but the start of the passage it describes seems to be... read more

Lieke had a shocker :P

LOL at our sillyness. We went on an evening trip to go and look at the gower pools, however nobody was quite sure of exactly where they were so we ended up going up in a little chamber with Toby trying to squeeze past a very large loose boulder and us thinking there had been some sort of mega rock movement. fail. However we found the gower pools on the way out and they were lovely. A baby oak tree... read more

Scum 5 because I fell in the sump up to my kneck (cavers have negative boyancy) which also led to change 4.

@ Jonny, fail

Change 5 because I was stupid enough not to ask for Matt\'s car keys and couldn\'t feel my fingers by the time he got back.