Trips & Reports

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.

Great trip, hard work though as I was well out of practice! Had a great laugh, I\'ve slacked a lot recently, especially given that the walk to the cave was nearly enough for me....! Good to get back into it....the drive back was a bit of a killer though :)

What a cave! It definatly punches above its weight, on paper it isnt much but on the way out it shows its teeth a bit, especially with a large tackle sack. Probably one of the best SRT caves there is, its difficult to understand why this isnt done all the time as its great and brings together nearly everything involved in SRT and the last pitch is one of the classics.

A really good trip, actually the first time I\'d ever gone down Eldon - really good rigging, pull through was fun - Millers Chamber is awesome - was not expecting that. Just wished I could have enjoyed it a bit better, was feeling rather quesy :s

A really enjoyable trip to a bit of Easegill I\'d never seen before. I think it\'s fair to say that you couldn\'t tick of Easegill without having visited Little Lechuguilla. A great day that massively exceeded expectations!

Faff 3, and scum 3, as we went into this muddy watery flat out crawl when Mark suddenly forgot his left and right and took us that wrong way! Ewww!

Nothing wrong with the trip but I wasnt really in the mood, Maskill is a really good cave, I need to go back and bottom it at some point.

\"wasn\'t really in the mood\" means \"had a hangover\" :P

The quest for pumkin pot has been a long and arduous adventure, but finally I believe we have found it. The enterence is located a minute away from the car, so there is no issue finding this magnificent cave. As the saga of epicness begin, young admaril stelfox started to rig this leviathan, the descent was overwhelming, any mere mortal would of fainted due to the awe inspiring essence of the shaft, yet he bravely (and quite stoically) carried on. On... read more

Reaching the bottom I too had to give an almighty rope free call, waiting what seemed like minutes for the responce from the surface. I was quickly beckoned by Alex towards a waterfall at the far end of the first chamber. I saw the small squeeze and hurried to help clear out the debris. I thought to myself that these blocks we were moving seemed to have been put here on purpose so as to keep people out. This didn\'t stop... read more

As I caught up with the others in front i realized i was treading on something quite surreal, instead of mud or rock i was crunching up some white substance, at this point sam got rather excited, it seemed that we had not only stumbled upon a cave painting site but also a site of sacrifice and salvation, as this substance turned out to be Bones. Fortunately i did manage to find a rock to sit down on as... read more

Yet again I had fallen to mans greatest folly and had destroyed what I loved. Sadness fell but soon altered, as the stark realization reared its ugly head, I had destroyed the only exit, so onwards we had to go. Were we mad to follow alastairs ethereal Premonitions? who knows, yet somewhere deep in my being I trusted him so onwards we went. The chamber was vast, the little light we had left barely scraped the surface of the all consuming... read more