Trips & Reports

Quite a fine little cave - would be good for a quick sunday afternoon jaunt. The deviation on the first pitch required a bit of monkey acrobatics to get to (unless you wanted to get soaked by the waterfall) and the rope position looked a little precarious. Perhaps there was a better place to put it that we didn't spot? The flooded shaft at the bottom was a bit Eerie Indiana - I think Ade was scared!

Scared indeed, that sump was well spooky!

Have to say, we weren't a fan of this cave! There were a couple of interesting sections and big chambers, but other than that it seemed to be mostly wet boulder choke after wet boulder choke. Very soggy by the end. Not that we got to the end... we got to a chamber where the way on appeared to be down a narrow slit in the floor, leading to what looked like a flat out crawl. With not that long... read more

Met at the container with a couple of ideas, expecting horrendous weather wherever we were to go, preferring the Peaks due to (more) road works in the Ingleton area and a slightly better forecast. Given a choice of SRT or little SRT, SRT won out and so we tried to pack 4 people’s gear and about 150m rope into my little car. After some cajoling and the removal of the parcel shelf we were away. We got to the café... read more

A good trip. After walking round Bakewell for a while we headed over to Monyash and found the mines. I threw a rope down Hillocks (thankfully not before tying one end of it to the surface) and then walked over to Knotlow. Lieke had rigged the Y hand and we were ready to go. I clipped in and gingerly climbed below the pitch-head, taking care where I put my feet but in truth its all pretty well shored up. Looking... read more

We chose Flood because water levels were up and the forecasts weren’t brilliant for the weekend. Despite this the weather was fine for the drive out to the Dales and the walk up the hill - despite seeming to last forever – was fine until we reached the show-cave when it started spitting. This stopped soon enough but by the time I was kitting up at the entrance the rain was back again and threatening to get worse. Still, this... read more

Steven spotted this in CotPD and so we went for a poke around in Matlock Bath, having not really caved that way before. We parked by a hotel and the wandered around a bit looking for a public footpath, once located we jumped through a gap in the wall and found the entrance with relative ease. Almost immediately my light died. Grrr. So I climbed in using Toby's backup backup light, feeling like a real novice. The lack of light made... read more

So, turns out Peak District caving isn’t as bad as Mark would have us all believe :P The start of the cave is stupidly loose, but that’s not really a problem as any rocks you knock gain much momentum before they hit the person in front. There’s some crawling, and slotting yourself down slots (down some mucky cord thing), then across a traversy thing – tad bit exposed, but it is the right way on. All pretty easy, following your... read more

New cave for us all, it was good fun. Was a bit difficult to interpret the description but we had a good poke around all the passages. Lots to look at, but quite a few deadends too. The entrance shaft is pretty cool. Would recommend it as a nice Sunday bimbly trip.

After driving and marching through the river on Masongill Lane we found the cave really easily. The “new” entrance in the guidebook was apparently off to the side, traversing a pit and heading into a crawl. We found this quickly and Adam started rigging across. Whilst this was happening I went for a play in the obvious large entrance opposite and ended up a few metres below Adam, but with no way on and the floor looking pretty collapsed. I... read more

Lovely mine! neck deep in water. (in places) Road from Penrith to Nenthead is brilliant, shame about the midges and stubbing my toe on a step!

The plan was to do rowten, aquamole and bull pot in a day to practice for the berger. Rowten was first, then aquamole then bull.

the polystrene was from some filiming in the 80/90's by peak rescue

Where did you find that out? I quite tempted to go back and drop the sketchy hole in the floor using a ladder... Don't want to bounce on a rope in there!

what type of filming was it? like rescue training video?

yer it was on a disscusion board, they where showing how peak cro did mine rescues

You Cheeky Boys!!! 10 caves in one day! Disgraceful, it should have just been Yordas Repeat :p

Too wet for that Al, too wet.

And you missed out Carlswalk! which would have been easier than yordas given your location. I'm Jealous i want 10 caves in a day.

No we didn't, we went to the sump! We started at the wrong end of the dale for Carlswark, we worked down towards Stoney from Furness Quarry. We actually did more than 10 but don't know the names of them all. Some of the mines were really sketchy! You'll have to just look forward to our next outing, Sam has the maps this time I think.

sump ah I see I can write trip reports on trips I have not been on :P

Chorped

Suppose this might be a flat ;) http://img.homes.posot.co.uk/pics/uk/2011/03/02/FlatApartment-Reading-2-Bedrooms-160451.jpg

gotta get to the bottom of the cave i see my friends crawling in the front passage traversing in the back passage gotta make my mind up which way do i take?