Trips & Reports

After a late evening Giants trip the night before, Team Slightly Competent woke up early ready for round two of caving- Eldens hole. We stayed the night at Victorias (Dylan’s mums) farm. We sleepily got up and had a lovely full English breakfast Courtesy of Hal (thank you, it was v yummy). Alfie of course, instead had some sad looking old crumpets from last year… very tragic. Over breakfast we discussed todays activities and were promised a tour of the farm... read more

Crab crab dash crab dash. Water boarded on ladder. Scary climb, fun tight hole side quest, crab. Confusion. Outside.

Dylan's lounge started getting light a bit before 4am. I woke up about the same time. The sofa was comfortable and the weighted blanket was a nice touch. I did some crunches and waited for the hangover to catch up with me. It did. A number of hours later a sleepy-looking but predictably bubbly Sarah emerged and watched the snowy view with me. Dylan was ready to go as soon as he walked in so we collected our shit and picked up... read more

Having camped in -4 conditions we were all feeling a little chilly. We queued for some tasty NCHECC breakfast while max tried to conscript some poor unwitting souls to come caving with us. There was significant faff while we took the tents down, but eventually we were on route to Rowten. With our Topo firmly secured in Ade’s boot (who was at the CHECC meeting), Sarah painted a new Topo onto a cave rescue flyer using some tipex. The irony... read more

“One of the more miserable caving experiences I’ve had” – Alfie. The car journey gave me enough time to moan, and for Elliot and I to decide that we didn’t care about seeing the Aquamole sump. Kingsdale was cold. By the time we reached Aquamole we were also pretty cold so, after spotting another groups rope, we came to a pretty final conclusion that we couldn’t be arsed to wait around at the bottom pitch. I messed around with some rope,... read more