Trips & Reports

While doing Jean Pot the day before, I couldn’t stop thinking that the weather forecast for the Peak district was awful. It proved that way, with Chuck’s team already staying at the TSG, it was a 7am start at the container, which was not ideal for me because I was very tired due to washing my dirty caving gear at 1am that morning ready for Peak. Despite the heavy rain that greeted us that morning everyone was at the container... read more

After spending the night at the Chapel in readiness for Peak, we had a lovely lie-on on Sunday morning. Chuck got up at 8 to start on breakfast, and half an hour later appeared with tea in bed for the rest of us (he’s very well trained!) Looking at the weather outside we weren’t too optimistic; indeed, 8.45 saw Ann appear at the door to tell us that Peak was a no-go. My heart sank – that was the second... read more

COLD COLD COLD is the rating if you have a hole in your wellie and if its very wet. i will mention that if it was a little less wet the cave would have been very good but as it was. yuk! the only redeeming features of this cave are some of the fantastic formations near the start and whilst waiting for the ladder to be rigged- when your waiting around the point where the traverse line starts with the holes in... read more

Actually I\'d like to alter my change vote to a 3 based on the fact I forgot both a towel and a change of underwear! This was the first time I\'d done Giants and I was really looking forward to it. Unfortunately the water levels were very high so we weren’t able to complete the round trip. We all got soaked on the ladder on the way down (which we had to jump off, as it had to be rigged off... read more

All in all an interesting cave certainly the most interesting features I have yet seen in my limited experience and interesting to be in a dry cave with relativly few squeezes. The climb out of the cave was perhaps a tad tough for a weakling like me but still fantastic none the less. A trip I would certainly recomend.

What can i say other than i should know this end of the cave by now!

"Let us never speak of this nasty hole again" - Gover When Chad suggested this cave I didn't know what to think. I'd heard horror stories of it being tight and full of bad air. Previous reports on the website didn't sound that encouraging. Nevertheless it was a cave I hadn't done before and there is no point writing a cave off before you've had a look at it, right? Chad had already collected Tom, George and the gear before he picked... read more

A fantastic Peak district Pothole, one that we could easily do more often. The entrance was not as tight as I was lead to believe. I would love to go back soon and do some of the other stuff down there one day. The change was grim!

Hard = 3 due to injuries sustained on the Friday night from all the crazy games Scum = 3 due to the sheep at the bottom that Anna sat in!

A fun trip. Some 'mature' cavers came down behind us, and they were very interesting people to talk to. As they rigged off different p-hangers to us on the second pitch I had fun overtaking one of the guys going back up. There was a lot of water coming down the wet route which was really spectacular, and explained the nicely formed shaft. Unfortunately for me Marcus wanted to go though the duck, I remember being keen on doing this on... read more

I got changed inside the Landy so no rain for me :p This was my first trip to this part of the Easegill system and I was looking forward to a good old explore. We successfully found Gour Hall (ha ha Mark!) and then went back for a wander in the Pippikin streamway to find the bottom of the entrance series. A precarious looking drop into Leck Fell Lane made us change our minds about which route to take to Hall... read more

In terms of fun, the caving was 5, but being stuck behind Leeds both going in and out of the cave was not fun at all. Ultimate Faff beyond any scale! There seem to be hundreds of people from Leeds in various groups going up and down Bar all day, and along with us had a permit, so we were a little screwed. I had thought about going down Small Mammal, but decided against it. The last Bar pot trip I... read more

Good trip. The day started off very faffy with a rather long trip to bernies on the way and various forgotten things and general sitting around! Finally headed out towards county to drop the others off, who by then had been overtaken by about 30 others doing various trips! We left the others to wait by county and headed on to wretched rabbit, just beating the masses to the entrance :-). Here we became super efficient and wooshed down the... read more

A day of firsts…. My first time doing this cave (Luke – “How have you never done Jingling before?!”) and hence first time rigging it. The swing to get into the rift was rather fun! Maz’s first SRT trip – she did very well, coping with the re-belays and slightly awkward pitch-heads. At the bottom while Laura, Maz and I free-climbed down to the final chamber, Toby did his first bit of rigging, aided by Luke teaching him lots... read more

I was warned that i was route finding when i arrived at the container and found the original giants hole trip was off (too much water) bugger must get to do some derbyshire/peaks caving soon! after 1 week inbetween trips i didn't think i would be able to forget the route and with a little encouragement from chuck and laura "we will hit you if you get lost" i was filled with confidence when this soon changed to "we will hit... read more

3 for faff due to being stuck behind some mendip cavers

bit tight at the start of the first pitch!!! But all in all a really good day out

Nemo, Jon and I had a spritely start after a well needed early night and began cooking porridge for the team that were heading down from York. The Chapel was a hive of activity as dozens of SUSS woke up, hoards of Chesterfield daytrippers arrived and all the TSG members who were down having a working weekend all converged. The tame keyholders had all disappeared and when there was a big push to get everyone from all the other clubs... read more

I suprised myself by joining this trip as the previous day, during my epic duel with Titan I'd promised myself I wouldnt be going underground the next day (it was a good trip just hard about a term's worth of hardness) but as Chad and the others arrived I found myself unable to resist and before I knew it I was smelling of PVC again and on my way to the entrance. There isnt much to add about the trip... read more

I still can't believe how high the cave ceiling was I can see why the passage was named surprising. Anyway Calm down Kevin you make it seem like I was eager.

Hehe. Steven definately was not eager at all times, especially when he saw my choice of pint afterwards. How did you describe it again?? It wasn't very nice.

What was it unicorn? I don't think I was harsh on it I just said Wags to Witches was nicer. And when wasn't I eager?

You made Wags to Witches sound much nicer, which it was :)

I absolutely love doing any trips in the Gaping Gill system, and this was no exception. Yeah it was raining when we were getting changed and everyone always moans about the long walk (which I actually always enjoy), but to see Gaping Gill with so much water was fantastic (even the water coming down South East Pot was a lot). There was even more water than a recent underground camp in the system that I was on, all the waterfall... read more

Mike Topham and Ian Jack also present. My dad's 60th birthday present trip! Super efficient day as we had to get back to York in time for Hobby's last night in town. In Bernies at 9.45 with a pre-order of yorkshire puddings through my mum (pre-ordering is the way forward) and on our way by 10.30. We saw the bar pot team just arriving-slackers! Got to bull pot farm and changed in the changing rooms as it was very rainy! Various... read more

Probably one of the wettest days in the Dales I have seen for some time! Giants Hole was very much off and Wretched Rabbit and Mistral were on! After a cold and wet walk across the fell, we found Easegill Beck in flood, although with the water a long way off reaching Wretched Rabbit entrance. We made quick progress to the head of the first of the climbs. This was rigged with a ladder, as two... read more

A trip description by Matt, he's underplaying the amount of time he spent at Eureka junction mesmerized by the water Matt sat there for ages, although i'm sure he must have been to Eureka junction many a time!!! Our Freshers, sorry guys, were excellent this is not an easy cave; but they all handled it with ease(gill) hehe. on the way up to stop pot some people climbed up to the side whereas i just squeezed up because i could... read more

A great any-weather first or second trip, providing people don't mind mud! Navigation was pretty easy just using surveys & descriptions from t'interweb. A bit of random direction-taking took us straight to the gate to the Ease Gill beck bacnk which was a bit interesting to cross...certainly more water than I've seen there before. Now they've changed the entrance and replaced the planks there was a bit of confusion as to which was the right hole, but after finding Link we... read more

"Gour Hall" aka Hall of the Mountain King ;)

Awesome trip! My first trip in the UK since Wales. After an efficient start in the morning, we sat off to the peaks. Chuck took the wrong exit in Sheffield, :) this resulted in an interesting route trough Sheffield, but we managed to find Hathersage quite quickly anyway. I had a a very nice breakfast in Hathersage, which required me to choose from 10 different ingredients! in my case lots of bacon and fried bread :) We set of to Giant's... read more

Turned out to be a very fun trip. The weather in the Dales was much worse than on Saturday, so Longchurn was called off. Instead we went about finding holes in the ground near The Station Inn. I was pleasantly surprised by the length of the active streamways that we found. Everyone certainly got a good introduction to what cavings about. A very good and viable back up plan in the future.

Although disappointed by the fact we had to sack off Long churn (horizontal rain is bad news), we ventured up to the Station Inn at the Ribbleshead Viaduct to look at some smaller caves up there, on Chucks recommendation. Things were not looking good as we changed in strong wind and driving rain, but once into caving gear it calmed down and we headed over towards the caves. I have no idea which cave it was we ended... read more

excellent, these smaller trips seem to be the ones that are overlooked as good trips but these caves were streamy with some crawling through water some climbing, overall a good introduction to the varying skills used in caving. by the way i love streamway caves, i could do these all day and not get bored