Trips & Reports

On a fine September morning, as the sun was just beginning to rise over the Vale of York and the blurry shadows formed by the trees were rapidly shortening, four of the nation's greatest adventurers were gathering for a quest that would push not only their limits, but the limits of what was humanly possible. They would boldly go where no man had ever gone before. This is not their story. ... read more

Things I have learned: 1. Keep High! 2. The T-Rift thing has a slightly bigger width at the top than the size of my waist/hips making point 1 very tricky.

Kevin wins this time, no need to return. I didn't have a hangover. Mwahahahaha

I have well and truly done this cave. Bottoming Brown Hill Pot next. Not sure what Nemo was complaining about - the T-rift was well easy :-)

scum could have been level two at times but mainly down to sweat and personal scummyness (level 5- due to no shower the night before). the prettiest cave i have seen in the uk and all in a very short section, well worth a visit, but be warned hard level of two due to contortions to avoid breaking formations.

fantastic, but by accident i made laura go through more water than she needed to, woops and that meant i had to do the same horrid bit, tryed to get out of it but i got forced to do it, ewww. got as far as sump one then turned around and went out, lovely cave with the biggest curtains in the uk, thank you YUCPC and BEC (they get everywhere don't you know).

Note, whilst the canyoning went uber smoothly, the "5" for faff is due to: 1) Not knowing where we were going. 2) Not knowing whether any of the 'canyons' from the dodgy translation were doable. 3) Not knowing how much gear to take 4) Not knowing whether any gear was needed 5) Driving up a track and grounding the 'black' car numerous times only to decide not to do that canyon. 6) Not taking a watch 7) setting a callout but not changing it following 2hrs of... read more

The canyon we did was pretty good in the end (except for the start which is little more than a stream).

After not getting down this one a few days earlier due to lack of sleep I was fired up for this return to a cave I had passionately wanted to get to the bottom of since learning that we would be going to Slovenia. The Gradisnica entrance pitch is absolutely huge. The rock bridge that crosses the shaft around twenty five meters from the floor, covered in moss and fern, partly obscures the bottom of the pitch yet even this... read more