Trips & Reports

Laid-back Caving I really enjoyed this trip because we didn't rush anything. I gave this one 4 krabs faffage due to our incredibly slow changing/sunbathing/looking at dinosaurs. This trip was even more relaxing because Kevin and I let Charlie and Matt lead the trip.

In case you weren't aware, Dan is a Showcave which requires a leader to take you around (Unless you want to pay a fiver and stick to concrete paths). Sitting in the cottage on a Wednesday night enjoying a quiet beer was interrupted by a knock at the door. A random caver who appeared to want a cup of tea dropped by. Her name was Helen and she claimed to be a Dan leader! Names were drawn from a hat... read more

A superb caving trip! After the showcave bit, a short (50m) swim brings you back to dry land, and some stompy bouldery passages eventually brings you to the long crawl. Prior to that we were lucky enough to see a waterfall from the roof, which only flows every couple of hours or so depending on the weather (the flow is due to an overflow valve of some sort on the surface somewhere). The long crawl isn't too bad, took only a... read more

This was my second crack at the round trip. I was expecting it to take 6 hours but it turned out to take 7 1/2. Getting changed should have scored 5 krabs but I lowered it to 4 because we had DR Jones by aqua blasting out across tthe valley. The first half of the cave was rather uneventful. I was staggered at how small and unimpressive megadrive was compared to what I had remembered. Still, caving with your oversuit... read more

My welly got sucked off :(

Third time I\'ve looked up this report in the last few months for various reasons, and though I\'m sure we should have finished writing it up properly, I\'m sticking the jist of it here. ---------- Once upon a time there was a girl called Debbie, a caveman called Kevin, an odd chap with a strange NZ accent and a cuddly munchkin with a car of Mary Poppins proportions. They set about the greatest task they had ever undertaken. Before Dom’s pasta. 8p... read more

A very long day caving! I was really excited about the trip, as this was my third year at Wales and I had never done the OFD system. After a quick change we went down to Cwm-Dwr entrance and made our way inside. Navigation was fine, and we made it through the crawl and to the boulder choke quickly. We then spent the best part of an hour at the boulder choke, attempting to find a way through, and the... read more

I'm sooooo sorry!!!! But at least I can now do Cwn Dwr to the end of the stremaway with my eyes closed!!

Bastard of a walk up to this cave, and I do mean up... 200 metres of bloody up. Took a while to find it, due to ignoring the directions saying that the cave is in a large shakehole. We spent a while checking every scrotty little depression we could find. The shakehole is easily 15 metres across! First thing to do upon arriving: repack the first tacklesack cos I'd put the first rope at the bottom. :s More rigging practice for... read more

The change gets a very high grade due to the fact it was raining and the layby venue necessitated changing in front of an elderly couple who had pulled over for a sandwich and another bloke also enjoying a peaceful sandwich. Pretty sure we could have been arrested, thus the grade reflects the risk factor. The cave wasn't too hard to find, there was a certain amount of checking every hole (having been told it was a grassy shakehole there... read more

I loved this trip far to much... we're thinking of running off to Gretna Green together. My plan to take Jimothy (my unicycle) with me was vetoed by the others, due to one of them having to drag it down the cave since I would be rigging. Tackle sacks were packed, slings retied, and the journey to Ingleton made, where huge breakfasts were had by all, and I managed to get free light hire from Steve. Off to the cave. The walk... read more

I think this was a brilliant trip! Lots of fun and not too much faff surprisingly! Our route down was very quick and not too difficult, making good time to the wonderful traverse that is the battleaxe - i have to say it certainly got my heart pumping!! And then valhalla was really cool. Wandered downstream for a bit and turned round at the dead frog and thick foam, and then journeyed our way back out. Met... read more

A surprisingly efficient trip! Juniper Gulf is best found by following the path from where you park, through gate and then bearing left up the vague path up the slope. This path bears right at the top towards a 'no vehicles' sign (as if that were REALLY necessary!). Continue left along the path, which after a considerable walk, reaches a wall on the left hand side, followed soon by a stile. Climb over and head forwards bearing left... read more

I was on this trip, even though photographic evidence may show otherwise! :( But throroughly enjoyed it! Thank God for Charlie chatting me through minor headache towards the end! That still didn't dampen the spirits!

Such a good trip!! Bit of a discussion over which entrance was the cave but found it eventually (after both chuck and kevin disappearing from earshot thus me thinking some kind of blair witch reenactment was going on). Fun entrance with lots of twists and turns which i liked although the tackle sacks of joy making it a little bit more challenging!! Some good rigging from chuck involving a wonderfully fun swing, and then a traverse which increased... read more

Another trip to Leck Fell, another chance for me to get my shoes soaked in the local bog. Jumped out of the car and immeadiately fell on my arse in the mud, much to everyone else's amusement. Took us a while to find the caves, mostly due to misidentifying Rumbling Pot (I think) as Death's Head. They look amazingly similar. Matt was rigging for our group, and there was much swearing at the pitch head while he negotiated... read more

Chris' report is pretty accurate, though I wouldn't go as far to say that the connection was the muddiest thing I've seen! It's muddier than and very muddy thing though, and the connecting crawl is interesting. Not tight, but a bit damp which was unexpected. The entrance is best tackled with a simple/stop, as the rack wedges the rope against the rock creating excessive friction. A ladder for assistance back up it might be worth considering on future... read more

Some fat git got stuck :p

Booyah! Notts Pot... had a bit of a job finding the cave, but that's because we followed the wrong ruined wall. There are too many apparently. Quickly progressed to the main chamber, where we found team one, who had left Bernies an hour afore us and hadn't got lost finding the cave, still rigging the first pitch of Central route. Stuck around and chatted to Josh and Debbie for a while, then Team Incontinence decided to make our way to... read more

Team beautiful was dom's team: us people who took ages as we actually did the route were team green!

A long days caving! After faffage at the top, and all three teams catching up with eachother, Dom made and excellent job at rigging Adamsons/Birthday Pot. We arrived at the streamways at the same time as Twilight team, and only just behind Centre team, who were ahead rigging the lower streamway. Twilight team turned back, which was a good job as there was little room down the lower streamway. My team followed the rigging team down the traverse to the... read more

The plan was that team 1 would go first and rig, followed an hour later by team 2, who would no doubt catch us up soon enough, but at least they would have an hour more waiting in Bernies and an hour less waiting around getting cold in the cave. We (team 1) set off, walked up Ingleborough, and after a relatively short amount of time wandering about in light fog, wind and drizzle stumbled across the entrance. However, we knew... read more

A day spent wandering around in the fog, finding the cave, wandering around in the fog for a lot more, finding the cave, caving, wandering around in the fog eveb further, before finally going home! It is surprisingly difficult to walk in a straight line. ridiculously so in fact. The first few tries were alright, as if we couldnt find the cave, we somehow managed to return to the path and try again. However, when the path... read more

Ummmmmm! Well i think i now know why the compass was invented and i am now very glad that the moor on the side of inglebourgh is not the size of dartmoor or there would be 5 very lost cavers!!!! The main (only) success of the trip was drawing attention to some possible flaws in our cave finding action plan. I think i may have spent a bit too much of the trip moaning so i apologise to my fellow team members, i... read more

Hi, I am not sure why Hernell Moss is on the title of this trip, I thought it was a planned walk on the moor? Either way as planned I headed upto the moor with the first party and decided that if we walked in a straight line we would run out of moor quite quickly, so therefore walking in circles would extend our foggy boggy fun! After walking for a few hours we found that a bit of the hill was missing,... read more