Trips & Reports

It was in flood, very wet, we didn't get far, but we got soaked.

This is the best freshers trip ever!! high hardcore rating cos it was my 1st trip + i was shattered, also top scumminess for the giants windpipe! but fantastic fun!

Jimmy G took one look at the entrance & said there's no way I'm going down there. I wish I had said the same! Evil entrance which took an absolute age on the way out. Rest of the cave just seemed a tad cramped. Oh an beware the steep hill on the way up, you slip, you will roll to the bottom.

After walking to the cave Steve pointed at a small square hole in the ground and so I thought "off we go" and dived head first into the tight entrance crawl. After a few metres I was somewhat stuck, and so I backed up a few metres and tried again. Unfortunately my brain then did some weird "aargh it's tight what the hell are you doing get me out of here" thing and refused to allow my body to take... read more

James G's report -- Stream passage - lets go caving by train! Sitting in Wentworth bar on the evening of Thursday 9th May no one who owned a car or old enough to get a hire car wanted to go caving at the weekend. In the past I'd suggested going caving by train, but people had always pointed to the unfeasability of lugging all one's personal gear and caving equipment and rigging gear from the station to a cave, in addition... read more

By the time we (group 1) got there, there were already two other groups down the pot so we went off & did Jingling & left group 2 to do Rowten. Came back after Jingling & Sean somehow managed to get himself stuck upside down at a rebelay for about half an hour! Silly boy.

My first rigging trip. Whooohoooo!!!