Trips & Reports

A fairly easy and not too inspiring day out, but a nice cave to tick off your Mendip wish list. Entrance is locked concrete shaft in deep shakehole in farmers field, ask permission and for the key at the farm (very nice people). Entrance drops down a few easy short pitches and from there its more or less horizonal all the way, a combination of rift, trickling stream passage, a few climbs but nothing too spectacular or pretty.... read more

This was hardwork! I agree with the description of this being a 'foreboding place'. Thank goodness we managed to find the way around the round trip otherwise it would have been a lot of effort and not much success!

We split into a girly and smelly boy trip at the entrance, its not often we get girly trips!:) A lot wetter than when we were last there-makes finding the route to waterfall chamber a bit easier! lots of fun waterfall climbs where you couldnt avoid getting a face full of waterfall! Caught the boys up at the ladder and proceeded down towads the sump. Unfortunately marianna had got very cold by this point due to lack of neofleece and... read more

A supurb and very unusual cave. We've heard so much about this cave during our work on the Moors but never had a chance to visit it to the end. Some interesting flooded passage and cross-rifts (with very little air space!) lead to an amazing stream passage. The cave even includes a fun zero airspace duck! At the end is The Font which is a large deep pool with water welling up from below. We spent some time digging beyond... read more

Great to finally get round to doing Bogg Hall. After a lovely sunny change outside Richards house we took a short walk to the actual resurgence entrance to wet our wetsuits. The entrance is a low archway bellowing water out. Upstream the River Dove was completely dry. The low archway goes in for a couple of metres before walls are reached and the floor lowers into the sumped passage (approximately 10-15m) into Bogg Hall. Not... read more

The entrance series is tight!

Like what Matt says, excellent trip. The entrance series is a lot tighter than I thought it would be, up there with Large Pot in terms of getting-stuckedness. Going through head first is worse, I think. First pitch was also pretty jammed, oh the benefits of being little! Just as the guide-book says, the final two pitches have loose stuff, all of which would fall pretty much in the line of the rigging, and the rubble pile at the bottom is... read more

This wasn't just Carlswark, oh no, it was bigger. And Better. Caves done: Bosson Hole (through trip) Mine Level No.2 (three level, entered bottom) Keyhole Cave (through trip) Mine Level No.3 (short and sweet) Mine Level No.10 (under Ivy Green, big chamber, could try to climb up rift) Mine Level No.4 (really quite big, good fun) Carlswark Gin Carlswark Resurgence (very, very muddy) More to come...

This was the first caving trip for the mini! A Mini Adventure :p

Bit of a short sunday trip due to lack of enthusiasm! My dad's been going on about this cave for years so its good to finally have done (some of) it. Short entrance pitch by the dry riverbed (ladder would have been better) then some crawling through muddy pools til it widens up a bit into a largeish bouldery passage, a fixed rope climb down a muddy bit (photographic evidence that the ropes have been there for at least 30... read more

A fantastic trip! Thank you very much to our guides and winchers :) and to lauren for organising it! Very efficient start as we had to be there at 9.30 (almost too efficient due to andy g putting the kettle on at half 6!), and a lovely sunny day. They had put the winch up when we arrived, so after some peering down the hole we nominated gary's car to go first and test it :) they went off to change... read more

I think Nikki has summed up most of it but I'll write some more because I'm bored! :) We arrived at the entrance which is right nice and close to the side of the road to find that the entrance scaffold had already been erected. All we knew was that the entrance was somewhere up the top of a hill and that there would be cars parked nearby. Without the cars, it would have been a right pain to find because... read more

Really efficient, quick trip. Prettier than i remember. Lots of stomping along in huge passages until stop pot, where we had tea and cheese strings and very broken crisps :) then wiggly wretched rabbit and out. Much fun. I like tea in caves.

Scummyness levels high due to the human poo by the first pitch :s apart from that its not scummy at all! Really fun little trip-ideal as a sunday trip. A bit of wandering round at the beginning before we found the way on (forgot the description), then a couple of little pitches with some crawling and passage between, then you get to the streamway which is made up of really pretty cascades. Had a little wander upstream too, and a nice... read more

We wandered up to the cave before getting changed into our caving gear and it was really easy to find. We found a few other caves that were in Northern Caves 3 on the way too and took photos of them for our ongoing Easegill Entrances Photo Collection. The poo in the cave was a bit gross (some humans really disgust me!), but aside from that the cave was fun and easy (well it would have been if I hadn't... read more

Muddy.

Overated ;-)

Well, it was good until the accident. Shame we're not going to be able to go back there again... :(

... joke :) It was of course awesome, and totally lives up to its reputation as the best decorated cave anywhere in the UK. The Hall of the Thirty is unique and much of the rest of cave outshines any formations in other caves both in quality and quantity. Pity about the crappy entrance series.

As Richard said, this was a tremendous trip. Pete the Warden was quite correct when he said we'd "know we'd been caving" when we finished! Anyway, with plenty of time on our hands we arrived at the car park where we were to meet Pete the Warden (from hereon know as PTW) and promptly scoffed ice creams which were being flogged by a suspect looking Italian guy in a less than convincing ice cream van. That done, faff ensued. PTW was late,... read more

I think Andy has summed the trip up really well so I won't repeat too much of what he's said. Basically though an ace-amazing-fantastic-fun-pretty trip! I loved it and it made me sad to have to leave. There was far too much to look at, you just didn't know where to look! I have never seen such fantsatically pretty formations. I hope it doesn't ruin my enjoyment of other supposedly pretty formations in the future! Jumping over the beautiful crystal formations... read more

Otter hole is fantastic. Pretty walk through woodland by the wye to get to it, then the first part is very very muddy and a bit tight and awkward in places (more of a problem on the way back when its slightly uphill), then after about half an hour you reach the sump. Lots of wierd booming and slurping noises as you get nearer, then sounds like a drain emptying. We sat for about 20 mins as it opened up,... read more