Trips & Reports

Excellent freshers trip, and relatively faff-free considering the number of people (in fact the majority of faff coming from a certain experienced member lol!). We divided into 5-6 teams and staggered ourselves by 5 minutes each, which avoided the problems of people backing up out of long churn. Nobody got stuck in the cheese press, and nobody needed carrying out, so pretty successful. Most people were even persuaded to do Wilsons Cave afterwards (hence the grade II... read more

Also, no takeaway related injuries either!

TEAM LIDL'S FIRST ADVENTURE!!!!! Loads of fun, even got to do "toilet cave" (Andy V, figured out which one it was yet?) and the wetsuits rocked in all that water!! EDIT: Turns out that "Toilet Cave" was infact Borrin's Moor... but we didn't go the right way (in and out) we just went iiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnn...

Quite a varied and interesting cave and a fairly efficient trip. Did get a bit tired tho. Oh and there was a mean man who had pink ropes and was wearing boxers over his wetsuit like some kind of superhero. Trip complete with late night BBQ mmmmmm

High faff due to it being organised whilst slightly drunk, followed by late getting up, unexpected rainfall, everyone starving, forgetting to turn the hob off, forgetting gear, the trip taking much longer than expected, and sleepiness on the drive home! Other than that, twas quite fun. A very interesting cave :) Plus bats!

I really enjoyed this trip. I was impressed by 'the ninety' route. The pitches were spectacular and far longer than I imagined. I would love to do the exchange with the intestines. For the record- It had been raining loads on the day before, on the drive over and as we were going down the cave, yet the ninety was bone dry.

Pretty PRETTY PRETTY pretty PRETTY pretty! this is a very pretty cave! pretty things everywhere! the angels wing and the really wiggly curtain were the best. oh and the "lost contact lens mountain" :) Quite a short trip (unless you spend hours taking photos) and easy, mostly strolling with occasional squeezing/avoiding standing on pretty things. We have "exceptional conservatinoal skills" apparently :) and so will easily get this and hopefully others again. nice guides too. AND we had icecream on the way... read more

A superb trip. And a REALLY hot day. Locating where to park was difficult, as the location on the maps is misleading. Park in an obvious lay-by, in the village at the top of the hill, next to an apple tree orchard, and opposite farm houses. The entrance is down to the right, and is signposted! A sharp, and sometimes awkward rift leads downwards from the bottom of the entrance pitch, doubling back on oneself to the... read more

This trip didn't happen on this date. Think it was the 19th like the Bull Pot/Yordas trip. Part 2 of cow day!

COW DAY After a very faffy day where Kevin bought a tent and some new windscreen wipers for Lauren, we decided to drive out to the Dales and camp. Once in the Dales we tried to camp at the Hill Inn, but they were being facists who insisted it was just for Camping and Caravan Club members and didn't seem to want our money. Instead we went to the Station Inn who were happy to let us camp out back. We ate... read more

I really enjoyed this cave, much fun was had! Lots and lots of faff though although that did provide lots of fun! We all bought wetsuits from Lidl in Sheffield for £25, moseyed around until we found a cafe that did breakfast, and then found one which did a vegan breakfast! AMAZINGLY tasty. We got lost findingg the cave and Si befriended an old lady and her crazy dogs. The cave/mine was really interesting though, lots of fun squeezes! :) The air wasn't... read more

This was a pretty cool one! Was really odd looking, and the hand picked bits were quite something! Was fun to rig too, lots of choices of which way to go! Usually I hate crawling, but I actually secretly enjoyed it in this one!! Note: before asking random Geordies/Yorkshiremen to borrow their cunningly hidden spanner, check that you can't just turn the biggest bolts ever known to man with your hands! Especially if you're not even going down that way anyway! The wetsuit... read more

A nice quick trip down bar. Took Ally down, and he kindly derigged. Lots of water in the main chamber, and everything else was unsuprisingly dripping wet, considering the volume of water soaking its way through at the moment There was a large turd under a rock at the entrance. Nice!

Grossness cos of all the death! Dead sheep, dead rabbit, dead mouse (with a squashed head cos I sat on it) and on top of all that, piles and piles of maggots! Mmmmmmm. Still quite fun tho. And a good quote from random wessex/sussex (we werent sure which) guy "is york a good university?" hmmm. Simon took some photos that are on facebook I believe. I had fun rigging :)

We took the GrottoBlaster! it makes caving 10 times more fun! need a new tape though :) high faff rating due to the journey back..in a tow truck! :s

haha i like the use of "recce" in the description! this is a very small cave-don't bother unless you're very skinny (even ade didnt fit!). the pitch is quite short and spacious, into a chamber, then theres a short crawl to a blind pot, where you shimmy across a scaffold bar, then theres the first squeeze (non-tiny people remove srt kit here) which we did head first on left hand side-however it comes out high up, above a hole and... read more

I've never seen a waterfall in jingling before....

Yey, we found a new (yet to be named) cave at Kettlewell! After several hours digging, we'd excavated an impressive amount of rock and got down to real cave. Its currently only about 2m deep but it goes on. We gave up after it became apparent that we need somthing more industrial than a steel pole and a spade. The boulders got slowly larger until we gave up trying to lift them. We must return with some lifting gear!

YEY NEW CAVE!! Very little faff for me as i woke up at 20 past 10, found out there was a trip, and was out the house by 20 to 11! Cheese toasty rating for Old Granary in Patley bridge 4/5. Started digging the hole with the expectation of doing this for a bit, giving up then going to look at some mines, but then we found a draught and got very excited! After much digging and strange looks from walkers, and... read more

A return trip is a must. When abseiling down the mouse hole shaft the first deviation is easy to spot as a p-hanger to pull you away from the wall to which the y-hang is attached, about 25m down. The second deviation is about another 20m (not 10m as shown in the Braemor rigging guide). It is on the same side of the shaft as the first deviation, and will require much swinging around to reach. ... read more

Only joking, it wasn't that hardcore. Surprising how fast time flies when you are surveying.

Chuck, Kev, Imogen, and I were "Team Pub"! We tried the first boozer on the left (heading back towards the main road: can't remember its name). This pub was extremely crap: there was a sign in the door saying "no food today". It turned out that they also needed one saying "no beer today"! There was chuff-all beer (or even cider) going! We left in disgust and went to The Craven Heifer a bit further up the road. Very nice pub:... read more

As above with Laz's report, but we also enjoyed Inglesport lending us some climbing shoes, though they did ummmm and aaaah a bit about letting us use them outdoors and not on their wall. Not bad for two quid though. Also, I bolted.

Bolting was fun and definitely got some curious looks from people passing by but the day wouldn’t have been complete without the zip wire attempt…. which did end up being quite slow but next time can we have a bigger, faster and better one pleeeeease!

A fun cave with picturesque entrance. BPOTW is an open shaft a few hundred meters from Bull Pot farm surrounded by trees, bluebells and a mysterious edible plant. There are two ways in, a direct abseil with a rebelay over a ledge, of for those of the climbing variety a sneaky side route. In fact there is a sneaky side route allowing multiple ways down this short but ridiculously expansive cave. We took the direct 4 pitch to the bottom version. when you reach the... read more

I nipped down the chimney climby entrance (25 m rope is a perfect length for this) and sat in the sun whilst Laura rigged the open shaft and Imogen and Britt followed. Chuck and Peter nipped down the chimney. During my wait, I went off and visited North Chamber (been in here before, not particularly exciting) and Cavern 32 which I'd not been in before. This is quite a big chamber and quite a surprise when you squeeze through the little... read more

Best bits: the bluebells, muddy crawl, and going weeeeeeeeeee on the descent down. Worst bit: having the taste of wild garlic in my mouth the rest of the day (thanks Chuck)

So we had a bit of trouble finding it, but nothing too drastic. Just didn't really match the description!! First few metres i thought i would regret agreeing to this cave, but i suppose once you get used to moving at a mere few inches an hour (ok slight exaggeration but you know what i mean) then it gets more enjoyable!! Somehow missed a pitch, and the 30m pitch was reached after some more fun squeezes and an... read more

So, the entrance isn't where Selected Caves said it is. Walk up the path with Ingleborough infront of you until you reach a kind of drainage line going through the path. Directly to the left at right angles to the path it looks like a track goes off, ignore it. The path to the cave is not actually that worn and you want to walk diagonally left, slightly away from Ingleborough top. You reach an area where there are two... read more

The walk up in the sunshine was gorgeous, although a little hot. The cave itself was definitely a challenge :s but team spirit and randomly made up songs helped:p. Definitely not for the claustrophobic as at some points it was too tight to turn your head around with your helmet on (although I soon realised taking it of was a bad idea as you had the challenge of finding space to put it back on again!) Glad we turned back when... read more

corkys was really good so fun rating of 4 or 5 for that bit, lit up gaping gill was amazing so 5 for that... we were going to go out a new entrance called Marilyns which involved doing Henslers crawl (we only had a survey and hadnt read about it since we only decided to do it at the top of the winch meet).. ...then we went into a very long very flat out crawl over gravel and puddles which we... read more

Went down Corky's, which is quite small but enjoyable going down and without tackle sacks. I can imagine coming back up with tackle sacks would be very tiring. As it was the winch meet GG main chamber was lit up with massive flood lights, which added some novelty, though I've already seen GG main chamber about a dozen times before. We then tried to go along the original Hensler's crawl from GG main chamber to reach Henslers, and from there to Disappointment.... read more