Trips & Reports

Full report in Wales Log Book. We went to a dig we visited the year before. As the weather was nice we played at moving rocks, before deciding someone had spent alot of time backfilling the dig (which had been a decent size previously). So we stopped and refilled and headed back. Later found out that people had been digging in the sink for decades, but the limestone in the area is odd to say the least and impenetrable to cavers. An... read more

I've done Large Pot before but certainly don't remember it being quite such a struggle! Having consulted with Mark, it would appear that the first trip didn't go into the Red Herring series as I suspected but in fact did the route we did today, and went through Arcadia into Necropolis. On today's trip the entrance was vividly remembered but from Thornton Hall onwards it may as well have been an entirely new cave! As Andy G will attest to, don't... read more

How can Faff factor not be a 5? We were all meant to be caving! http://www.cefn-yr-erw.co.uk/index.htm

Daren on the first day of Wales. What a start! It was grim weather, cold, with rain in the air. And having not caved for a few months launching straight into Daren was going to be a 'hit the ground running' sort of beginning to the week. After getting changed Matt E started walking in one direction, but Gary, running on Ade's instuctions called him back for another direction. After a walk up the hill side and Gary incurring injury... read more

After the SRT training course we headed to TSG and stayed the night. Had lots of fun and caver shenanigans. Then we split into lots of different groups going in JH, Titan and Peak. My group were going to do some bolt climbing in the area past the "lake of 1000 banana skins". However we had a group of 5 people going down titan in front of us so we had to leave drill kit behind and not do some... read more

Could this trip have been any more faffy?!? High water levels plus incoming storm of doom means we choose to do rowten. 1) arrive at container a bit late... 2) attempt to leave container only to find out that I need a new car battery. Get jump start from Andy. 3) slow traffic. 4) EFFICIENT (no, really) breakfast at bernies see's us catching up time and leaving before midday. 5) get to parking for rowten to find seven cars, at least one going... read more

You forgot the bit about Mark checking the guy's legs out!

A superb and highly successful trip. With the exception of an aborted attempt six months back (water levels too high to pass Bell pitch), I haven't been down Ireby Fell since I was a fresher myself. This trip reminded me what an excellent and varied trip Ireby is. We arrived to find numerous cars parked at Masongill, and given the recent wet weather we expected Ireby to be rather packed. We were surprised to find ourselves to be... read more

After all my wussing around about caves with ropes in I totally loved this! Stringy, dry and spacious. Ace! I want to do it again.

Because we were being "efficient" on the ropes we'd packed, we rigged the main hang from a point about half way along the rift (instead of the very end). This was a nice change and provided extra interest by hanging a bit closer to the waterfall (still completely safe). There's also a couple of plate hangers in place for a nice y-hang part way down which would've broken the pitch up quite well (if i'd used them). If there's another group... read more

Really lovely walk-almost too pretty! :) and i even got a slight tan-in february-in the dales! crazyness. Walked to wretched rabbit, persuaded my dad to go fetch my bag from it, walked up to top sink, then all the way down to the resurgence with lots of stops to climb about/admire the prettyness :) and back for a cuppa!

Had a little potter around, not too sure where we went or even if it was the way we had intended, but it was quite fun anyway. The only bit of faff was not knowing the code to get in the hut when everyone else was out for a walk!

We didn't really have any trouble with navigation at all, it all kind of just fell into place nicely! We had a really good system going on tho, Simon with the description and the main decision making, then me with the maps and telling Simon when he's wrong :P To be fair, Simon led this trip really well. And I'm very proud of us all for doing it and not getting lost! It was very tiring! Didn't need any ropes like the... read more

We went in wretched rabbit and down spiral staircase route, which is mega pretty, to the main drain where we decided to go to easter grotto for some more prettyness, via a nasty flat out crawl and squeeze but totally worth it! :) then we looped back round and headed to stop pot, and then out of wretched rabbit. So a nice figure of 8 trip, about 5 hours in total plus a little bit more for me going in... read more

OMG FAFF!!!

Level 3 scummyness due to kev and chuck repeatedly farting and causing cave evacuations :s

I think you will find the person who caused us to evacuate from the final part of the cave was actually Laz! But great fun being allowed to roam free in a show cave. Meeting the owner was very cool too, looking forward to going back!

I'm sure mine was just an "audible alert" rather than some real "bad air" like Kevin's!! :p Was good fun, and especially good that you can be sitting down with a cup of tea within about 10 s of leaving the cave (as long as you run and there isn't a queue!). First time I've ever seen a double-glazed door on a cave entrance! 8)

Doesn't White Scar have a double glazed door leading to Battlefield Chamber? Tea and food reasonably priced etc...

Excellent fun! I liked that no one took us round it so we could be really silly. I disliked Kevins contributions to the trip :P Jacket potato, Licorice tea, Kevin's chips and Nikki's soup were all yummy.

I would like to point out that although I tried to follow Kevin's lead in the bad air production, I was unable to do so. This may have changed in the car on the way home. :)