Trips & Reports 2012
Catherine wrote...
Mike's new favourite cave. We weren't feeling any motivation for a "proper" trip, as me and Caitlin were rather bruised from Trapdoor the previous day. Dunno what the boys' excuses were - utter lameness I suspect. Someone (Mandy?) suggested Skirwith to us. An ex-show cave? Sounds perfect! Took forever to find, even with a description; it's very well hidden unless you're looking from the right angle. Almost certainly spent more time combing the field in the rain than we did underground. Fun... read more
Catherine wrote...
The important thing to note from this trip is that, although the Black Book puts the estimated trip time at approx 2 h longer than that for Boggarts, we were back at the car and changed before the other group re-appeared. Efficiency in motion. Us, competitive? Nah ;) (I think to be fair think this was mostly due to Jeff and Mandy's speedy rigging/de-rigging though) Cracking trip :)
Mark wrote...
It's possibly got something to do with me throwing my helmet down one of the Boggarts pitches, and Andy trying to upstage me by doing likewise with his whole SRT kit down a pitch we didn't even want to go down... ;)
Catherine wrote...
Excuses excuses :p
Chad wrote...
OK.
Adam wrote...
Super awesome end to Christmas meal. Scum of 3 due to the massive waterfall which Chad assures me isn't usually there! All round awesome trip though!
Marion wrote...
Brown Hill keeps its reputation! After a brew at the NPC we proceeded to stand in the snow for half an hour or so, trying to work up the enthusiasm to get changed. Evan had forgotten his undersuit and turned down Chad's so he was changed pretty quickly and waiting for the rest of us to faff around with gear. A LONG walk up the hill, found us in the wrong field and we wandered back to find some CNCC... read more
Jonathan wrote...
Florby FlimP, in a blimP.
Chad wrote...
Florby FlimP, in the BlimP.
Adam wrote...
So my second trip to Marble Steps! A little unexpected as we were originally going for Ireby. After a fairly faff free container stop in the morning and hangover curing breakfast at Bernies it was off to the cave. Faffing soon began when we arrived to find one group was already in the system and another were fully changed and ready to go. Despite a leisurely change, the other group set off about 2 mins before us! When we got... read more
Marion wrote...
After a faffy start (rigging from the wrong hanger and not having sufficient rope for the first pitch...) I got in a good bit of rigging practice. Slight moment at the top of the bottom pitch where I was sure I'd done something wrong, but it was all fine in the end. We had a quick explore down as far as the duck and were out in quick time with Louise doing some speedy de-rigging. All in all a very... read more
