Runscar Cave - 26th Apr 2009

Sunday April 26th 2009

Members present: Catherine Moody,  Chuck Holder,  Mark Sims

I can't actually remember much about this cave. It starts up the top of the hill by a limestone scar, next to what Chuck described as "a boulder choke adventure playground" (it was quite fun I have to agree!)

You can do the whole thing as one big (well no not really big at all..) through-trip, coming into daylight at various points which makes it quite fun. We made it through pretty speedily, there wasn’t too much crawling as far as I remember, I think it was quite stompy.

A short cave, but fun. It exits right next to Thistle 3, meaning you could join the whole lot together if you wanted to make a longer trip for the more hardcore freshers.

After finishing, we collected the picnic bag from Thistle 2 entrance and headed back downhill towards the ice-cream van, where we randomly bumped into Steve G and co! We sat on the bridge and ate our ice-creams which were yummy. It felt like a proper summers day (although I don’t usually eat ice-creams in caving gear).

Another leisurely change and attempts at bike-rack traversing. It was still early so we had time for a quick pint and some more snacks in the Station Inn before catching the train.

Back in York at 8, we still had loads of food left so found a bench by the river to divvy out the rest. Mark claimed he wasn’t hungry but still managed to eat 2 teacakes and an apple…

All in all, a super-fun day. Hooray for train caving!! :)