18/09/15 - 20/09/15 The Gritstone Club Hut (The Smithy) proved to be an excellent venue with easy roadside access and proximity to good crags and walks. Twelve members, Sainsbury and two guests attended for some or all of the meet and the hut was at capacity (Rob slept in his passion wagon). The attendance was …
Watergrove Sough
09/09/15 Took advantage of the dry weather to have a gander down Watergrove Sough as neither of us had yet been (too wet last time we tried), and fancied an easy warm up to get back into the swing of caving again. Water was nice and low (but cold, very very cold) and we headed …
Chatton Bunkhouse, Northumberland
15/05/15 - 17/05/15 Friday The weekends endeavors began 09:00 prompt with the purchasing of expedition supplies at the Chesterfield branch of Morrison's. After several hours of enduring the micro calculations and eccentric purchasing procrastinations of Frodo, all sundries were secured and the outward journey begun, proper. Having successfully reached the station of Alnmouth at 14:00, …
Waterways Swallet
15/03/15 As the meet was to be held Wetton way, the cavers decided that Waterway’s Swallet would be worth looking at. Being the deepest cave in Staffordshire at 125m, it’s vertical but climbable tortuous passages looked interesting. So did the entrance hole. Situated in a field not far from a stream, CotPD warns not to …
Bradwell Mystery Mine
21/02/15 Rob and I met up with Ed at the Throstle's Nest and drove up onto Bradwell moor in the dark. The aim was to find an old mine that one of Rob's colleagues had come across about 6 months before. It's located in one of the quarries up above Bradwell, and without too much …
Rowter Hole Extensions
06/01/15 Down to see the new stuff. Along the Ice Cream Trail, up Hourglass Aven, then over to Sunrise. Around 5.5 hours. Great trip! (Mike, Rob, Ed) Some pics if you follow title link.
Stoney Middleton Cave Crawl – By C. Dickens
Christmas Twothousandandfourteen It was the best of caving trips; it was the worst of caving trips. A damp morning greeted all those that travelled down dale on that Sunday morning to alight at Carlswark Cottage. It was a dark and foreboding morning, a morning that mirrored the apprehension of those that had arrived to see …
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Hope Shaft
20/12/14 Went to check out Hope Shaft with Rob and stash mince pies and beer for the following day’s Cave Crawl. Picked up all the ladders we could carry and made our slippery way up the hillside. Took us a while to connect all the ladder’s together and sort them out (because we’re useless with …
Level 7
07/12/14 Last little recky for the Cave Crawl. Headed into Level 7 with some old rope to rig up a handline and have a look around. Went in via the middle entrance which involves going down quite a tight rfit into a cartgate-like level. Lots and lots of stacked deads above you to avoid at …
Lay-by Pot
30/11/14 Another solo recky for the Christmas Cave Crawl. Not done Lay-by Pot before so thought it would be best to work out the route before we all pile down there in December. Lobbed the ladder down the shaft (10m works fine) and headed off along the passage at the bottom. A bit of hands …
Derbyshire Pennine Club 