Climbing, Caving & Hill-Walking
01/05/22 First trip with Sampo. After explaining the ins and outs and the best way of negotiating the squeeze/pitchhead, he shuffled on down and got to the chamber easily, which is very good news. The more people that can reach the chamber the better, as there’ll hopefully be a lot of hauling to be done …
18/04/22 First MB trip with Sam and first in the warmth of the Spring sun! Instead of being unpleasantly cold, the walk up was now unpleasantly sweaty. We kitted up at the entrance and I shuffled down to the initial vertical squeeze above the pitchhead. The aim was to lower the floor here to make …
18/03/22 - 20/03/22 Ivy Cottage is owned by the Craven Potholing Club and had been booked with the obvious intent of a big Yorkshire caving trip for the fitter members of the club (and the President) while allowing some excellent opportunities to walk for those who felt their caving days were behind them (Easters) and …
06/02/22 Sunday afternoon trip just the two of us again. Rob after just over an hour’s sleep following a wet Saturday nightshift on the railway. Super strong wind/gusts and horizontal rain as we were heading through Castleton and up through Winnats. Luckily caught a gap in the torrential rain as we quickly got changed. I’d …
20/02/22 The original circuit of Barber Booth, Kinder Reservoir, Downfall and return over Kinder was vetoed after various cancellations and checking the weather forecast – hence a major change to a circuit from Hope. This consisted of Hope, field paths to Brough, then Bradwell, Bagshawe Cavern and then a path across the fields to the …
20/02/22 The Cavers walked up to White Rake, Eyam, an old dig of theirs inherited from the late John Beck. It was a number of years since their last visit, and it was their intention to clear it of detritus and metal constructions. A final visit was decided upon, after they arrived back at the …
23/01/22 Back for a proper ferret about at the bottom this time. After paying Roy the farmer, we found the 2 Oxlow laybys completely rammed so had to park round at the Eldon Quarry track, which makes a far more pleasant changing area. We came armed with some proddy tools and a few rubble bags …
16/01/22 Rob and I had been meaning to have a look down Mountbatten Pot for a few years now and when we realised there’d only be the two of us caving, it seemed like a good opportunity. It’s located on the same hill about 300m south of Nettle Pot and we spent some time wandering …
19/12/21 The Christmas meet was, in keeping with the odd times in which we live, somewhat disrupted by Covid. Various members rang – more or less sheepishly - to say that wives, partners and multigenerational Christmases meant they felt they could not attend as they might put Christmas at risk. This led to an enormous …
19/11/21 - 21/11/21 By Phil: Bob G and Phil, traversed the Carnedds with Jason and David A. David left on Carnedds Dafydd and walked back to the hotel. Jason continued with Bob and Phil to Llewelyn and then descended to Llyn Ogwen. Rain set in, but Crowson allegedly insisted on going up Tryfan. Jason departed. …
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