28/11/16 Whilst the others were at Rob's Rift, I headed down Streaks top entrance on a solo trip to bring out an assortment of stuff we'd left down at Alex Aven last year. Items included: 1 x shovel, 20 x sandbags, 1 x garden hoe, 1 x bucket, 2 x drag trays, 4 x krabs, …
Rob’s Rift
28/11/16 Rob was wandering round Stoney in April and came across a rift in the top bench of Darlton 2 with a howling draught emanating from it. It was like opening a windy fridge. Looking through CotPD, it's not clear if it's an upper link to 'Creep Cave' (buried), one of the 'Farnlesy Lane Quarry …
Gautries, P8 & P7
26/11/16 Evening trip. Originally hoped for a trip into Gautries but we couldn't get the entrance passage un-sumped/unplugged. As we didn't have any dangly kit with us, our backup plans were limited. We decided to trudge over in the freezing cold, now piss wet, to P8 where we ran down to the head of the …
Knotlow
10/11/16 Evening trip. Down the climbing shaft, Waterfall Pitch, and into Waterfall Chamber. Then along the coffin level into Crimbo Pipe. Turned round and back out (Mike, Rob, McBain, David)
Carlswark – Merlin
03/11/16 In Gin Entrance - Rift Sump - short round trip - into Merlin - Shag's Sump - up out Merlin adit entrance. Think we might have broken David. (Mike, Rob, McBain Andy, Ed Samp, David)
Quick trip – White Rake & Merlin
26/10/16 Went to White Rake to check out the new lid and see if the dig was dry. It was. Then over to Merlin to see if the handline we left the other year was still in place. It wasn't. We climbed down anyway and found the streamway was predictably sumped upstream. So we ducked …
Moorwood Sough
16/10/16 Sunday trip up Moorwood Sough, up the danger ladders and a quick nosey about. Rob, Mike and Syd then carried on into Doom. Back out the same way... obviously. (Mike, Rob, Andy T, Syd, Bob G, Michael G, Matt)
Climb, Cave & Walk from the Hut
19/03/16 - 20/03/16 Rob P & Mike P went caving down the Big Dig Series in Carlswark on Saturday afternoon. Food, and a session in the Moon followed. Staying at the hut were Hood, Clowes, Shawcross brothers, Peppit brothers, Walker & Boswell. Sunday’s weather was better than the forecast, and it was truly sunny and …
Carlswark
19/03/16 Quick trip into Carslwark before heading to the hut for food and beer. Rob and I soloed down Eyam Dale shaft and headed off towards Big Dig. Last time we’d been down there we were doing it by candlelight, so the whole place looked quite a bit bigger today. The stream out of Big …
On to the Next One
25/02/16 Just the two of us on a cold Thursday evening this time. We'd previously been back and removed what was left of the hanging death slab earlier in the week, so we could now finally have a proper go at the choke at the end. I set off up Alex Aven as Rob went …
Derbyshire Pennine Club 