15/01/2017 The walkers met at 9am as planned on the side road in Hope. The weather was awful – exceedingly wet and windy (sods law, the day before was wonderful) with Kinder at its worst. Most of the paths ran with snow melt and rain water, such that paddling would be a more appropriate term …
Eldon Hole
15/01/17 On the bleakest, wettest, coldest day of 2017 so far, we - when I say "we" I mean McBain - decided to go down Eldon Hole. Rob and I had been down JH West the day before and we arrived slightly late after having had a toasty warm fryup and a brew at the …
JH West – Climbing #2
14/01/17 Another trip to JH to check out the stope beyond Butch Pitch. We got changed in a bitterly cold wind after Rob had managed to reverse his van all the way up the snow covered track to Rowter Farm (for some reason T4's are able to reverse in snow but not able to drive …
Crusader, Oxlow
07/01/17 Good turn out for an impromptu trip down Oxlow. Rob and I had been meaning to see the new stuff at the end of New Oxlow for a while now and Le Gourmand, on a brief visit from across The Channel, wanted to get some caving in whilst he was here so Oxlow was …
JH West – Climbing
29/12/16 For a while now, Glyn has been persuading us to take a look at some unclimbed stuff in JH West. I hadn't been there since he descended Butch Pitch with Phil for the first time about 2 years ago, and my memory of the place was that it was rather muddy and rather loose. …
Stoney Middleton Cave Crawl – Part Trois
18/12/16 This year's cave crawl was again not really in Stoney and actually turned out to not really be a cave crawl - more of a trip into a mine then a halfhearted attempt to crawl into a fox's toilet. The plan was to have a guided tour (thanks to Phil W of the TSG) …
Christmas Candle Cave Part II – Streaks Pot
17/12/16 After wriggling our way through the Dynamite Series with naught but candles last year, we decided to go for something a little wetter to make things a bit more interesting. Seeing as we've done Streaks Pot at least 40 times, we guessed we could probably do it with our eyes closed - or at …
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Jug Holes
01/12/16 Quick evening trip in through the lower adit and out through the top. Followed by a detour down the short climb into the upper series and back out. (Mike, Rob, McBain, David, Rachel)
Streaks Pot tidy up
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 …
Derbyshire Pennine Club 