Climbing, Caving & Hill-Walking
02/01/23 Productive trip. Me at the bottom, Rob and Sampo up in the chamber. Lost count of how many hauls, all just 1:1 with some very heavy bags. Cleared most of the stacked bags and spoil behind them on the west side of the rift, including those Rob and I stacked a while back. Probably …
16/10/22 Four of us went for a sunny evening climb at Stoney followed by a meal at The Moon Saturday night; we awoke in the hut Sunday morning a little worse for wear but breakfast at the Yondermans sorted us out. We dropped Jon off at the Oxlow layby as he was to ride back …
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 …
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 …
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 …
21st March 1954 Leader: H.Barnett Present: D.A.Carr, H.E.Chatburn, B.M.Grainger (and dog), J.D.Grayson, J.R.Hastings, G.Horner, Tony Henchley (visitor) guest of G Horner. Milia tum pransi tria repimus – Horace. The plan of attack for the day was to dig in a sink in the same field as Mountbatten and form an opinion as to whether it …
19th April 1953 Leader: Hastings.Present: Barnett, Carr, Chantry, Chatburn, Colley, Davies, Haythornthwaite, Hide, Horner, Horsburgh, J.Husband, Sissons, Wood.Guests: Pembury (B.E.C.), Tiptaft, Finch. The elements were not at all in keeping with the first morning of British Summer Time when the Leader arrived at the hole with Carr, Pembury and Tiptaft. Although they were half an …
19th - 20th April 1952 Present: J.R.Hastings, Carr, Sissons, Horner, Wood, Davies, Chatburn, Chantry, The Professor, Slack and guest Barnett. The camping party, consisting of the Leader, Carr and their guest Barnett, foregathered at the hole on Saturday afternoon. The hole was laddered and a certain amount of work was done clearing away the results …
Derbyshire Pennine Club 