Yearly Archives: 2007

Pippikin Pot Sunday, 23 December 2007 A late start on sunday morning saw us wondering what adventure to embark upon today! John fancied doing Pippikin as he hadn't done it before, and so we decided on a 'proper' trip down the cave, rigging all the pitches and visiting the Pippikin sump...

Southerscales Pot Thursday, 20 December 2007 A fine cave with the entrance in a shallow shallow ~6m from wall with rift in base and tube into bedding at one end. Mr C went first bagless and some fine rigging saw the rope fixed. Millipede crawl was followed but with low water...

Spectacle Pot Wednesday, 19 December 2007 As it has been quite dry recently, I suggested an evening trip down this classic East Kingsdale Grade V. Tom hadn't done it before, and I still had the final pitch to do as on both occasions I've been there (once via vesper and once...

Coolagh Stream Cave Friday, 14 December 2007 We wanted an early start to this fine but wet cave as the weather seemed to be more threatening rain in the afternoons. So little Guinness was drunk the night before and we arose at 7:30. Even though it was a fairly nice day...

Faunarooska Cave Wednesday, 12 December 2007 An epic 15 hour voyage to Co. Clare in Ireland, involving sleeping in a kiddies play area on the ferry in a fort constructed out of soft blocks (we were too stingy to pay for a cabin and it was either this or the deck),...

Giants Hole; Sherbydire Saturday, 24 November 2007 Saturday morning saw around 16 bodies enjoying the delights of breakfast ( and virtually lunch ) at Outside in Hathersage. A planned rival trip originally planned to JH and later Nettle was abandoned and so everyone battled outstanding Derbyshire sunshine and decided to go down...

Marble Steps Pot Wednesday, 7 November 2007 Superb evening trip down this Dales classic, giving the craven ladders an airing... Arrived at the cottage just after 6pm following a quick stop in Settle for a very fine meal of sausage, chips and curry sauce!! As we/I finally decided to do the trip...

Car Pot Saturday, 20 October 2007 As Tom had been eager to do Car Pot for a while now, and I needed someone to hold a flashgun for hours on end, this seemed an excellent opportunity for a trip. Saturday dawned bright and sunny, and a rather sweaty walk saw us to...

Grey Wife Hole Friday, 19 October 2007 The return trip to survey the new extension! Arrived at the entrance at around 4pm, and all went smoothly apart from an 'attack by the wife' leaving me with a slightly bruised and swollen face (that'll teach me for not looking where I'm going!). Continuing on,...

Antofts Windypit Thursday, 11 October 2007 Plan was to take some photos here. This was the second trip to do this since I forgot to put batteries in the camera last time. Mike, Warthog and I went in the Hog transporter from Leeds. This then stopped working and so we had...

Old Ing to Dismal Hill - half the free dive Saturday, 6 October 2007 After our fairly successful fresher meet at Birkwith I got roped into trying the free dive connection between Old Ing and Dismal Hill, whilst Chris and Steve who didn't have wetsuits came along to bypass the sump...

Notts 2 Sunday, 30 September 2007 Very pleasant sunday trip into Notts 2 - a trip I had been wanting to do for ages but hadnt got round to. The entrance shaft was impressive. Both the upstream and downstream sumps were visited and various inlets explored to various degrees. Some of...

Crystal Cave/Dog Hole connection Saturday, 29 September 2007 As it was a CPC meet to Barbondale I took the chance to have a look at the infamous connection between Crystal Cave and Dog Hole, which takes the form of the awkward Barkers Passage leading to an extremely tight squeeze only passable...

Out Sleets Beck Pot Saturday, 22 September 2007 Fine trip down this classic pothole on Penyghent Gill. As I still had the parents landrover (which was reason was over in dales as had to return it 🙁 ), we took advantage of this by driving most of the way to the...

Grey Wife Hole Saturday, 15 September 2007 As both Sam Allshorn and myself had plans in the evening, we decided on a trip down the short but fine Grey Wife Hole on Newby Moss. This trip was to also represent my latest dabbling in the dark art of underground photo-faffing. After a...

Strans Gill Pot Sunday, 9 September 2007 Another fine trip down this classic tight but very well decorated Yorkshire pothole. Met Sam Allshorn and Simon in Hubberholme at around 10.20am, but problems with arranging a call-out meant we weren't up at the entrance until around midday. We then proceeded to get changed...

Pen-y-ghent Pot Saturday, 8 September 2007 9am, Settle - It being some years since the majority of the group had visited PYG, there was some trepidation as the trip began. Would the Settle Down still be in business? Would the bacon still be as deliciously fat as a gammon steak? Fortunately...