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Yearly Archives: 2007

Lizard Pot

Lizard Pot Saturday, 7 July 2007 Minor extension made - 3m of rather muddy passage was gained after coaxing two shot hole out of a shit drill battery and capping them creating an awkward squeeze. Further hole could have been coaxed from the battery but the protective matting for around the...

Lizard Pot

Lizard Pot Sunday, 1 July 2007 Lizard Pot Mike had been on about visiting it for some time and with it not likely to flood it was worth a visit. We aimed to rescale an aven and look at an old CPC dig. Chris and Tom so they could say that they went...

Coniston Copper Mines

Coniston Copper Mines Wednesday, 27 June 2007 Some (blurry) photos from our trip to the Coniston Copper Mines. Had a look in Hospital Level first, which can be followed a fair distance until the passage ends somewhere under Levers Water. Particularly exciting were the sections where the floor had collapsed revealing...

Langstroth through trip

Langstroth through trip Sunday, 10 June 2007 A craven club meet down Langstroth Pot gave me the ideal chance to do a trip I'd quite fancied doing for a while - the through trip to Langstroth Cave. After a slight delay involving myself going to inglesport to hire a reliable light...

Broken Finger Pot

Broken Finger Pot Saturday, 9 June 2007 Excellent trip down this relatively recent addition to East Kingsdale. A relaxed start saw us in Inglesport for breakfast where we discovered there were to be naked ladies in the ireby sump for a new suss calender. However, we restrained ourselves and set off...

Dismal Hill to visit the ends and enter via the new entrance

Dismal Hill to visit the ends and enter via the new entrance Wednesday, 6 June 2007 Sam Allshorn and Mike C came up from Skipton and Team Berlingo came from somewhere else. Mike C and I applied lots of neoprene whilst Tom proclaimed he didnt need any extra as he had...

A week in the Felix Trombe

A week in the Felix Trombe Friday, 25 May 2007 - Sunday, 3 June 2007 A fun-filled week of caving in the longest cave in France, being well over 100km in length with around 45 entrances and a vertical range of over 1000m. Arrived in the pissing rain on saturday 26th, and...

Alum Pot 240 hang/ NW route

Alum Pot 240 hang/ NW route Sunday, 20 May 2007 Beardy and Helen were invited along as they had done many big ladder climbs before and so Beardy set about tying a web of rope between the trees to allow us to move ever closer to the edge of the pot....

Dowbergill Passage

Dowbergill Passage Sunday, 6 May 2007 Another highly organised and well planned trip started with me supposedly picking up Martin at 12, but couldn't decide what to do as was raining a little. Decided to do Dowbergill passage as someone at work had been going on about how it was his...

Crescent Pot

Crescent Pot Saturday, 5 May 2007 Excellent trip down another fine East Kingsdale classic! Reached the entrance at around 1pm after spending far too much money in inglesport replacing knackered bits of kit, and for Tom, purchasing a neofleece. Quickly rigged entrance pitches, then down some very impressive shoring (comprising rotten timbers and...

Large Pot – Red Herring

Large Pot - Red Herring Monday, 30 April 2007 The four set off via inglesport for a bap for Nick as he hadn't eaten. A slightly less heavy night than the one before but still quite a lot was drunk. All got changed and set off up the hill, than I...

Toyland Surveying and 3D Photography Trip

Toyland Surveying and 3D Photography Trip Sunday, 29 April 2007 After the successful surveying workshop the previous day, and a long breakfast in Ingleton, it was finally decided to go back to Valley Entrance and have a leisurely trip up into Toyland. I had a new 3D cave photography setup to...

Fossil Pot

Fossil Pot Saturday, 28 April 2007 After a heavy night at the NPC where the weekend's supply of beer was consumed and various chairs were damaged or destroyed, most of us awoke to sore heads and queasy stomachs. With everyone disappearing to various potholes, myself and Patrick headed over to Grassington and...

KMC – Rowten Sumps

KMC - Rowten Sumps Saturday, 28 April 2007 Arriving a little late at 4pm to join the surveying parties up on west kingsdale and finding the Greenclose locked, I decided to go for a quick jaunt down Valley Entrance to kill some time. The water levels were quite low, and at the...

Vulcan Pot route, Nick Pot

Vulcan Pot route, Nick Pot Tuesday, 3 April 2007 Fun evening trip down Nick Pot via the less frequently visited Vulcan Pot route, which includes the 2nd deepest underground pitch in the country (after Titan I believe). After meeting Tom in Horton, drove up to South House Farm, which allows the allotment...

Giant’s Cave (Malvern Hills)

Giant's Cave (Malvern Hills) Sunday, 11 March 2007 A tough trip to explore what is arguably one of the most difficult caves in Herefordshire. A gruelling walk-in to the entrance, located near the summit of the highest point in the county. Once there we were lucky to meet another explorer who...

Boggarts Roaring Holes

Boggarts Roaring Holes Friday, 9 March 2007 Almost two weeks without caving (a rarity for myself) meant I jumped at the chance to join Tom and Ben for their friday afternoon trip. Ben suggested Boggarts, a pothole on Dowlass Moss close to Trapdoor which was extended in 2001 and now offers...

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