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Yearly Archives: 2008

Asopladeru La Texa – Day 4 – Aven extensions and exit

Asopladeru La Texa - Day 4 - Aven extensions and exit Friday, 18 July 2008 We got up bright and early (well early at least) on this final day of our camping trip, in order to fit everything in. The plan was to first re-ascend the aven, photograph the formations above,...

Asopladeru La Texa – Day 3 – Phreatic labyrinth

Asopladeru La Texa - Day 3 - Phreatic labyrinth Thursday, 17 July 2008 On the Thursday morning, Tony and Steve prepared for their long prussic out (I was originally supposed to go with them but managed to wangle another night underground). More rope, rigging gear, chorizo, cheese and toilet roll was...

Asopladeru La Texa – Day 2 – Upper Streamway extensions

Asopladeru La Texa - Day 2 - Upper Streamway extensions Wednesday, 16 July 2008 I awoke at the Sala Osten camp as fresh as a daisy, ready for another adventure filled day. Tony Seddon was also at camp - he'd been diving the downstream sump in the upper streamway - reached...

Asopladeru La Texa – Day 1 – Entrance and aven climb

Asopladeru La Texa - Day 1 - Entrance and aven climb Tuesday, 15 July 2008 I was exceptionally fortunate to wangle my way onto this 4 day pushing trip down a system of 1060m total depth. This was within a day of my being at expedition surface camp, after doing no...

Lost Johns Cave

Lost Johns Cave Monday, 14 July 2008 Very pleasant 3hr solo trip to the downstream sump via centipede route, for a bit of training. Arrived at horton at around 3pm and packed up 200m of 10/11mm into two large craven bags before heading to a very misty leck fell. Underground around...

Little Hull Pot

Little Hull Pot Saturday, 14 June 2008 Pleasant late-afternoon trip down Little Hull to have a poke around the bottom and see if there's anything worth digging. Spent a couple of hours digging a boulder-choke at the end of an inlet close to the downstream sump, then headed out. Virtually no...

Otter Hole

Otter Hole Sunday, 8 June 2008 After meeting in monmouth for a slap-up meal in Kings Kebabs......where only dan, henry and myself were brave enough to Sam Allshornple the triple quarter-pounder that is the king burger, we scurried off to the campsite near Trellech to set up tents, but it was...

Hammer Pot

Hammer Pot Sunday, 25 May 2008 An excellent trip down Hammer Pot on Fountains Fell. An efficient start saw the group at the entrance at around 10.30am(ish) and good progress made through the entrance series, which is certainly in need of a good wash.....rather smelly! Stemple Rift proved to be easier than...

Echo Pot

Echo Pot Saturday, 17 May 2008 Another trip into Echo to move some scaf and 71 scaf joints to the dig at the bottom. Due to the dry weather, the duck was really low and the water clear.....never seen that before. However, it smelt worse than normal, no doubt due to...

Hensler’s Pot

Hensler's Pot Saturday, 3 May 2008 Tom was found on Sat morning in the thief desperately trying to finish his chips and sausages in time to make it in time for a clean-up trip in dowbergill passage and so avoid abuse from a certain member of said trip. However, faced with the...

Growling Hole-Fatboy Slim

Growling Hole-Fatboy Slim Saturday, 19 April 2008 A fine trip to the bottom after Tom described in detail the affects of falling over 70m down a vertical shaft whilst i was hanging from bolts over the 70m black void. The main outcome after Tom's description can be summarised as a gooey...

I’ll pay you to tresspass on my land AKA Sheep tipping

I'll pay you to tresspass on my land AKA Sheep tipping Thursday, 3 April 2008 An evening on Fountains fell started fine with the farmer passing us and heading into the field we were just about to walk across without permission. Once at the Echo Pot field having not seen the...

Clapham Bottoms Pot – Troubled Waters Series

Clapham Bottoms Pot - Troubled Waters Series Sunday, 30 March 2008 After a 'particularly' heavy night at the Helwith, a short caving trip was required to cure the nasty hangover. I'd been keen to visit clapham bottoms pot ever since hearing about the WRCPC breakthrough into the Troubled Waters Series. After tom...

Eastwater – West end series

Eastwater - West end series Sunday, 23 March 2008 Excellent 3hr trip to Regent Street in the west end series. Quite a varied trip with plenty of crawling, a few narrow bits, the nice ladder pitch of Dolphin Pot and some interesting-shaped passage - in particular Soho with its roof pendants....

Daren Cilau – Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Daren Cilau - Restaurant at the End of the Universe Saturday, 22 March 2008 - Sunday, 23 March 2008 This epic trip had been months in the planning. By this I mean someone mentioned it a few months ago and I spent most of Thursday afternoon at work trying to organise...

Swildon’s Nine

Swildon's Nine Saturday, 22 March 2008 Another late night and plenty of beer resulted in waking up feeling rather grim again. Mendip beer doesn't seem to agree with me! Today we planned to go to sump 9, a trip I'd fancied doing since getting a copy of the excellent swildons book. The...

Priddy Green Sink

Priddy Green Sink Friday, 21 March 2008 Drove down to mendips on the thursday night and proceeded to get drunk and wake up feeling rather grim on friday morning. Gordon Coldwell offered to take us on a trip down Priddy Green and out through Swildons as he'd done it before. A...

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