Yearly Archives: 2011

Newby Moss Cave Sunday, 27 November 2011 Had been wanting to have a look down this for a while. Newby Moss Cave is a relatively new pothole up near Hurnell Moss Pot which was pushed to a depth of around 120m by the YRC a few years back. Having only the...

Dale Barn Cave Saturday, 12 November 2011 Stuck for something to do I decided to do a trip into the further reaches of Dale Barn via Illusion - a trip i'd quite fancied doing for a while. Steady progress down through illusion and along the brunel rift traverse soon saw me...

Ogof Llyn Parc (Pool Parc) Saturday, 15 October 2011 A trip organised by Christine with the North Wales Caving Club to Ogof Llyn Parc . Its somewhere I've wanted to go for a number of years since Ben went, so I leapt at the chance of a trip. The NWCC planned...

Brown Hill Pot Thursday, 6 October 2011 Another highly enjoyable trip down this gem of a cave - it really has everything - a narrow but straightforward entrance series, route-finding and traversing in a high rift, the spectacular big pitch - Puits Ian Plant, and a short section of easy streamway...

Yockenthwaite Pot Saturday, 24 September 2011 Supposed to be a strans gill trip but still above-normal water levels and threatening weather/rain on walk up meant only a recce of the entrance series for Patrick, Simon and Andy before wandering over to Yockenthwaite Pot to round off the day. Upon arrival, disturbed...

Bar Pot Saturday, 27 August 2011 The morning saw us in the Salford reception before 9. Our van for the day turned out to be a Citroen Dispatch with the handbrake on the wrong side and severely lacking power. It needed full throttle to move off without stalling - maybe the...

St Cuthbert's/Swildon's Friday, 15 July 2011 - Saturday, 16 July 2011 I took the opportunity of a lift down to Mendip and was duly deposited at the Belfry. After a day of walking, Iain from Preston and Mad Phil from the BEC turned up. Phil mentioned that he was digging in...

Meander Cave Saturday, 9 July 2011 Montenegro Expo July 2011. The main objective of this expo was to dive in the terminal sump of PT4 at around 450m depth (discovered last year by Mike B and co). Sadly, after a few days rigging and taking dive gear to the sump, this lead...

Strangle Pot (aka the poo pit) Saturday, 11 June 2011 5.5hr trip down this seldom visited pothole located on fountains fell and also one of the trips that features in the excellent 'Not for the Faint Hearted' guidebook. It was extended back in 95 by the NPC and is now some...

Aygill Caverns Sunday, 5 June 2011 Pleasant afternoon trip down Aygill Caverns visiting the downstream sump before heading up the waterfall series to check out a sump, and heading up the new year series on the way out. A cracking little streamway, plus some big passage at the end of the...

Penyghent Pot Saturday, 7 May 2011 Jason and I, plus Rick Stanton had a quick trip down on thursday evening to rig all the pitches and carry some gear in ready for a push dive. Water levels were very low, and the sump looking continental. 4hr trip with 30mins spent at...

Sleets Gill Thursday, 7 April 2011 It was decided that Sleets Gill would be a good choice as the weather had not been too bad. Paul regaled us with tales of dragging diving bottles through Hydrophobia, which he described as carrying a small stream, but with the main problem being sharp...

Sell Gill Sunday, 20 March 2011 We reached Ingleton reasonably late due to an impressive amount of faff. More faff ensued and by the time we reached Sell Gill it was the afternoon. Chris and I rigged and Egle enjoyed her first underground SRT trip. Once at the bottom we explored...

Craftsmans Pot: The re-opening Saturday, 12 February 2011 After an embarassingly long spell away from craftsmans, 5 day trips during the last week and a half (3 solo, one with my dad, and a final one with Tom baker) has seen the cave re-opened and a new entrance, a ~5-6 m...

Far Waters via Bar Pot Monday, 31 January 2011 Another excellent trip into Far Country and Far Waters of Gaping Gill via Bar Pot, this time heading for the Spiral Aven series and Eastgate. Had a good look round here before heading back out having a quick nosey in Nevada passage...

Poachers Cave (Ogof Hen Ffynnonau) Thursday, 20 January 2011 A quick after-work trip to this North Wales "Novice Classic" - only an hours drive from Manchester. We both expected this to be a short 20min trip, but were pleasantly surprised by the extent and interesting nature of this cave, which invloves a...