Yearly Archives: 2015

SUSS Holiday Sunday, 14 June 2015 - Friday, 3 July 2015 Day 1: Travel Burnley -> Leeds -> London -> Stanstead -> Bilbao -> Matienzo. After a night of sleeping in Stanstead airport, and very rainy drive over from Bilbao airport, we arrived at the Matienzo campsite, (Thanks for driving Jeff!). The campsite was...

Birks Fell Cave Saturday, 30 May 2015 For once, the forecast was good for the day we had the permit for. There was a reasonable level of interest for this trip so we split into two groups. Our derigging group met at the Chapel at 9:30 and proceeded to Wharfedale. The dale...

Callaun 2 Sunday, 5 April 2015 - Monday, 6 April 2015 Despite the fact I'd finished most of my alcohol the night before I still managed to get so drunk that I was (apparently) wondering around declaring my intention to climb the tree (but not able to say the word tree),...

Doolin River Cave, St. Catherines (1) to Fisherstreet Pot Saturday, 4 April 2015 After a drink filled night (Irish student cavers seem to drink Buckfast...a particularly disgusting choice that isn't even that cheap) I woke to find chaos everywhere and various people wanting to to caving (but just sitting and eating). Out...

Boggarts Roaring Saturday, 28 March 2015 With Kristian feeling unwell I joined the boggarts team. Trip started with a bang as Luke dropped tacklebag down pitch onto rather unwell looking sheep. Splat. Awkward rigging positions and annoying crawls were the main theme with several pitches requiring 'awkward' negotiations' over the pitch...

Dachstein Training Weekend Friday, 27 March 2015 - Sunday, 29 March 2015 The journey down was most interesting and educational, with stops to admire Luke's duck/Rob calling ability, Dan's rock skimming talent and to fully understand the contrast between cheery Tania and depressing Rob. An entire chicken and loaf of bread...

Pippikin Pot to Wretched Rabbit - Reversing Descriptions Monday, 23 March 2015 Meant to write this up closer the time but failed. The notorious route finding involved with big Ease Gill through trips (e.g. Pip to Top Sink) has often put me off leading trips that span the system, preferring to...

Post NCHECC Easegill Wanderings Sunday, 22 March 2015 - Tuesday, 24 March 2015 NCHECC was over for all except five hardy individuals who stayed out until Tuesday, those cavers being me, Mike, Sarah, George and Brendan. After a day of being indoors at the Bradford, Mike, Brendan and I fancied an...

Alpha Strike Team - Lost Johns' to Death's Head Saturday, 7 February 2015 This is the de-brief report of Alpha Strike Team, aka. the guys capable of being sentient before midday. Having decided, the night before, to terminate my trip with the rest of the students, and tag along with Noel and...

Paul Pot Memorial Trip 2015: Bravo assault team Saturday, 7 February 2015 Despite it being Ribiccas last few days in Leeds, this was a cracking weekend and one to remember. It began on Friday evening after training in Old Bar, when Sarah Parker got horrendously pissed early on and inspired us...

Ireby Fell Saturday, 31 January 2015 After the misshapes of South Wales; it had been decided to have one of the most organised caving trips in ULSAs 50 year history , this unfortunately was not to be. With this on mind the trip was planned. Starting times to the extreme of...

South Wales 2015 Friday, 23 January 2015 - Sunday, 25 January 2015 After one and a half hours of waiting for Shannon and a detour to pick Ann up from Birmingham, we eventually made it to the very cosy westminister at 12:30am. The party was already in full swing, Cardiff was...

Providence to Dow Cave Thursday, 8 January 2015 The idea of this trip was to be slick, with Mike optimistically wanting to be in a cave early doors. Providence Pot to Dow Cave requires no rigging and at stream level is fairly easy to navigate, lending itself to slickness. The black...