Yearly Archives: 2016

Simpsons: a quick jaunt Sunday, 30 October 2016 A quick blast through simpsons to dispel the hangovers of last night and avoid cleaning up. Started walking at about 1 feeling very ill. Underground about 20 minutes later, only to find that the 60m of rope carried for pulling through was not...

Giants Hole - Lower Series Round Trip Sunday, 23 October 2016 This trip was beset by a number of unavoidable organisational issues but all were resolved in the end. The morning came swiftly and everyone had eaten, a good start. This proved to be very important later on as the half-hour...

The Main Attraction at Ingleton Waterfalls Trail Saturday, 22 October 2016 Sacking off caving because caving is shite we all decided to go to the Ingleton Waterfalls trail for some excellent canyon action. In addition, professional kiwi tramper Ivanhoe was getting withdrawal from not standing in a river and so required...

Mr Breley Gets Busy in the Kitchen Friday, 21 October 2016 14:31: Gerge Brocolli sited at the sink washing up. Noted. Fattia surprised. Images 'I'm going to do the washing up now. Ver badly' Posted by: Wob Rotson Size: 71kb Width: 450 pixels Height: 600 pixels Posted: 21 October 2016

Penyghent Pot: Rebolting 10th Pitch and Eerie Pot, then more Saturday, 8 October 2016 Sam Allshorn had messaged me the day before asking if I would like to go on the trip with him, requesting an early start of 6:30am (if I had received comms before departing Leeds for Penyghent I...

Crashing a DCU Freshers Trip Friday, 7 October 2016 - Sunday, 9 October 2016 After several months of not caving, enough was enough so I contacted Richard Cole, coincidentally working in Castlebar; who invited me on a DCU freshers trip. After a challenging phone conversation, I messaged Richard an address to...

Giving it a Go - Coppy Gill Exit Sunday, 2 October 2016 Turned up late to chapel, obviously there was still much faffing so no one noticed. Wrestled K. Brook because he thought that I was hiding his fire extinguisher. Kristian almost fulfilled his dream of having his very own small...

Trapdoor Pot attempt 1 Wednesday, 28 September 2016 We decided that caving midweek needed to be done. With George finding some work lifting logs with Peachey, I had to recruit a new driver in the form of Mr Walker. Alice was up for it, and after a few pints at the...

Bar Pot on Ladders and a Henslers round trip to Bar Pot Aven Saturday, 24 September 2016 After the exploits of the day before, everyone was a bit tired and I awoke at 10. After 'egginabap' for breakfast we were confronted by an angry Staffroom who demanded we go to Claphamin...

Newby Moss Friday, 23 September 2016 After and excellent introductory talk and far too much boozing, we were all set for a very faffy day. Rob and I awoke to the realization that we had overslept and were meant to meet Carl at the chapel 5 mins ago. After rushing upstairs,...

Beware The Technicolour Bin Burglar Friday, 23 September 2016 Sighted in Settle coop at ~21:00 - 23/09/2016 - A man wearing an unsightly multicoloured jacket with mud on his face to conceal his identity approached a coop employee demanding bin-bound bread and making obnoxious noises. Settle coop ~21:30 - 24/09/2016 - The Sam Allshorne...

Agen Allwedd Grand Circle Sunday, 11 September 2016 Foreword: thanks for Mike Butcher in remembering the trip and assisting greatly in the rant write up. After the mishap of 2014, I was quite determined to be prepared for this trip. We stopped off in Newport City Library (a characterful venue) to print...

Kristian's Bulgaria Trip Tuesday, 6 September 2016 All in all it was a good trip with only one night of being chased by dogs. I arrived in Sofia airport at 1 o'clock in the morning looking for a place to sleep so I set off down the nearest dark road in order...

Not At All Balls Deep in Large Pot Saturday, 3 September 2016 It had been raining for a few days and more was scheduled so Rowan suggested that going down Large to the bottom of Necropolis was a good wet weather option. We set of from Leeds pretty early and picked...

Prov to Dow Friday, 19 August 2016 In Kettlewell at around 11. After changing we went up the wrong track and had to roll down a hill until we reached the correct path. En route to the cave Amy was mildly traumatised after witnessing a rabbit being killed by a weasel....

Penyghent Pot - Friday 13th Series Tuesday, 16 August 2016 An early start was needed for this one, and I was up at 7. At 8, we were in the KA and enroute to Brackenbottom via Settle for some snickers. The whole thing was going pretty well until, when getting changed...

Eurospeleo Saturday, 13 August 2016 - Saturday, 20 August 2016 With an excellent weather forecast for the majority of the week and over 1200 delegates for the week, Eurospeleo was sure to be one of the major events of the UK caving calendar for the year. It did not disappoint. After...