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Yearly Archives: 2019

Austrian Exploits – Gesaeuse Massif

In September Nadia and I went on an Austrian expedition to the Gesaeuse massif in the eastern part of the Northern Calcareous Alps, the range containing the Dachstein and Loser plateaus where UK expeditions explore each year. This range only began to be explored in 2002 when Eckart Hermann...

County Pot, Mancunian Way Extensions round trip

The poor weather forecast for the weekend combined with the high volume of rain which had been casting a dark shadow over the dales all week forced me to cancel plans first of finishing the Hammer Pot survey and carrying diving gear and secondly of doing Quaking. I was...

Meregill: CHECC Chairperson Yorkshire constituency visit

After a night of merriment and feasting at Bramley Speleo Mansion, which also nearly featured strip poker between Brendan and Fergus, myself and Brendan awoke early-ish to faff ahead of the days caving, with Brendan heading to some easy caves with his friends from Burnley and myself and Big...

Bodengo 2 and 1 – 3 times the charm

The day started relatively early, setting off at 8:30am so some of us could do Bodengo 2 and Puero Terra (cba for spelling) in one day. Our group set off first, however by the time we rigged the first pitch the second group had caught up. Our group headed...

Canyoning Ticino 2019

After dropping out of the ULSA holiday because of a cancelled flight I decided to bankrupt myself further by buying last minute flights to Switzerland for a week of canyoning. Becca and Julian agreed to give me a lift from the Swiss version of Hidden Earth (Sinterlaken).  Arriving at...

Bull Pot of the Witches – An evening trip

After a wet day of caving Easegill I'd very much enjoyed my shower at the farm and had just begun to feel warm and comfortable after dinner. Stood in front of the fire I poured my drink and was chatting with some of the Leeds climbers that were on...

Lancaster to Wretched via The Depot and Flashbang Crawl

Fergus and his girlfriend Sarah wanted to come caving so we arranged to meet at the BPC on Saturday evening. After sampling the delights of Large Pot the day before we decided that a high-level traverse of Easegill Caverns would be a suitable way to introduce Sarah to caving,...

Titan to Peak: Peak Faff

After a quite outrageous fuck-up with the transport, the likelihood of the weekend going ahead was hanging by a thread. Luckily, Shauna, cousin of Higgs-Boson, was willing to drive her parents car for the club and this for the first time ever, with her only being put on the...

Large Pot to Rift Pot: Attempt #1

After some quality nerding in Liverpool, myself and Lydia returned to Aston St where we rendezvous'd with Louise. After managing to persuade her not to drive to Catterick to visit Lil Tony for an overuit exchange, we headed off toward the dales in the pissing rain. The bins provided,...

County to Carrot Chamber via Manchester Bypass

Uploaded on behalf of Hannah: A late start to the day saw us set off from BPF at 13:00 and finally get underground around 13:30. I greatly enjoyed the meanders at the beginning of county before the short pitch. Once I had rigged the pitch, we managed to all get...

Don’t drop the light bulb: Lancaster-WR

After a subdued night of BPOTW and failing to light the fire, we woke up at 8:30, forgetting that the clocks had changed.  A faff free but slow morning saw us at Lancaster hole at 12:45, Hannah rigged quickly, leaving the pitch as a free hang.  Due to the...

Shuttleworth Pot

After a detour through Otley and breakfast pitstop at Bernies we arrived at Bullpot Farm at a bright and early: 12:30pm! Navigating our way to the entrance was quite easy - apart from a slightly dramatic fall in the foliage by Chalmers (why does everyone say Shuttleworth is so...

Lost Johns

Lyndie met us at Inglesport for breakfast before we slid along the road to Leck fell in the mpv.  We split into two groups, those who wanted to do some rigging and those who were indifferent, the latter group followed Sam Alshorn's rigging down centipede.  We got into the...

County-Wretched Monday caving

An efficient 15 minutes at Chapel made for a promising start to the day, followed by finding a pheasant on the road to the farm made it even better.  Realising we forgot to set a call-out, and after a run up a hill failing to find any signal, we...

Hammer Pot

What a way to end 2018, with a spectacular display of efficiency and competence in a final last push to survey, photograph and even dive the unexplored sump in Hammer pot. To my surprise, we had all agreed to meet in the dales at 08:30 on Sunday.

Hammer Pot, Water Butt Sump Dives Part 1

An attempt was made in the final days of 2018 to begin the project to dive Hammer Pot's most recently discovered sump, the Water Butt, found in 2007, but unfortunately water levels were too high for us to want to try and pass Sludge Crawl (less than 10cm airspace...

NYE Easegill Romper and Bro Talk Symposium

Due to a late night wreaking havoc and watching Mike think up schoolboy japes to play around the farm, we had a very leisurely start the next morning. After watching everyone else leave the hut to either go caving or walking, we decided that we couldn't be those people...

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