Cincinnati Museum Climb Saturday, 11 October 2008 The annual “Batfest” at the Cincinnati Museum provides an invitation for the local cavers to rig ropes from the top of the >35m high dome of the museum to put on a display of prussiking, rappelling and other fun stuff. The ropes are rigged through small holes in […]

Millers Pit 2, Rock Castle County, Kentucky, USA Saturday, 6 September 2008 Having made contact with the local cavers I met up with them at the Great Saltpetre Preserve (GSP). The GSP comprises a 17th Century mined cave that they have turned into a showcave and the surrounding 300 acres of beautiful countryside. The GSP […]

Yordas ULSA Kids trip Monday, 27 August 2007 A family trip to Yordas for the next generation of ULSA Kids being prepared by their 1980s ULSA creators. Anyone got any tight leads that need pushing? Comments Bottom of Car Pot. A hole between boulders in Marble Sink. I’ll return all the bits if I break […]

Titan To Peak: Rob’s Birthday trip Saturday, 3 February 2007 An early morning rendezvous in Castleton on a clear day with a very hard frost led to breakfast at the TSG hut before setting off up the hill to the Titan entrance shaft which is easily identified by the enormous pile of spoil and is […]

Lancaster Hole Saturday, 7 October 2006 Another Old Gits caving trip, this time with the objective of going in Lancaster Hole and coming out of Wretched Rabbit. We arrived at Bull Pot farm to find lots of NPC types expecting to go on Bert’s birthday trip but who hadn’t been told that it had been […]

Old Gits Simpsons pull through Sunday, 27 August 2006 Just to prove that caving actually does take place at the Old Gits annual bank holiday BBQ; Tim, the Ians and Rob did a pull through of Simpsons. The trip got underway typically slowly with a start in the Inglesport caff and a quick trip into […]