Heading down to our now local caving area, Mendip (a pleasant 2 hour drive with views of stone henge), Nat and I met up with Mike and Alice for a weekend of caving. On the Saturday, not fancying swildons for the 100th time, Nat, Alice and I drove west to do Manor Farm swallet and […]
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 down by ferrying an SRT […]
Despite feeling knackered after working all day on barely any sleep, Alice and I decided to have a quick mooch down BPoW once we arrived at Bullpot Farm. After the free climb down, we popped our heads around some passages (including a half arsed attempt at climbing up to Robert’s passage – a mixture of my fear […]
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 efficiency and forward thinking on Friday […]
Having decided on doing Simpsons during the drive down the night before to the ULSA dinnermeet weekend with Chris, Adam and Hannah, I was hoping that Saturday morning would be relatively faff free. I’m sure that you will all be shocked to hear that this was not the case. There was the inevitable scrabble for […]
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 therefore in search of an interesting […]
Despite the stupidly late Give It A Go date that the SU shafted us with, we still managed to convince 8 freshers to try their hand at caving. Getting everyone ready at Chapel was relatively painless (even though I still had a bit of a grumble for the sake of it) and after a pit […]
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, and meet her requested trip criteria […]
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 insurance for the sake of enabling […]
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, with the man in Kirby politely […]
