Trips & Reports
Kevin wrote...
The following may or may not have happened ;) At ten to 8 Kevin and Andy efficiently rolled up at the Shell garage to pick up Mark. After a slight wait we headed to the container to find Ade already parked up and dozing in his car. After waking him up we packed our ropes whilst Mark helpfully took pictures of us stuffing the 160 odd metres of rope and other gear into the bags. By half eight we'd left the... read more
Mark wrote...
Overall, an absolutely fantastic trip! Kev's beat me to it so I'll just add a few bits rather than repeating everything he wrote! The day started fairly badly, having not had much sleep, being slightly achy from a day's digging and having a horrible cold, but the smell of damp caving gear increased my enthusiasm no end and off I went to the Shell garage to await my lift from Andy & Kev. 20 mins and a phonecall later they turned... read more
20 photos by Mark...
Imogen wrote...
A lazy day in Lancaster in lovely Easegill for a gentle potter about. After quite an efficient start to the day we drove to Bull Pot Farm, passing by lots of flooded rivers and having to negotiate a partly flooded road down to BPF. As a result we decided that Lancaster was our only option really in Easegill, especially when we saw the huge amount of water gushing down Bull Pot of the Witches and the fact we'd only brought... read more
Nicola wrote...
A nice fun easy trip, pretty river in the main chamber bit and a very unusual ladder climb (monkey man rigging). The wet crawly bit was unpleasant, but it was quite pretty after that. Found two toads at the bottom of the ladder which si then carefully stowed in his tackle sack and gently carried out! (talking to them all the way :s ). Also we had tea and lovely cake in the cave! this should be done in EVERY... read more
Matt wrote...
A fairly easy and not too inspiring day out, but a nice cave to tick off your Mendip wish list. Entrance is locked concrete shaft in deep shakehole in farmers field, ask permission and for the key at the farm (very nice people). Entrance drops down a few easy short pitches and from there its more or less horizonal all the way, a combination of rift, trickling stream passage, a few climbs but nothing too spectacular or pretty.... read more
16 photos by Gary...
Andy wrote...
This was hardwork! I agree with the description of this being a 'foreboding place'. Thank goodness we managed to find the way around the round trip otherwise it would have been a lot of effort and not much success!
Nicola wrote...
We split into a girly and smelly boy trip at the entrance, its not often we get girly trips!:) A lot wetter than when we were last there-makes finding the route to waterfall chamber a bit easier! lots of fun waterfall climbs where you couldnt avoid getting a face full of waterfall! Caught the boys up at the ladder and proceeded down towads the sump. Unfortunately marianna had got very cold by this point due to lack of neofleece and... read more
Gary wrote...
A supurb and very unusual cave. We've heard so much about this cave during our work on the Moors but never had a chance to visit it to the end. Some interesting flooded passage and cross-rifts (with very little air space!) lead to an amazing stream passage. The cave even includes a fun zero airspace duck! At the end is The Font which is a large deep pool with water welling up from below. We spent some time digging beyond... read more
Matt wrote...
Great to finally get round to doing Bogg Hall. After a lovely sunny change outside Richards house we took a short walk to the actual resurgence entrance to wet our wetsuits. The entrance is a low archway bellowing water out. Upstream the River Dove was completely dry. The low archway goes in for a couple of metres before walls are reached and the floor lowers into the sumped passage (approximately 10-15m) into Bogg Hall. Not... read more
Andy wrote...
The entrance series is tight!
Ellie wrote...
Like what Matt says, excellent trip. The entrance series is a lot tighter than I thought it would be, up there with Large Pot in terms of getting-stuckedness. Going through head first is worse, I think. First pitch was also pretty jammed, oh the benefits of being little! Just as the guide-book says, the final two pitches have loose stuff, all of which would fall pretty much in the line of the rigging, and the rubble pile at the bottom is... read more
Kevin wrote...
This wasn't just Carlswark, oh no, it was bigger. And Better. Caves done: Bosson Hole (through trip) Mine Level No.2 (three level, entered bottom) Keyhole Cave (through trip) Mine Level No.3 (short and sweet) Mine Level No.10 (under Ivy Green, big chamber, could try to climb up rift) Mine Level No.4 (really quite big, good fun) Carlswark Gin Carlswark Resurgence (very, very muddy) More to come...
Andrew wrote...
This was the first caving trip for the mini! A Mini Adventure :p
Nicola wrote...
Bit of a short sunday trip due to lack of enthusiasm! My dad's been going on about this cave for years so its good to finally have done (some of) it. Short entrance pitch by the dry riverbed (ladder would have been better) then some crawling through muddy pools til it widens up a bit into a largeish bouldery passage, a fixed rope climb down a muddy bit (photographic evidence that the ropes have been there for at least 30... read more
Nicola wrote...
A fantastic trip! Thank you very much to our guides and winchers :) and to lauren for organising it! Very efficient start as we had to be there at 9.30 (almost too efficient due to andy g putting the kettle on at half 6!), and a lovely sunny day. They had put the winch up when we arrived, so after some peering down the hole we nominated gary's car to go first and test it :) they went off to change... read more
Laz wrote...
I think Nikki has summed up most of it but I'll write some more because I'm bored! :) We arrived at the entrance which is right nice and close to the side of the road to find that the entrance scaffold had already been erected. All we knew was that the entrance was somewhere up the top of a hill and that there would be cars parked nearby. Without the cars, it would have been a right pain to find because... read more
14 photos by Gary...
Nicola wrote...
Really efficient, quick trip. Prettier than i remember. Lots of stomping along in huge passages until stop pot, where we had tea and cheese strings and very broken crisps :) then wiggly wretched rabbit and out. Much fun. I like tea in caves.