Trips & Reports

I wrote this instead of doing my formatives, sorry Simon. - After a delightful day of descending Brewery Shaft, exploring the Coffin Level Mines below, enjoying a lovely Yellow Thai curry, playing on the local park, bruising our hips squeezing through a tyre and imbibing in part 2 of an awesome cheeseboard… the thrill of descending the shaft lured us in once again. Will and I had been excitedly plotting our fourth descent of the weekend since we had emerged from our third... read more

I'd first heard about JH as a huge connecting trip with Titan, so hearing about it as its own trip - let alone one I could do this Saturday - was pretty intimidating. A lot of anticipation built up over the coming few days, I think people (read: Ben) got pretty tired of hearing I was doing it :)) Sunrise, parabellum - the morning of the trip, my alarm tried its hardest to sabotage me but I was up and packed... read more

This was a very exciting trip for a number of reasons: a) none of us had been before, b) I’d heard amazing stories about the formations and c) this was my first time rigging. I think the other three will agree there was a look of absolute terror in my eyes when Rosie suggested that I tried rigging, but I’m pretty glad that she talked me into it, because I had a great time and it wasn’t nearly as scary... read more

The infamous midnight slugword! A couple of failed attempts across the last year brought us here, sitting at the NPC table, eating cheese, dreaming of being in slugword, right now. It’was about 11:20pm on Friday night when Abbie and I finally decided to just go. After failing to convince anyone else to join us, we began to confuse everyone getting/giving/spectating the hair cutting that was happening in the SRT room, by packing our caving gear. Unbeknownst to me, Abbie had... read more

The concept of a midnight cave is just so much more whimsical than a daytime cave… I absolutely love Slugworld, it has one of the few squeezes that I actually enjoy, the thrill of descending Lancs and all the pretties that your heart could desire. It began with a cheeseboard and a dream… despite the cosiness of the NPC, all we could could think about was how awesome it would be to be in a cave, like right then. It was... read more