Trips & Reports

Pie?

Fairly straightforward to the bottom but derigging from the sump to the top via adamsons route took about 5 hours and made the trip a bit more difficult than we were expecting for Notts. After reaching the surfaces with lights dimming and bodies aching we were looking forward to a quick walk back to the car and some food and drink at the NPC. Leck Fell had other ideas and we spent an hour groping our way slowly accross the... read more

After water and an uncertain forecast made a retreat sensible a couple of weeks ago I was keen to return and finish this route. As the sky was blue and the stream-flood exchange was full I thought that now was the time so off we went. We were soon at the cave and before long I was where I left off, rigging the main pitch. This is a really great section of cave and really feels 'in the thick of... read more

A leisurely Sunday trip, armed with a survey, with the aim of exploring various side passages, joining together some of the sections along the usual route near the entrance. This mostly involved going round in circles a lot in order to choose the passages we hadn't been down before, but it was good when we got to junctions that we recognised and so could piece it all together. The route: White arch series, followed by a few figure of 8s, then... read more

A brilliant route in a classic cave! From the opposite end of the Rowten pothole to the eyehole, a bolt on the top of a low rock leads to another one on a big boulder at the edge of a jumbled slope of boulders in the top of the gully. As you face the eyehole, abb down left past a mossy slab for a couple of metres. Stooping under the slab leads to the Rowten Cave water, but the way... read more

Mike's new favourite cave. We weren't feeling any motivation for a "proper" trip, as me and Caitlin were rather bruised from Trapdoor the previous day. Dunno what the boys' excuses were - utter lameness I suspect. Someone (Mandy?) suggested Skirwith to us. An ex-show cave? Sounds perfect! Took forever to find, even with a description; it's very well hidden unless you're looking from the right angle. Almost certainly spent more time combing the field in the rain than we did underground. Fun... read more

The important thing to note from this trip is that, although the Black Book puts the estimated trip time at approx 2 h longer than that for Boggarts, we were back at the car and changed before the other group re-appeared. Efficiency in motion. Us, competitive? Nah ;) (I think to be fair think this was mostly due to Jeff and Mandy's speedy rigging/de-rigging though) Cracking trip :)

It's possibly got something to do with me throwing my helmet down one of the Boggarts pitches, and Andy trying to upstage me by doing likewise with his whole SRT kit down a pitch we didn't even want to go down... ;)

Excuses excuses :p

OK.

Super awesome end to Christmas meal. Scum of 3 due to the massive waterfall which Chad assures me isn't usually there! All round awesome trip though!

Brown Hill keeps its reputation! After a brew at the NPC we proceeded to stand in the snow for half an hour or so, trying to work up the enthusiasm to get changed. Evan had forgotten his undersuit and turned down Chad's so he was changed pretty quickly and waiting for the rest of us to faff around with gear. A LONG walk up the hill, found us in the wrong field and we wandered back to find some CNCC... read more

Florby FlimP, in a blimP.

Florby FlimP, in the BlimP.