Sterling Adventures

After a night camping near Castleton which provided the first wet weather test for a tent I had bought on the day of Pete’s wedding, I met Rachel and Richard for breakfast. We then drove to the TSG hut to sort out a trip into Peak cavern.

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One of the blog’s authors, Colin (aka Colon), is joint author of the new Cave Diving Group’s (CDG) manual for cave diving…

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The plan for today was to dive in Tucks Rift. The weather forecast that had predicted the dry spell would end on Friday had been wrong, sadly so had the forecast that had predicted the weather front would come across late on Saturday…

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After a damp week in Derbyshire Saturday brought some very heavy rain, enough to scupper any distant plans we had of caving; either wet or dry. After a meeting on the Saturday night me, Marcus and Chris agreed to head over to Holme Bank Chert Mine on the edge of Bakewell for some practice and [...]

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After the post on the recent trip to Doom’s Retreat Pete asked if any of the photographs Clive took would be available. Clive has kindly agreed to this…

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In the back end of the Devils Arse show cave (formally known as Peak Cavern) lies Doom’s Retreat. Reached by diving through Ink Sump it has been the site of a great deal of digging effort by several teams of diggers over many years…

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Since last weeks disappointment we had found out from the land owner that in the week before our previous dive attempt a farmer further up the valley had sprayed the bracken in his fields. In light of this information we now assume that it was the chemical that had stained the water…

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After the previous dive at Tucks Rift both of us (Andy and Colin) had high hopes for the day’s trip…

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