Ding Dong Bell Pussy Well Rope
Author: Rachel
Ecton and Edale
Getting back to normal :-)
Ogof Pwll Swnd
Core blimey!
Today we got our first chance to look around the newly completed core store at work! The store is immense. It holds around 10 000 tonnes of rock and brings together 3,000,000,000 years of earth history into one building. The older part of the core store holds a collossal 200 km of onshore core, plus …
In the woods….
Yvette Baker Trophy Final
Back in December we were ready to run the national junior team orienteering competition of the year, the Yvette Baker Trophy Final. Qualifying orienteering teams from around the country had competed in local rounds to win their chance to compete in the final of this premier competition. And then it snowed (a lot). We cancelled …
Ogof Craig a Ffynnon
We spent the weekend getting to know members of Chelsea Spelaelogical Society (CSS) by staying at Whitewalls (their club cottage) in Llangattock. On Saturday we went underground with them into Ogof Craig a Ffynnon… indeed there is no better way to get to know people than in a chocolate heaven. I don’t remember Craig a …
Carlswark Cavern
It’s been a while since we last spent a weekend in Derbyshire, so that was the general plan for the weekend. We took gear for all eventualities (walking, running, caving and orienteering), but ended up walking and caving. Orienteering was excluded from the list pretty early on because the event we had presumed was scheduled …